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Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array, go to the left, wherever your face is set.
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A Sword with Orders
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that this verse is a dramatic address to the personified sword of judgment. Scholar Charles Ellicott notes that the original Hebrew is highly animated, portraying the sword as a military host being commanded: "Gather thyself up (close up ranks) right; set thyself, left." This isn't just a weapon; it's an active agent of God's will, being mobilized for war.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The passage may be called the “Lay of the Sword”; it is written in the form of He…
19th Century
Anglican
This second prophecy is an expansion of the last, Ezekiel 21:8–13 corresponding to Ezekiel 21:2-5, and Ezekiel 21:14-17 to Ezekiel 21:6-…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Go one way or another Go to some one place: or "unite yourself" F1 ; to other swords, or join other soldi…
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Here is an explanation of the parable in the last chapter. It is declared that the Lord was about to cut off Jerusalem and the whole land, that all…
