Ezekiel 21:14

So son of man, prophesy and clap your hands. The sword will attack twice, and then a third time. It is a sword of death, killing many people by coming at them from every direction.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13They will be tested. What if the scepter that despises others doesn't continue? declares the Lord God.

15I have placed a sword at all the gates of their city so that they may lose their courage, and many may fall. Oh no! It's made to flash like lightning and used to kill.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:21If you go on opposing me and refusing to do what I tell you, I will make your punishments seven times worse, based on your sins.

Numbers 24:10Balak got angry with Balaam, and beat his fists together. He told Balaam, “I brought you here to curse my enemies, and now look! You keep on blessing them, doing it three times.

1 Kings 22:25“You'll soon find out when you try and find some secret place to hide!” Micaiah replied.

2 Kings 24:10At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon attacked Jerusalem and besieged it.

Jeremiah 47:7But how can the sword stop killing when the Lord has given it orders to attack Ashkelon and its coastlands?

Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” he said to me, “can you see what the elders of the people of Israel are doing here in the dark, with each one worshiping in the shrine room of his own idol? This is what they're saying: ‘The Lord can't see what we're doing; besides the Lord has abandoned our country!’”

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:9-18

Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 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: 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. 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. 12 Cry and… Read the whole commentary →

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