John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 21:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Go thee one way or another, &c.] Go to some one place: or “unite thyself”f309; to other swords, or join other soldiers holding swords; the address is to the sword, to steer its course some one way, and slay as it goes along, sparing none: either on the right, or on the left; or south, or north; so the Targum, “unsheathe, and slay on the south, and destroy on the north:” whithersoever thy face is set; or prepared, as the Targum, or appointed for destruction; this is the usual interpretation: but why may not the words be an apostrophe to the prophet, to go alone or single, either to the right or left, south or north, as his face was set, (<262102>Ezekiel 21:2), sighing and crying, smiting his hands together, in order to affect the minds of the people with the sense of their calamities coming upon them?

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