Ezekiel 21:11

American Standard Version (1901)

And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

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  • Ezek 21:19 : 19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and [I will send] unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Jer 25:33 : 33 And the slain of Jehovah shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the face of the ground.
  • Jer 51:20-23 : 20 Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; 22 and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin; 23 and with thee will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke [of oxen] ; and with thee will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

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  • Ezek 21:8-10
    3 verses
    85%

    8And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

    9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

    10it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.

  • Ezek 21:12-15
    4 verses
    77%

    12Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon thy thigh.

    13For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.

    14Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.

    15I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

  • Ezek 21:28-31
    4 verses
    77%

    28And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say thou, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

    29while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

    30Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth, will I judge thee.

    31And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee; I will blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.

  • Isa 49:2
    74%

    2and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close:

  • Ezek 21:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

    4Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

    5and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

  • Ezek 32:11
    73%

    11For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

  • Job 20:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.

    25He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.

  • Isa 34:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

    6The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

  • Job 41:26
    72%

    26If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

  • Deut 32:41
    72%

    41If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

  • Ezek 11:8
    72%

    8Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Job 19:29
    71%

    29Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath [bringeth] the punishments of the sword, That ye may know there is a judgment.

  • Ezek 21:20
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    20Thou shalt appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Job 39:23
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    23The quiver rattleth against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.

  • 1 Sam 13:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;

    21yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

  • Ezek 31:11
    71%

    11I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

  • Jer 50:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.

    36A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

  • Ezek 32:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

    21The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

  • Ezek 14:17
    70%

    17Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;

  • Job 40:19
    70%

    19He is the chief of the ways of God: He [only] that made him giveth him his sword.

  • Ps 7:13
    70%

    13He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts] .

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

  • Ps 55:21
    69%

    21His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

  • Nah 3:3
    69%

    3the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;--

  • Hos 11:6
    69%

    6And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.

  • Ps 149:6
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    6[ Let] the high praises of God [be] in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand;

  • 2 Sam 22:35
    69%

    35He teacheth my hands to war, So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.

  • Eccl 10:10
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    10If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him that is] not wood.

  • Ps 89:43
    69%

    43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

  • Song 3:8
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    8They all handle the sword, [and] are expert in war: Every man hath his sword upon his thigh, Because of fear in the night.

  • Joel 3:10
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    10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

  • Jer 25:16
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    16And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

  • Isa 13:15
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    15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.