Ezekiel 21:22

And I also will clap my hands, and let loose my fury: I the Lord have spoken it.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

21And do thou go on, sharpen thyself on the right and on the left whithersoever thy face may set itself.

23And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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Cross References

Exodus 32:17And Joshua having heard the voice of the people crying, says to Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

Joshua 6:20And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:

Job 39:25And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! 1 And afar off he smells the war with prancing and neighing. 1

Jeremiah 33:4And thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my statutes which I set before you,

Jeremiah 52:4And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the ninth month, on the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they made a rampart round it, and built a wall round about it with large stones.

Ezekiel 5:12A fourth part of thee shall be cut off by pestilence, and a fourth part of thee shall be consumed in the midst of thee with famine: and as for another fourth part of thee, I will scatter them to every wind; and a fourth part of thee shall fall by the sword round about thee, and I will draw out a sword after them.

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 →

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