Ezekiel 21:26
This is what the Lord God says: Take off your turban, and your crown. Things won't continue as they were. Give power to the common people and bring down the powerful!
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25As for you, you unclean, wicked prince of Israel, the time has come to complete your punishment.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:7The Lord makes some poor, but others rich; he brings some down, but he lifts others up.
2 Kings 25:27In the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, from prison. This happened on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, king of Judah.
Psalms 113:7He helps the poor up from the dust; he lifts the needy from the dump.
Jeremiah 13:18Tell the king and the queen mother: Get down from your thrones, because your splendid crowns have fallen from your heads.
Jeremiah 52:9They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he sentenced him.
Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. What a disaster has come upon us because we have sinned!
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:19-28
Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 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. 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination:… Read the whole commentary →