Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 33:3
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
3. The trumpet was the signal of danger, Hos 8:1; Amo 3:6; Jer 6:1.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The sword of the enemy, or any other danger which he may foresee in any of the causes or forerunners of it.
Come, i.e. coming, approaching to the land.
Blow the trumpet; sound the alarm: the sound of the trumpet is a warning, yet to this sometimes it is necessary to add a warning by word of month, and tell the people brought together by the trumpet what he seeth.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
3. the swordinvaders. Anappropriate illustration at the time of the invasion of Judea byNebuchadnezzar.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
If what he seeth the sword come upon the land,…. Or those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; as soon as he observes a body of armed men, more or less, marching towards the borders of the land with a manifest intention to enter and invade it:
he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; warn the people by blowing the trumpet, the signal agreed on; by which they would understand that an enemy was at hand, or danger near; or warn them by word of mouth, as well as by the trumpet, where he could do it, and when it was necessary.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 33:3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Ver. 3. He blow the trumpet. ] Hence the ancients a infer that a bishop must preach, and that Praelati officium est sollicitudo non celsitudo. He taketh upon him the office of a constant preacher, saith Gregory, that undertaketh to be a minister.
a Clemens, Bernard.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the sword = judgment. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of the Effect), App-8, for that which executes the judgment.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
he blow: Eze 33:8, Eze 33:9, Neh 4:18, Neh 4:20, Isa 58:1, Jer 4:5, Jer 6:1, Jer 51:27, Hos 8:1, Joe 2:1, Amo 3:1-15, Amo 6:1-14, 1Cor. 14, 1Co 8:1-13
Reciprocal: Num 10:9 – then ye shall Neh 9:26 – cast thy law Psa 19:11 – Moreover Jer 6:10 – give Amo 3:6 – a trumpet Mat 3:7 – who Mat 25:3 – foolish 1Co 15:52 – last 1Th 5:14 – warn
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 33:3. The duty of this watchman is to be always on the alert and observe any approach of the enemy. When he sees such a danger he is to blow a warning signal with the trumpet to notify the citizens that danger is near.