Ezekiel 21:21
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| Overview - Ezekiel 21 | |
| 1 | Ezekiel prophesies against Jerusalem with a sign of sighing. |
| 8 | The sharp and bright sword; |
| 18 | against Jerusalem; |
| 25 | against the kingdom; |
| 28 | and against the Ammonites. |
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Ezekiel 21:21 (King James Version)
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
- Proverbs 16:33 ; 21:1
- parting
- Hebrew mother. to use.
- Numbers 23:28 ; Deuteronomy 18:10 ; 1 Samuel 15:23 ; Proverbs 16:10 ; Acts 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 are 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. Hebrew teraphim.
- Genesis 31:19 Genesis 31:30 ; Judges 17:5 ; Judges 18:14 Judges 18:18 Judges 18:20 Judges 18:24 2 Kings 23:24 ; Hosea 3:4 ; 4:12
- Zechariah 10:2