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It is not often that a prophet will criticize God for the type of prophecy he is charged to deliver. Ezekiel does not lament his assignment in chapter 21, he laments that God has him start off with a riddle again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

'Ah, my Sovereign GOD ! They say of me: He is just a riddlemonger\u2019 (verse 5).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What exactly is Ezekiel\u2019s complaint? Abarbanel believes that Ezekiel is afraid that the people will not believe his message came from God. Instead, if he speaks in metaphors they will think he is just a man who likes to speak in riddles. This is why, Abarbanel explains, God is much more explicit in the follow-up prophecy, directly calling out Jerusalem so there is no confusion as to the \u201ccity in the south.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim does not focus on Ezekiel as the target of the complaint, but the prophecy itself. If Ezekiel speaks in metaphors the people will not understand what he has to say. This is why God follows up with the direct prophecy afterwards so there is no doubt what the message should be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Metzudat David does not believe the complaint has anything to do with confusion. Ezekiel\u2019s concern is that a prophecy based in metaphor is an excuse for the people to interpret the message as they like. This is why God is exact in the follow-up. There can be no mistake as to what the message is about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Radak believes this is not a complaint at all, but is simply Ezekiel saying to God that he can interpret the metaphorical prophecy because Ezekiel is known to be a riddlemonger. The follow-up prophecy is not a new one from God, but is Ezekiel\u2019s explanation of the original metaphorical prophecy. The irony, of course, is that Ezekiel\u2019s statement about being a riddlemonger is so confusing that even the various commentators cannot agree on what the complaint is here or if it is even a complaint! 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Chapter 21 mentions God\u2019s Name fifteen times in different forms. This emphasis is meant to counter the popular perception \u2013 prevalent in pagan thought \u2013 that God would not destroy His own land, and to emphasize that the events will come about by God\u2019s will.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jerusalem will not be saved; not only that but the city is about to suffer a large-scale massacre, and the sword that slaughters will do so in the agency of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The prophet addresses the sword of the king of Babylon. The proximity of these two units highlights the idea that the sword of the king of Babylon is none other than the sword of God, in whose agency the king is acting.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Published in conjunction with hatanach.com. For the <\/span>full Article, see here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 21 begins with an enigmatic riddle \u2013 Ezekiel is asked to face south and prophesy to a forest about an upcoming destructive fire that will consume all the trees within. The rest of the chapter contains several other parables. While the commentators attempt to decipher the parable's details, Rashi's words on verse 18 are representative: \u201dI have heard various interpretations of it\u2026 but to my mind they do not resolve the text.\u201d At this point in time, Ezekiel plaintively complains that the people call him \"a riddler\" \u2013 which causes God to speak more succinctly with a clearer prophecy that leaves the people no excuse to claim that they didn't understand the message. Verses 6-10 interpret beautifully what God intended by the first riddle about the forest fires.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The verse \u201cset your face toward the south; speak out against Darom, and prophesy against the brushland of the Negev\u201d (v. 2) is paralleled by \u201cset your face toward Jerusalem, speak out against her sanctuary, and prophesy against the land of Israel\u201d (v. 7). The three verbs in each verse are the same. Thus, Ezekiel referred to Jerusalem as \"the south\", the sanctuary as Darom, and Israel as Negev. The verse <\/span>\u00a0\u201cI am going to kindle a fire in you, which shall devour every tree of yours, both green and withered. Its leaping flame shall not go out, and every face from south to north shall be scorched by it\" (v. 3) is paralleled by\u00a0 \u201cI will wipe out from you both the righteous and the wicked. In order to wipe out from you both the righteous and the wicked, My sword shall assuredly be unsheathed against all flesh from south to north\u201d <\/span>(v. 8-9). Finally, both sets of verses conclude \"<\/span> And all flesh shall know that I am the Lord\".<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The major difference between the two sections is the replacement of the fire with a sword. This clarifies both God's behavior, as well as what the people may have felt was occurring. Fires are both natural phenomena and they can burn indiscriminately, moving wherever the wind blows it. Once started, fires take on lives of their own. This is not true with a sword. Unless the sword is unsheathed, it can't cause damage; and even when unsheathed, it still only causes damage with the intent of its holder who is directing its movement. The people may have felt that Babylonia had the force of a natural phenomenon. Empires arise, they conquer, they fall. This is the nature of history. No, says Ezekiel. Do not misinterpret the complete destruction that will occur as a natural event like a forest fire burning out of control. 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21:26 \u201c\u2018For the king of Babylonia has stood at the fork of the road, at the crossroad of the two ways, to perform divination, to shake out arrows, to inquire of the household gods, to inspect the liver.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was a regular practice in military campaigns in the ancient Near East to seek guidance through an oracle or divinatory devices in order to choose the proper route or strategy. The shaking out of arrows for divination involved writing alternatives--here, those might be \u201cRabbah\u201d and \u201cJerusalem\u201d on the shafts of different arrows. Inspecting patterns in animal livers was a very common divinatory procedure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In the opening of this chapter, Ezekiel was given, prophetically, yet another parable that he was instructed to deliver to \u201cthe brushland of the south\u201d (2). God will be a blazing fire that will be so all-consuming that it will destroy damp trees along with dry ones (3). Curiously, Ezekiel responded by saying: \u201cAh, Lord God! They say of me: He is just a riddlemonger\u201d (5), a challenge to God reminiscent of Moses whose early messages were similarly ignored by the Israelites, leading him to lose faith in his own mission (Exodus 6:12). Here, God\u2019s response was to provide His own explanation of that parable: The fire is His sword; the damp trees are the righteous; the dry trees are the wicked; and \u201cMy sword shall assuredly be unsheathed against all flesh\u201d (9).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi identified \u201cthe south\u201d with \u201cthe Land of Israel that is south of Babylonia, and \u201cthe brushland\u201d (literally: the field of the forest) with the Temple that\u2014after its destruction\u2014would resemble a desolate field roamed by foxes. Eliezer of Beaugency identified the south\u2014somewhat more particularly\u2014with Judah, which is situated in the south of the Land of Israel, and the brushland, implicitly, with Jerusalem in which one might find noblemen resembling the lofty trees of the forest. Radak cited, as proof text: \u201cFrom the north shall the catastrophe begin\u201d (Jer. 1:14), Jeremiah\u2019s initial prophecy of impending doom descending upon Israel from Babylonia to its north, thereby confirming Jerusalem as the object of Ezekiel\u2019s instruction, too, along with placing his prophecy firmly into the company of Jeremiah, with whom he was contemporary.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malbim spotted an ongoing connection in the continuation of the chapter, explaining:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cSet your face\u201d (2): This is what prepared him to know which direction to face while prophesying about the siege of Jerusalem (v.13 ff.). Here, he told how Nebuchadnezzar engaged in divination to determine whether to turn left\u2014towards Rabat Ammon\u2014or right\u2014to Jerusalem. The lot fell to the south, which was to his right, to wit: \u201cIn his right hand came up the omen against Jerusalem\u201d (27).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Going southward from Babylonia, Nebuchadnezzar could have attacked either Ammon, which was situated to his west, or left, or Jerusalem, which lay to his right, or east. 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\u201cMirror Mirror on the Wall\u201d<\/a> by Steven Dansky: Looking at the laws of mourning\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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  1. The central \u2018heroine.\u2019<\/em> The word \u201csword\u201d (<\/span>cherev<\/span><\/i>, fem. in Hebrew) appears 15 times in this chapter. There are also a number of technical terms: whetted (<\/span>chidud<\/span><\/i>), polished (<\/span>mirut)<\/span><\/i>, and additional equipment, such as: sheath (<\/span>ta\u2019ar<\/span><\/i>), which holds the sword. It is undoubtedly the murderous centerpiece of the action, that ties together the different prophecies, and slays everyone in it spath - from when it leaves its sheath til when it returns to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Personal testimony<\/em>. We heard a great deal about how Jeremiah felt as prophet. Ezekiel shares a lot less. All the more reason to re-read verse 5 and try to understand what\u2019s bothering him. The medium? The message? Reactions?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Is that how decisions should be made<\/em>?\u00a0 \u201c[T]o perform divination: He has shaken arrows, consulted teraphim, and inspected the liver\u201d (verse 26). These are all familiar pagan forms of divination, to try to predict the future and ascertain the will of God. Shaking out arrows like dice, that have names written on them. The first one to fall - that is the sought-after answer. Using idols, and trying to decipher shapes in a liver of some animal. According to verse 27, the king of Babylonia took the decision in some fashion, and the answer was: march against Jerusalem.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Babylonia from both sides of the sword<\/em>. All throughout the chapter, Babylonia holds the divine sword; indeed perhaps she even is the sword. But by the end, the sword is turned towards Babylonia herself. 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