Ezekiel 21:5
And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more.
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Deuteronomy 29:24yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?
1 Kings 9:7then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples;
Isaiah 55:11So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that [for] which I sent it.
Ezekiel 17:2'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,
Ezekiel 21:30Turn [it] back unto its scabbard, In the place where thou wast produced, In the land of thy birth I do judge thee.
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 →