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Ezekiel Chapter 21

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Ezekiel

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Ezekiel 21 sets the prophet's face toward Jerusalem and prophesies against the land of Israel, declaring that the Lord has drawn His sword from its sheath to cut off both the righteous and the wicked from south to north. It depicts the sword sharpened and furbished for slaughter, and shows the king of Babylon at the parting of the ways using divination to decide his march, until his sword comes upon Jerusalem and the prince whose day has come. The chapter closes with the Lord commanding the sword to return to its sheath only after judging the prince in the land of his nativity, pouring out indignation and delivering him into the hand of brutish men skilled to destroy, so that he becomes fuel for the fire and is remembered no more.

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(1) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
(2) Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
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Ezekiel 4:3Ezekiel 4:7Ezekiel 20:46Ezekiel 25:2Ezekiel 28:21Ezekiel 29:2Ezekiel 38:2Ephesians 6:19Deuteronomy 32:2Amos 7:16Micah 2:6Micah 2:11

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4Deuteronomy 28:54

(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.
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Ezekiel 5:8Ezekiel 26:3Jeremiah 21:13Jeremiah 50:31Jeremiah 51:25Nahum 2:13Nahum 3:5Ezekiel 21:9Ezekiel 21:10Ezekiel 21:11Ezekiel 21:19Ezekiel 5:12

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Matthew 10:41

(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:
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Ezekiel 6:11Ezekiel 6:12Ezekiel 6:13Ezekiel 6:14Ezekiel 7:2Ezekiel 20:47

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Ezekiel 46:9Matthew 10:41II Peter 2:8Joshua 18:19I Samuel 27:10Ezekiel 20:46

(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.
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Ezekiel 20:48Numbers 14:21Numbers 14:22Numbers 14:23Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28I Kings 9:7I Kings 9:8I Kings 9:9

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7

(6) Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
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Ezekiel 21:12Ezekiel 6:11Ezekiel 9:4Isaiah 22:4Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 9:17Jeremiah 9:18Jeremiah 9:19Jeremiah 9:20Jeremiah 9:21John 11:33John 11:34

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Lamentations 1:4

(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.
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Ezekiel 12:9Ezekiel 12:10Ezekiel 12:11Ezekiel 20:49Ezekiel 24:19Ezekiel 7:26II Kings 21:12Isaiah 7:2Isaiah 28:19Jeremiah 6:22Jeremiah 6:23Jeremiah 6:24

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Proverbs 1:27Ezekiel 14:4I Kings 14:5II Kings 11:8II Chronicles 23:7Job 20:25

(8) Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
(9) Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
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Ezekiel 21:3Ezekiel 21:15Ezekiel 21:28Deuteronomy 32:41Deuteronomy 32:42Job 20:25Isaiah 66:16Jeremiah 12:12Jeremiah 15:2Amos 9:4Psalms 7:11Psalms 7:12

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Ezekiel 13:2Micah 2:6Ezekiel 21:11

(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.
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Jeremiah 46:4Nahum 3:3Habakkuk 3:11Esther 3:15Ecclesiastes 3:4Isaiah 5:12Isaiah 5:13Isaiah 5:14Isaiah 22:12Isaiah 22:13Isaiah 22:14Amos 6:3

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Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Joel 1:12Genesis 2:9Matthew 12:33Romans 11:24

(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.
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Ezekiel 21:19Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:33Jeremiah 51:20Jeremiah 51:21Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23

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Ezekiel 21:9Ezekiel 21:10

(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.
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Ezekiel 21:6Ezekiel 9:8Ezekiel 30:2Jeremiah 25:34Joel 1:13Micah 1:8Ezekiel 21:14Ezekiel 6:11Jeremiah 31:12

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Job 35:9Psalms 68:27Jeremiah 49:3Exodus 2:23

(13) Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
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Job 9:23II Corinthians 8:2Ezekiel 21:10Ezekiel 21:25

(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.
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Ezekiel 21:17Ezekiel 6:11Numbers 24:10Leviticus 26:21Leviticus 26:24II Kings 24:1II Kings 24:10II Kings 24:11II Kings 24:12II Kings 24:13II Kings 24:14II Kings 24:15

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Ezekiel 32:25Revelation 8:12Ezekiel 5:2Numbers 25:14Deuteronomy 21:1II Kings 11:2

(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.
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Ezekiel 21:22Ezekiel 15:7Jeremiah 17:27Ezekiel 21:7Ezekiel 20:47Ezekiel 21:10Ezekiel 21:28

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Revelation 21:13Jeremiah 22:18Nehemiah 13:19

(16) Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
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Ezekiel 21:4Ezekiel 21:20Ezekiel 14:17Ezekiel 16:46Genesis 13:9

(17) I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it.
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Ezekiel 21:14Ezekiel 22:13Numbers 24:10Ezekiel 5:13Ezekiel 16:42Deuteronomy 28:63Isaiah 1:24Zechariah 6:8

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Ezekiel 5:13

(18) The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,
(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.
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Ezekiel 4:1Ezekiel 4:2Ezekiel 4:3Ezekiel 5:1Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 5:3Ezekiel 5:4Ezekiel 5:5Ezekiel 5:6Ezekiel 5:7Ezekiel 5:8Ezekiel 5:9

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Proverbs 3:31Isaiah 6:2

(20) Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
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Ezekiel 25:5Deuteronomy 3:11II Samuel 12:26Jeremiah 49:2Amos 1:14II Samuel 5:9II Chronicles 26:9II Chronicles 32:5II Chronicles 33:14Psalms 48:12Psalms 48:13Psalms 125:1

(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.
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Proverbs 16:33Proverbs 21:1Numbers 23:28Deuteronomy 18:10I Samuel 15:23Proverbs 16:10Acts 16:16Genesis 31:19Genesis 31:30Judges 17:5Judges 18:14Judges 18:18

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II Chronicles 34:4Jeremiah 51:11

(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.
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Ezekiel 4:2Exodus 32:17Exodus 32:18Joshua 6:10Joshua 6:20I Samuel 17:20Job 39:25Jeremiah 51:14Jeremiah 32:24Jeremiah 33:4Jeremiah 52:4

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Ezekiel 4:2I Samuel 8:12Jeremiah 49:19Jeremiah 50:44Deuteronomy 1:15Revelation 21:13

(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.
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Ezekiel 11:3Ezekiel 12:22Isaiah 28:14Isaiah 28:15Ezekiel 17:13Ezekiel 17:14Ezekiel 17:15Ezekiel 17:16Ezekiel 17:17Ezekiel 17:18Ezekiel 17:19II Chronicles 36:13

(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.
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Ezekiel 16:16Ezekiel 16:17Ezekiel 16:18Ezekiel 16:19Ezekiel 16:20Ezekiel 16:21Ezekiel 16:22Ezekiel 22:3Ezekiel 22:4Ezekiel 22:5Ezekiel 22:6Ezekiel 22:7

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Ezekiel 33:13Psalms 32:5Lamentations 4:22Isaiah 59:12

(25) And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
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Ezekiel 17:19II Chronicles 36:13Jeremiah 24:8Jeremiah 52:2Ezekiel 21:29Ezekiel 7:6Ezekiel 30:3Ezekiel 35:5Psalms 7:9Psalms 9:5Psalms 9:6Jeremiah 51:13

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Philippians 3:19I Samuel 12:3Ezekiel 21:29Daniel 9:26

(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.
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Ezekiel 12:12Ezekiel 12:13Ezekiel 16:12II Kings 25:6II Kings 25:27Jeremiah 13:18Jeremiah 39:6Jeremiah 39:7Jeremiah 52:9Jeremiah 52:10Jeremiah 52:11Jeremiah 52:31

(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.
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Haggai 2:21Haggai 2:22Hebrews 12:26Hebrews 12:27Ezekiel 21:13Ezekiel 17:22Ezekiel 17:23Ezekiel 34:23Ezekiel 37:24Ezekiel 37:25Genesis 49:10Numbers 24:19

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I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Job 12:15

(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:
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Ezekiel 21:20Ezekiel 25:2Ezekiel 25:3Ezekiel 25:4Ezekiel 25:5Ezekiel 25:6Ezekiel 25:7Jeremiah 49:1Jeremiah 49:2Jeremiah 49:3Jeremiah 49:4Jeremiah 49:5

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Numbers 30:12Ruth 4:7II Samuel 7:25I Kings 5:8

(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.
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Ezekiel 12:24Ezekiel 13:23Ezekiel 22:28Isaiah 44:25Isaiah 47:13Jeremiah 27:9Ezekiel 13:10Lamentations 2:14Ezekiel 21:25Job 18:20Psalms 37:13

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Philippians 3:19Ezekiel 4:4I Samuel 12:3Ezekiel 21:25Jeremiah 25:33Ezekiel 32:25

(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.
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Ezekiel 21:4Ezekiel 21:5Jeremiah 47:6Jeremiah 47:7Ezekiel 16:38Ezekiel 28:13Ezekiel 28:15Genesis 15:14Ezekiel 16:3Ezekiel 16:4

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Ezekiel 16:4Song of Solomon 6:13Genesis 1:27Ezekiel 28:15Genesis 3:19Jeremiah 15:19

(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.
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Ezekiel 7:8Ezekiel 14:19Ezekiel 22:22Nahum 1:6Ezekiel 22:20Ezekiel 22:21Psalms 18:15Isaiah 30:33Isaiah 37:7Isaiah 40:7Haggai 1:9Isaiah 14:4

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Psalms 106:23Revelation 11:18

(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.
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Ezekiel 20:47Ezekiel 20:48Malachi 4:1Matthew 3:10Matthew 3:12Ezekiel 21:30Isaiah 34:3Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 34:5Isaiah 34:6Isaiah 34:7Ezekiel 25:10

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