Ezekiel 21:28

So you, son of man, prophesy and say, 'The Lord Yahweh says this to the people of Ammon concerning their coming disgrace: A sword, a sword is drawn! It is sharpened for the slaughter in order to devour, so it will be like lightning!

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And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:

In Context

27A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! It will not be restored until the one comes who is assigned to execute judgment.

29While prophets see empty visions for you, while they perform rituals to come up with lies for you, this sword will lie on the necks of the wicked who are about to be killed, whose day of punishment has come and whose time of iniquity is about to end.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17So God brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and had no compassion on young men or virgins, old men or the gray-haired. God gave them all into his hand.

Jeremiah 49:1About the people of Ammon, Yahweh says this, 1 “Does Israel have no children? Is there no one to inherit anything in Israel? 1 Why does Molech occupy Gad, and his people live in its cities? + 49:1 Instead of Molech , some modern versions have their king . 1

Ezekiel 17:15But the king of Jerusalem rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt to acquire horses and an army. Will he succeed? Will the one doing these things escape? If he breaks the covenant, will he escape?

Ezekiel 21:20Mark one road for the Babylonian army to come to Rabbah, the city of the Ammonites. Mark the other to lead the army to Judah and the city of Jerusalem, which is fortified.

Hosea 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves 1 as in the days of Gibeah. 1 God will call to mind their iniquity, 1 and he will punish their sins. 1

Zephaniah 2:8“I have heard the taunts of Moab and the reviling of the people of Ammon 1 when they taunted my people and violated their borders. 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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