Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Three classes are described. The sword was to destroy one third of the people; famine and plague another third ("fire" in Ezekiel 5:2 being explained in Ezekiel 5:12 to mean pestilence and famine); that which remained was to be scattered among the nations. A few only of the last portion were to escape, symbolized by the hairs bound in Ezekiel's skirts (Ezekiel 5:3; Jeremiah 40:6; Jeremiah 52:16). Even of these some were to be thrown into the fiery ordeal again (Ezekiel 5:4; Jeremiah 41:1-2, etc.; Jeremiah 44:14, etc.). The "skirts" being able to contain but few express that extreme limit to which God's goodness can reach.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 6:13
Jeremiah 15:2
Ezekiel 5:2
Ezekiel 5:12
Ezekiel 6:8
Ezekiel 12:14
Galatians 4:4
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