Ezekiel 21:26

For Melech Bavel stood at the fork in the derech, at the rosh of the two drakhim, to use divination; he shook his khitzim (arrows), he consulted with teraphim, he looked in the liver.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Thus 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.

In Context

25Appoint a derech, that the cherev may come to Rabbah Bnei Ammon, and to Yehudah in fortified Yerushalayim.

27At his right hand was the kesem (divination) for Yerushalayim, to set up battering rams, to call for a slaughter, to lift up the voice with teru'ah (shouting), to appoint battering rams against the she'arim, to heap up a siege mound, and to build a siege work.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:7Hashem maketh poor, and bringeth oisher; 1 He bringeth low, and lifteth up. 1

2 Kings 25:27And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the Golus of Y'hoyakhin Melech Yehudah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Eveel-Merodach Melech Bavel in the year that he began to reign + 25:27 562 B.C.E. did lift up the head of Y'hoyakhin Melech Yehudah out of the bais hakeleh;

Psalms 113:7He raiseth up the poor out of the aphar (dust), 1 and lifteth the needy out of the ash heap; 1

Jeremiah 13:18Say unto HaMelech and to the Gevirah (Queen mother), 1 Humble yourselves, sit down; 1 for your rule shall come down, 1 even the ateret (crown) of your tiferet (glory). 1

Jeremiah 52:9Then they captured HaMelech, and carried him up unto Melech Bavel to Rivlah in Eretz Chamat; where he pronounced mishpatim upon him.

Lamentations 5:16The ateret is fallen from our head; 1 woe unto us, for we have sinned! 1

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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