English Standard Version
Ezekiel 5:3
3And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
Ezekiel 5:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
- New International Version (NIV)But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall also take a small number of them and bind them in the edge of your garment.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Keep just a bit of the hair and tie it up in your robe.
Context of Ezekiel 5:3
1"And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. 2A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe. 4And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel. 5"Thus says the Lord God: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
Read all of Ezekiel 5Ezekiel 5:3 word by word
וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ מִשָּׁ֖ם מְעַ֣ט בְּמִסְפָּ֑ר וְצַרְתָּ֥ אוֹתָ֖ם בִּכְנָפֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 5:3
- 2 Kings 25:12But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
- Jeremiah 39:10Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
- Jeremiah 40:6Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.
- Jeremiah 52:16But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.
- Matthew 7:14For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
- Luke 13:23And someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them,
- 1 Peter 4:18And "If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"
Commentaries on Ezekiel 5:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Of the third part a few are yet to be taken and kept in the fold of the garment (representing those still to remain in their native land), and yet even of those few some are to be cast into the fire. Such was the fate of those left behind after the destruction of Jerusalem Ezekiel 5:4 Thereof - Or, from thence, out of the midst of the fire. Omit “For.”Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4Ezekiel was to tie a small amount of hair in his robe to show that a few people would be safe. However, even some of them would die during the exile. Only a few would survive the many disasters about to happen to God's people.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-171. knife ... razor--the sword of the foe (compare Is 7:20). This vision implies even severer judgments than the Egyptian afflictions foreshadowed in the former, for their guilt was greater than that of their forefathers. thine head--as representative of the Jews. The whole hair being shaven off was significant of severe and humiliating (2Sa 10:4, 5) treatment. Especially in the case of a priest; for priests (Le 21:5) were forbidden "to make baldness on…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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