Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 28:23
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
23. wounded be judged ] Rather: shall fall, or, fall thick, if the word be read as an intensive. The judgments on Zidon shall bring home to her that there is a great God and that He has sent them. This God is Jehovah God of Israel, God alone. The prophet speaks from his own belief.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 23. And the wounded] chalal, the soldiery. All its supports shall be taken away, and its defenders destroyed.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I will send; the pestilence is one of Gods arrows, and he sends it wheresoever it walks; it is one of his sore judgments, and wasteth where it cometh.
Pestilence; the most dreadful of diseases, because most deadly, swift, and comes so immediately from the wrath of God offended with men; this pestilence attends on war, and seldom faileth to make havoc in besieged towns or cities.
Blood; bloody war by an enemy, that shall bring the war to the gates, nay, into the streets of Zidon.
Be judged; fall, be cast down, punished, in the midst of the city.
By the sword; by her enemys sword prevailing and conquering.
On every side; a description either of the siege that Zidon should suffer by, or pointing out the multitude of her enemies on every side agreeing against her.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets,…. The plague and the sword, which are two of God’s sore judgments, and often go together; the pestilence slays them that are within, and the sword those the enemy meets with in the streets:
and the wounded shall be judged; that is, punished; or “shall fall” w, die and perish:
in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; this was literally fulfilled in Zidon, either by Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldean army, which besieged it on every side; or by Artaxerxes Ochus the Persian, who took it, and destroyed it; and will have its accomplishment on the antichristian states, eastern and western, when the vials shall be poured out upon them, Re 16:1:
and they shall know that I am the Lord God; who am able to foretell things to come, and to accomplish them.
w , Sept.; “corruent”, Pagninus, Vatablus; “cadet”, Montanus; so Kimchi and Ben Melech; and which is approved of by Gussetius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
23. Be judged R.V., “fall.” (See on “pestilence and blood,” Eze 5:12, Eze 14:19.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 28:23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 23. For I will send into her. ] These are God’s evil angels.
And the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
gathered. Reference to Pentateuch (Deu 30:3, Deu 30:4). See also Eze 11:17; Eze 20:41; Eze 34:13; Eze 36:24; Eze 37:21; Eze 39:27. Lev 26:44, Lev 26:45. Psa 106:47. Isa 11:11, Isa 11:12, Isa 11:13; Isa 11:27, Isa 11:12, Isa 11:13. Jer 30:18; Jer 30:31, Jer 30:8-10; Jer 32:37. Hos 1:11. Joe 3:7. Amo 9:14, Amo 9:15. Oba 1:17-21. Zep 3:19, Zep 3:20. App-92.
sanctified. Compare Eze 28:22, Eze 36:23; Eze 38:23. Isa 5:16.
heathen = nations.
then shall, &c. Compare Eze 36:28; Eze 37:23. Jer 23:8; Jer 27:11.
in their land = on their soil.
given, &c. See Gen 28:13; and ep. note on Gen 50:24.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I will send: Eze 5:12, Eze 38:22, Jer 15:2
and they shall: Eze 25:7, Eze 25:11, Eze 25:17, Eze 26:6
Reciprocal: Jer 25:22 – Zidon Eze 6:7 – and ye Eze 28:24 – and they
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 28:23. Pestilence (disease) and the sword (warfare) were to be brought upon the city of Zidon, This was to be accomplished through the services of some other strange people whom God would use as his agency in the matter.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
28:23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her {m} by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
(m) That is Nebuchadnezzar.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
God would send disease, bloodshed, and soldiers against Sidon, and many of her people would die in her streets (cf. 6:11-12; 14:21). This would teach the Sidonians that God is the Lord.