Ezekiel 21

King James Version · 32 verses · 552 cross-references linking it to 242 other chapters

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1And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,30 cross-references: Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 4:7, Ezekiel 28:21, Ezekiel 25:2, Ezekiel 38:2
3And 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.41 cross-references: Jeremiah 21:13, Job 9:22, Nahum 3:5, Ezekiel 5:8, Nahum 2:13
4Seeing 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:9 cross-references: Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 7:2, Ezekiel 6:11–14
5That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more.11 cross-references: Ezekiel 21:30, Nahum 1:9, Jeremiah 23:20, 1 Samuel 3:12, Ezekiel 20:48
6Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.27 cross-references: Isaiah 22:4, Ezekiel 6:11, Nahum 2:10, Jeremiah 19:10, Isaiah 16:11
7And 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.43 cross-references: Ezekiel 7:17, Jeremiah 50:43, Isaiah 13:7, Nahum 2:10, Hebrews 12:12
8Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:24 cross-references: Isaiah 34:5–6, Ezekiel 21:28, Ezekiel 21:3, Isaiah 27:1, Isaiah 66:16
10It 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.27 cross-references: Psalms 110:5–6, Ezekiel 20:47, Psalms 2:7–9, Ezekiel 19:11–14, Psalms 89:38–45
11And 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.4 cross-references: Ezekiel 21:19, Jeremiah 51:20–23, Jeremiah 25:33, Jeremiah 25:9
12Cry 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.17 cross-references: Ezekiel 21:6, Joel 1:13, Jeremiah 31:19, Jeremiah 31:12, Ezekiel 21:14
13Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God.10 cross-references: Ezekiel 21:25, Ezekiel 21:10, 2 Corinthians 8:2, Job 9:23
14Thou 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.20 cross-references: Numbers 24:10, 2 Kings 24:1, Leviticus 26:21, Leviticus 26:24, Ezekiel 6:11
15I 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.13 cross-references: Jeremiah 17:27, Ezekiel 21:10, Ezekiel 21:7, 2 Samuel 17:10, Psalms 22:14
16Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.6 cross-references: Ezekiel 14:17, Ezekiel 21:4, Ezekiel 16:46, Ezekiel 21:20, Genesis 13:9
17I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the Lord have said it.16 cross-references: Ezekiel 5:13, Ezekiel 21:14, Ezekiel 22:13, Zechariah 6:8, Numbers 24:10
18The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,
19Also, 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.8 cross-references: Ezekiel 4:1–3, Jeremiah 1:10, Ezekiel 5:1–17
20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.23 cross-references: Amos 1:14, Jeremiah 49:2, Deuteronomy 3:11, Ezekiel 25:5, Psalms 48:12–13
21For 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.29 cross-references: Proverbs 16:33, Judges 17:5, Judges 18:20, Genesis 31:30, Genesis 31:19
22At 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.24 cross-references: Ezekiel 4:2, Ezekiel 26:9, 1 Samuel 17:20, Jeremiah 52:4, Jeremiah 33:4
23And 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.19 cross-references: Numbers 5:15, Ezekiel 29:16, Ezekiel 21:24, Isaiah 28:14–15, 2 Chronicles 36:13
24Therefore 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.20 cross-references: Hosea 4:2, Jeremiah 5:27–28, Ezekiel 23:5–21, Micah 3:10–12, Jeremiah 9:2–7
25And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,35 cross-references: Ezekiel 35:5, Jeremiah 52:2, Ezekiel 17:19, 2 Chronicles 36:13, Ezekiel 21:29
26Thus 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.21 cross-references: Ezekiel 17:24, Psalms 75:7, Jeremiah 52:31–34, Jeremiah 13:18, Luke 1:52
27I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.42 cross-references: Micah 5:2, Jeremiah 23:5–6, Luke 1:32, Psalms 2:6, Haggai 2:21–22
28And 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:16 cross-references: Ezekiel 21:9–10, Ezekiel 21:20, Zephaniah 2:8–10, Jeremiah 12:12, Jeremiah 49:1–5
29Whiles 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.23 cross-references: Ezekiel 21:25, Ezekiel 22:28, Jeremiah 27:9, Psalms 37:13, Ezekiel 13:10
30Shall 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.13 cross-references: Jeremiah 47:6–7, Ezekiel 16:38, Genesis 15:14, Ezekiel 21:4–5, Ezekiel 16:3–4
31And 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.24 cross-references: Ezekiel 7:8, Nahum 1:6, Haggai 1:9, Isaiah 30:33, Jeremiah 6:22–23
32Thou 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.13 cross-references: Ezekiel 25:10, Malachi 4:1, Ezekiel 20:47–48, Ezekiel 21:30, Matthew 3:10

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Jerusalem, Babylon, Rabbah

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Does God destroy the righteous along with the wicked?