Ezekiel 21:20

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Jer 49:2 : 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did possess him, saith Jehovah.
  • Amos 1:14 : 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
  • Ezek 25:5 : 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)
  • Ps 48:12-13 : 12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof; 13 Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following.
  • Ps 125:1-2 : 1 [A Song of Ascents]. They that trust in Jehovah Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever. 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So Jehovah is round about his people From this time forth and for evermore.
  • Isa 22:10 : 10 and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;
  • Lam 4:12 : 12 The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
  • 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
  • 2 Sam 12:26 : 26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
  • 2 Chr 26:9 : 9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning [of the wall], and fortified them.
  • 2 Chr 32:5 : 5 And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall without, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
  • 2 Chr 33:14 : 14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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  • Ezek 21:18-19
    2 verses
    87%

    18The word of Jehovah came unto me again, saying,

    19Also, 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.

  • Ezek 21:21-22
    2 verses
    80%

    21For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

    22In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.

  • Ezek 21:28
    76%

    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;

  • Ezek 21:15-16
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    74%

    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.

    16Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

  • Ezek 21:1-4
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    74%

    1And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

    2Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

    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:

  • Ezek 4:2
    73%

    2and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

  • Jer 51:12
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    12Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • Amos 1:14
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    14But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

  • Ezek 21:8-9
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    72%

    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;

  • Jer 17:19-20
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    72%

    19Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

    20and say unto them, Hear ye the word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

  • Jer 21:10-11
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    72%

    10For I have set my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, saith Jehovah: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

    11And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the word of Jehovah:

  • Ezek 22:1
    72%

    1Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Jer 18:21
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    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.

  • Ezek 25:1-2
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    72%

    1And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

    2Son of man, set thy face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:

  • Nah 2:1
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    1He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

  • Jer 1:18
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    18For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

  • Jer 21:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:

    4Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.

  • Isa 21:6
    72%

    6For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he seeth:

  • Ezek 28:20
    71%

    20And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Jer 1:15
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    15For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

  • Jer 20:4
    71%

    4For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

  • Ezek 21:11
    71%

    11And 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.

  • Jer 21:8
    71%

    8And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

  • Deut 20:20
    71%

    20Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

  • Ezek 12:21
    71%

    21And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

  • Jer 51:27-28
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    27Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

    28Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, and all the land of their dominion.

  • Jer 25:21
    70%

    21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;

  • Jer 46:3
    70%

    3Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

  • 1 Chr 20:1
    70%

    1And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote Rabbah, and overthrew it.

  • Ezek 26:8
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    8He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler against thee.

  • Nah 2:5
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    5He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

  • Jer 34:22
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    22Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

  • Jer 33:4
    70%

    4For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down [to make a defence] against the mounds and against the sword;

  • Ezek 4:7
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    7And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.

  • Jer 32:36
    70%

    36And now therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

  • Jer 6:5
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    5Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

  • Jer 4:5
    70%

    5Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.