Ezekiel 21:23

It will seem to be a useless omen in the eyes 1 of the ones in Jerusalem, those who had sworn an oath to the Babylonians! But the king will accuse them of violating their treaty in order to besiege them! 1

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In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

22In his right hand will be an omen about Jerusalem, to set battering rams against it, to open his mouth to order the slaughter, 1 to sound a war cry, to set battering rams against the gates, 1 to build a ramp, and to erect siege towers. 1

24Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, 1 making your transgressions to be revealed, so that in all your actions your sins will be seen— 1 because you have done this you will be taken in hand.

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:18So his mother said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Have you come to me to remind me of my sin and to kill my son?”

2 Chronicles 36:13Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear loyalty to him by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Jeremiah 52:3Through Yahweh's anger, all these events happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he drove them from before himself. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Ezekiel 12:22“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel that says, 'The days are prolonged, and every vision fails'?

Ezekiel 21:24Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, 1 making your transgressions to be revealed, so that in all your actions your sins will be seen— 1 because you have done this you will be taken in hand.

Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts, and the nations' cities collapsed. Then God called to mind Babylon the great, and he gave that city the cup filled with the wine made from his furious wrath.

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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