1-7 Ezekiel prophesies against Jerusalem with a sign of sighing 8-17 The sharp and bright sword 18-24 against Jerusalem 25-27 against the kingdom 28-32 and against the Ammonites

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2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

set Eze 4:3,7 20:46 25:2 28:21 29:2 38:2 Eph 6:19

and drop De 32:2 Am 7:16 Mic 2:6,11

against Eze 4:7 6:2 20:46 36:1 Jer 26:11,12 Ac 6:13,14

3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

Behold Eze 5:8 26:3 Jer 21:13 50:31 51:25 Na 2:13 3:5

will draw Eze 21:9-11,19 5:12 14:17,21 Ex 15:9 Le 26:25,33 De 32:41,42 Ps 17:13 Isa 10:5 34:5 Jer 47:6,7 51:20 Zep 2:12 Zec 13:7

the righteous Eze 9:5,6 Job 9:22 Ec 9:2 Jer 15:2-4

4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

against Eze 6:11-14 7:2 20:47

5 That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.

all Eze 20:48 Nu 14:21-23 De 29:24-28 1Ki 9:7-9

it shall Eze 21:30 1Sa 3:12 Isa 45:23 55:11 Jer 23:20 Na 1:9

6 Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

Sigh Eze 21:12 6:11 9:4 Isa 22:4 Jer 4:19 9:17-21 Joh 11:33-35

with the Isa 16:11 21:3 Jer 30:6 Da 5:6 8:27 Na 2:10 Hab 3:16

before Eze 4:12 12:3-5 37:20 Jer 19:10

7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

Wherefore Eze 12:9-11 20:49 24:19

For the Eze 7:26 2Ki 21:12 Isa 7:2 28:19 Jer 6:22-24 49:23

and every Ex 15:15 De 20:8 Jos 2:9-11 5:1 2Sa 17:10 Na 2:10

all hands Job 4:3,4 Isa 35:3 Jer 50:43 Lu 21:26 Heb 12:12

faint Le 26:36 Isa 13:7 Jer 8:18 La 5:17

weak as water [heb] go into water Eze 7:17

it cometh Eze 7:2-12 12:22-28 1Pe 4:7

8 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

A sword Eze 21:3,15,28 De 32:41,42 Job 20:25 Isa 66:16 Jer 12:12 15:2 Am 9:4

sharpened Ps 7:11-13 Isa 27:1 34:5,6

10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

it is furbished Jer 46:4 Na 3:3 Hab 3:11

should Es 3:15 Ec 3:4 Isa 5:12-14 22:12-14 Am 6:3-7 Na 1:10 Lu 21:34,35

it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. or, it is the rod of my son, it despiseth every tree. Eze 19:11-14 20:47 2Sa 7:14 Ps 2:7-9 89:26-32,38-45 110:5,6 Re 2:27

11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

to give Eze 21:19 Jer 25:9,33 51:20-23

12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

howl Eze 21:6 9:8 30:2 Jer 25:34 Joe 1:13 Mic 1:8

terrors by reason of the shall be upon my. or, they are thrust down to the sword with my.

smite. This was an expression of deep affliction. Eze 21:14 6:11 Jer 31:12

13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

Because, etc. or, When the trial hath been, what then? shall they not also belong to the despising rod?

a trial Job 9:23 2Co 8:2

contemn Eze 21:10,25

it shall Eze 21:27

14 Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together. and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.

smite Eze 21:17 6:11 Nu 24:10

hands together [heb] hand to hand
let the Le 26:21,24 2Ki 24:1,10-16 25:1 Da 3:19

entereth Eze 8:12 1Ki 20:30 22:25 Am 9:2

15 I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

point. or, glittering, or fear.
against Eze 21:22 15:7 Jer 17:27

that their Eze 21:7 20:47

it is made Eze 21:10,28

wrapped up. or, sharpened.

16 Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

Go Eze 21:4,20 14:17 16:46

either Ge 13:9

or on the left. [heb] set thyself, take the left hand.

17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.

smite Eze 21:14 22:13 Nu 24:10

and I Eze 5:13 16:42 De 28:63 Isa 1:24 Zec 6:8

18 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,

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19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

Eze 4:1-3 5:1 Jer 1:10

20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

Rabbath Eze 25:5 De 3:11 2Sa 12:26 Jer 49:2 Am 1:14

Rabbah
the defenced 2Sa 5:9 2Ch 26:9 32:5 33:14 Ps 48:12,13 125:1,2 Isa 22:10 La 4:12

21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

the king Pr 16:33 21:1

parting [heb] mother
to use Nu 23:28 De 18:10 1Sa 15:23 Pr 16:10 Ac 16:16

he made. Or as the Vulgate, `he mingled his arrows.' They wrote on several arrows,' says Jerome, the names of the cities they intended to assault; and then putting them altogether promiscuously in a quiver, they drew then out thence as lots to be drawn; and that city whose name was written on the arrow first drawn, was the city they first made war on.'

arrows. or, knives
images [heb] teraphim Ge 31:19,30 Jud 17:5 13:14,18,20,24 2Ki 23:24 Ho 3:4 4:12 Zec 10:2

22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

captains. or battering rams. [heb] rams Eze 4:2

to lift Ex 32:17,18 Jos 6:10,20 1Sa 17:20 Job 39:25 Jer 51:14

to appoint Eze 4:2 Jer 32:24 33:4 52:4

23 And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

as a Eze 11:3 12:22 Isa 28:14,15

to them that have sworn oaths. or, for the oaths made unto them. Eze 17:13-19 2Ch 36:13

but 2Ki 24:20 25:1-7 Jer 52:3-11

call Eze 21:24 29:16 Nu 5:15 1Ki 17:18 Re 16:19

24 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

your transgressions Eze 16:16 22:2-12,24-31 23:5 24:7 Isa 3:9 Jer 2:34 3:2 5:27,28 6:15 8:12 9:2-7 Ho 4:2 Mic 3:10-12

ye shall Isa 22:17,18 Jer 15:2 Am 9:1-3

25 And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,

profane Eze 17:19 2Ch 36:13 Jer 24:8 52:2

whose Eze 21:29 7:6 30:3 35:5 Ps 7:9 9:5,6 Jer 51:13

26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

Remove Eze 12:12,13 16:12 2Ki 25:6,27 Jer 13:18 39:6,7 52:9-11,31-34 La 5:16

exalt Eze 17:24 1Sa 2:7,8 Ps 75:7 113:7,8 Lu 1:52

27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it. [heb] Perverted, perverted, perverted, will I make it. Hag 2:21,22 Heb 12:26,27

until Eze 21:13 17:22,23 34:23 37:24,25 Ge 49:10 Nu 24:19 Ps 2:6 72:7-10 Isa 9:6,7 Jer 23:5,6 30:21 33:15,16,21,26 Da 2:44 9:25 Ho 3:5 Am 9:11,12 Mic 5:2 Hag 2:7 Zec 6:12,13 9:9 Mal 3:1 4:2 Mt 28:18 Lu 1:32,69 2:11 Joh 1:4,9 Eph 1:20-22 Php 2:9,10 1Pe 3:22 Re 19:11-16

28 And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

concerning the Eze 21:20 25:2-7 Jer 49:1-5 Am 1:13-15 Zep 2:8-10

the sword Eze 21:9,10

29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

they see Eze 12:24 13:23 22:28 Isa 44:25 47:13 Jer 27:9

to bring Eze 13:10 La 2:14

whose Eze 21:25 Job 18:20 Ps 37:13

30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Shall I cause it to return. or, Cause it to return Eze 21:4,5 Jer 47:6,7

I will Eze 16:38 28:13,15 Ge 15:14

in the Eze 16:3,4

31 And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

pour Eze 7:8 14:19 22:22 Na 1:6

I will blow Eze 22:20,21 Ps 18:15 Isa 30:33 37:7 40:7 Hag 1:9

brutish. or, burning
and skilful Isa 14:4-6 Jer 4:7 6:22,23 51:20,21 Hab 1:6-10

32 Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.

for fuel Eze 20:47,48 Mal 4:1 Mt 3:10,12

thy blood Eze 21:30 Isa 34:3-7

thou shalt be no This prophecy against the Ammonites was fulfilled about five years after the taking of Jerusalem; and their name has utterly perished from the face of the earth. Eze 25:10 Zep 2:9

for I Nu 23:19 Mt 24:35