Ezekiel 21:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.

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  • Ezek 4:2 : 2 And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.
  • Ezek 26:9 : 9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.
  • Exod 32:17-18 : 17 Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents. 18 And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear.
  • Josh 6:10 : 10 And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry.
  • Josh 6:20 : 20 So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town.
  • 1 Sam 17:20 : 20 And David got up early in the morning, and, giving the sheep into the care of a keeper, took the things and went as Jesse had said; and he came to the lines where the carts were, when the army was going out to the fight giving their war-cry.
  • Job 39:25 : 25 In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
  • Jer 32:24 : 24 See, they have made earthworks against the town to take it; and the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and need of food and disease: and what you have said has taken place, and truly you see it.
  • Jer 33:4 : 4 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;
  • Jer 51:14 : 14 The Lord of armies has taken an oath by himself, saying, Truly, I will make you full with men as with locusts, and their voices will be loud against you.
  • Jer 52:4 : 4 And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.

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  • Ezek 21:18-21
    4 verses
    81%

    18 And the word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

    19 And you, son of man, have two ways marked out, so that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; let the two of them come out of one land: and let there be a pillar at the top of the road:

    20 Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to come to Rabbah in the land of the children of Ammon, and to Judah and to Jerusalem in the middle of her.

    21 For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two roads, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.

  • Ezek 4:2
    76%

    2 And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

  • Ezek 9:1
    73%

    1 Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.

  • Ezek 26:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

    9 He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Ezek 21:15-16
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    73%

    15 In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.

    16 Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.

  • Isa 28:6
    71%

    6 And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.

  • Jer 51:12
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    12 Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.

  • Zech 12:2
    71%

    2 See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.

  • Jer 6:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

    6 For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.

  • Lam 2:8
    71%

    8 It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

  • Zech 12:6
    71%

    6 In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem.

  • Jer 1:15
    71%

    15 For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.

  • Isa 22:7
    71%

    7 And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.

  • Jer 21:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 For my face is turned to this town for evil and not for good, says the Lord: it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire.

    11 About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;

  • Ezek 21:23
    71%

    23 And this answer given by secret arts will seem false to those who have given their oaths and have let them be broken: but he will keep the memory of evil-doing so that they may be taken.

  • Luke 21:20
    71%

    20 But when you see armies all round about Jerusalem, then be certain that her destruction is near.

  • Jer 25:18
    70%

    18 Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

  • Jer 34:22
    70%

    22 See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.

  • 2 Chr 32:18
    70%

    18 These things they said, crying out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, with the purpose of troubling them and putting fear into them, so that they might take the town;

  • Zeph 1:16
    70%

    16 A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.

  • Isa 21:6
    70%

    6 For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees:

  • Jer 33:4
    70%

    4 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

  • Isa 22:10
    70%

    10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

  • Nah 2:5
    70%

    5 The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.

  • Nah 2:1
    70%

    1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

  • Ezek 21:2
    70%

    2 Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;

  • Jer 21:7
    70%

    7 And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.

  • Jer 21:4
    70%

    4 The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.

  • 2 Chr 23:10
    70%

    10 And he put all the people in position, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, by the altar and the house and all round the king.

  • Isa 22:5
    70%

    5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

  • Jer 17:19
    70%

    19 This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;

  • Jer 1:18
    69%

    18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • Ezek 23:24
    69%

    24 And they will come against you from the north on horseback, with war-carriages and a great band of peoples; they will put themselves in order against you with breastplate and body-cover and metal head-dress round about you: and I will make them your judges, and they will give their decision against you as seems right to them.

  • Isa 14:21
    69%

    21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

  • Jer 51:27
    69%

    27 Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.

  • Ezek 22:27
    69%

    27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

  • Jer 50:22
    69%

    22 There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22 A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

  • 2 Kgs 21:13
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    13 And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.

  • Jer 10:22
    69%

    22 News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.

  • Jer 19:7
    69%

    7 I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

  • Isa 21:2
    69%

    2 A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.