17<\/strong>. say, Sword, go through<\/em> ] This rendering assumes a grammatical anomaly. Rather, the sword shall go<\/strong> through.<\/p>\n Eze 14:19-20<\/em><\/span>. The pestilence.<\/p>\n He is Lord of hosts, and hath the militia of all the world in his hand, the sword is the right of the King of kings. <\/P> Bring a sword; raise war, and send enemies to invade it. That land; what land soever it be. <\/P> Go through the land: though inanimate things have not ears to hear, yet God speaks of them sometimes as if they had ears to hear, and understanding to discern; hereby intimating to us his overruling power, wisdom, justice, and sovereignty. <\/P> So that I cut off man: men cut off men in war, yet here God takes it to himself, he doth it by men. <\/P> And beast: though wars chiefly destroy men, yet the beasts of the field go to wreck too, the beasts that are serviceable in wars are waste, as horses and beasts of burden. The Eastern nations have brought store of camels and many elephants into the wars; beside the slaughter of these in fight, the spoiler wasting his enemy doth often destroy whole herds and flocks. <\/P> <\/p>\n Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land<\/strong>,…. The land which had grievously sinned; the same land into which a famine should come, and through which evil beasts should pass; to which, if the Lord should add, as he would, a third judgment, the sword; suffer a foreign enemy to come in among them, and destroy them. So the Targum,<\/p>\n “or if those that slay with the sword I should bring upon that land;”<\/p>\n the Chaldean army, as he did; the sword has its commission from God; war is not by chance; the invasion of a foreign enemy is from the Lord; and all the mischiefs and ravages of a tumultuous army are all by divine order:<\/p>\n and say, sword, go through the land<\/strong>; not only enter the borders of it, or proceed far in it, but even go through it; which is terrible indeed! but if the Lord bids it go, it must go, and does; it is a servant of his, and punctually obeys his commands; that is, such are those that use it, however profane and wicked they may be in themselves, as generally armies consist of dissolute persons; yet these are under a divine direction, and are obedient to the will of God, though they may know it not. So the Targum,<\/p>\n “and I say that they that kill with the sword pass through the land:”<\/p>\n so that I cut off man and beast from it<\/strong>; by the sword; the one being destroyed as an enemy, the other for food.<\/p>\n The Prophet now descends to the third kind of punishment. Hence God says, if he send a sword upon a land, he cannot be entreated so as not to consume it utterly, neither will he admit any man’s intercession, although the most holy dwell there, namely, Job, Noah, and Daniel. But the phrase used must be marked: if I shall say to the sword, pass through to exterminate and blot out the whole land, or cut off from it, both man and beast, because we here gather the great power of God’s secret government. For we think that wars are stirred up at random: and as men are in agitation, so also we imagine war to be nothing but confusion and turbulence. But God governs even wars by his inestimable wisdom, and also men and their swords: men are enraged, their swords fly about in their hands, and they seem to go hither and thither at random by blind impulse. But God here announces that he permits swords to pass through a land, and to destroy both men and cattle. If he had said, after the language used in many places, that he would arm men, it would not have been very wonderful: for everywhere throughout the Prophets he calls the Chaldaeans and Assyrians executors of his judgment. Hence that sentence of Jeremiah, Cursed is he who has done God’s work negligently. (Jer 48:10<\/span>.) But that work of God was the slaughter at Jerusalem. So also Nebuchadnezzar is called God’s servant and minister when he laid waste Egypt, and God promises him the reward of his labor. (Eze 29:20<\/span>.) So here Ezekiel proceeds further, not only that the hands of men are directed as God wishes, but also that their swords listen to his secret command, so that they neither pass by nor strike any man or animal except as far as God pleases. But if God so commands the swords, let us know that whenever men rise up against us, that our patience is exercised and our sins chastised in this way: and that the impious are God’s agents: and let us determine that we shall never profit by noise and resistance, since there is but one remedy, to humble ourselves under God’s strong hand. Now the fourth kind of punishment follows — <\/p>\n 17-19<\/strong>. <\/strong> See Eze 5:12-17<\/span>; Eze 21:3<\/span>; Eze 38:21-22<\/span>; Lev 26:22-26<\/span>.<\/p>\n “Or if I bring a sword on that land and say, ‘Sword, go through the land,’ so that I cut off from it man and beast, though these three men were in it, as I live says the Lord Yahweh, they will deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only will be delivered themselves.”<\/p>\n Again the idea is in mind of devastating judgment. This is no local raid but a raid by a huge army which totally devastates the land destroying man and beast. If it is the Lord’s doing then there is no deliverance from it except for the truly righteous.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Eze 14:17 Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Ver. 17. Or if I bring a sword.<\/strong> ] The sword, whensoever it comes is bathed in heaven. Isa 34:5 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sword, go through the land.<\/strong> ] When the sword rideth circuit, as a judge, it is in commission. See Jer 47:6-7<\/span> .<\/p>\n if I bring a sword, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Lev 26:25). See Eze 5:17. <\/p>\n I bring: Eze 5:12, Eze 5:17, Eze 21:3, Eze 21:4, Eze 21:9-15, Eze 29:8, Eze 38:21, Eze 38:22, Lev 26:25, Jer 25:9, Jer 47:6 <\/p>\n so that: Eze 14:13, Eze 25:13, Jer 33:12, Hos 4:3, Zep 1:3 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Lev 26:6 – shall the sword Isa 65:12 – will I Jer 5:10 – ye up Jer 9:16 – and I Jer 12:12 – the sword Jer 21:6 – I will Jer 25:29 – I will Jer 34:17 – to the sword Jer 47:7 – the Lord Eze 12:14 – I will draw Eze 14:21 – my four Eze 21:16 – Go Eze 33:2 – When I bring the sword upon a land Mat 8:9 – Go Mat 24:6 – ye shall hear<\/p>\n Eze 14:17. The Lord brought the sword upon the land by having a foreign army to make a hostile attack, This has been done on numerous occasions in the history of Israel, such as the Assyrians in 2 Kings 17 and the Babylonians in chapters 24 and 26 of the same book.<\/p>\n The presence of these three men would not save the city if the Lord brought an invading army against it (Eze 14:17-18). The same would be true if God judged His people with disease, the effect of siege warfare (Eze 14:19-20; cf. Rev 6:1-8). The Lord confirmed the certainty of each of the last three forms of judgment with His oath (Eze 14:16; Eze 14:18; Eze 14:20).<\/p>\n Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: 17. say, Sword, go through ] This rendering assumes a grammatical anomaly. Rather, the sword shall go through. Eze 14:19-20. The pestilence. 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