Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Rather, "In his right hand was [is] the divination," that is, he holds up in his right hand the arrow marked with "Jerusalem," to encourage his army to march for it.
captains—The Margin, "battering-rams," adopted by FAIRBAIRN, is less appropriate, for "battering-rams" follow presently after [GROTIUS].
open the mouth in . . . slaughter—that is, commanding slaughter: raising the war cry of death. Not as GESENIUS, "to open the mouth with the war shout."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 21:22:
Ezekiel 4:2
Ezekiel 25:4
Hosea 4:12
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