Ezekiel 21:5
All flesh will know that I, the LORD, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’
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Deuteronomy 29:24Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and I will cast this house, which I have made holy for my name, out of my sight; and Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Isaiah 55:11so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Ezekiel 17:2“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 21:30Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:2-8
Threatenings against Israel; Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall… Read the whole commentary →