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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 animal;
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God Commands the Sword
Commentators like John Calvin and John Gill emphasize that war is not a random event. God's statement, "Sword, go through the land," reveals His absolute sovereignty. He commissions the sword and directs invading armies as instruments of His judgment. This means that even the chaos of war is under God's ultimate control, serving His purposes to chastise sin.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
(Jeremiah 14; Jeremiah 15) is a remarkable parallel to this prophecy. Here, as elsewhere, Ezekiel is commissioned to deliver…
19th Century
Anglican
In these verses the same declaration is repeated, for the sake of emphasis, with each one of three other instruments of punishment, with only such …
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet now turns to the third kind of punishment. Therefore God says, if He sends a sword upon a land, He cannot be persuaded not to consu…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land The land which had grievously sinned; the same land into which a famine shoul…
National sins bring national judgments. Though sinners escape one judgment, another is waiting for them. When God's professing people rebel against…
