Ezekiel 21:20

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So that hearts melt, and many stumble at all their gates, I have placed a glittering sword. It is made to flash like lightning and is prepared for slaughter.

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  • Jer 49:2 : 2 Therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a desolate heap, and its villages will be burned with fire. Then Israel will take possession of those who dispossessed him, declares the LORD.
  • Amos 1:14 : 14 So I will set fire to the wall of Rabbah, and it will consume her palaces amid shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.
  • Ezek 25:5 : 5 I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the land of the Ammonites a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 For only Og, king of Bashan, remained from the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bed was made of iron and is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites. It is nine cubits long and four cubits wide, according to the standard cubit.
  • Ps 48:12-13 : 12 Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of Your judgments. 13 Walk around Zion, go around her; count her towers.
  • Ps 125:1-2 : 1 A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, from this time forth and forevermore.
  • Isa 22:10 : 10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore down houses to fortify the wall.
  • Lam 4:12 : 12 Neither the kings of the earth nor the inhabitants of the world believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
  • 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 David took up residence in the stronghold and named it the City of David. He built it up all around, from the Millo inward.
  • 2 Sam 12:26 : 26 Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.
  • 2 Chr 26:9 : 9 Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the Angle, and he strengthened them.
  • 2 Chr 32:5 : 5 Hezekiah took courage and rebuilt all the broken sections of the wall. He built towers on it and constructed another wall outside it. He strengthened the Millo in the City of David and made plenty of weapons and shields.
  • 2 Chr 33:14 : 14 Afterward, he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David west of Gihon in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and surrounding the Ophel. He made it much higher. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

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  • Ezek 21:18-19
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    18For testing is being done. What if even the scepter that despises authority will not continue? This is the declaration of the Sovereign LORD.

    19So you, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together. Let the sword strike twice, even three times. It is a sword for slaughter, a sword of a great massacre that surrounds and penetrates them.

  • Ezek 21:21-22
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    21Unite yourself for the blow, turn to the right, and move to the left, whichever direction your edges are appointed.

    22I too will clap My hands, and I will satisfy My wrath. I, the LORD, have spoken.

  • Ezek 21:28
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    28And to them it will seem like a false divination in their eyes, because they have taken oaths of allegiance. But he will remind them of their guilt and seize them.

  • Ezek 21:15-16
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    15sharpened to slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son, which despises every tree?'

    16He has given it to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand; it is sharpened and polished to be placed in the hands of the slayer.

  • Ezek 21:1-4
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    1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    2Son of man, turn your face toward the south, and speak against the south. Prophesy against the forest of the southern land,

    3and say to the southern forest, 'Listen to the word of the LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Behold, I am about to set you ablaze, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree within you. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

    4All human beings will see that I, the LORD, have ignited it, and it will not be put out.

  • Ezek 4:2
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    2Build siege works against it, construct a ramp, set up camps around it, and place battering rams against it all around.

  • Jer 51:12
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    12Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon! Strengthen the guard, post the watchmen, prepare ambushes, for the Lord has planned and carried out what He purposed against the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • Amos 1:14
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    14So I will set fire to the wall of Rabbah, and it will consume her palaces amid shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest on the day of the whirlwind.

  • Ezek 21:8-9
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    8Say to the land of Israel, 'This is what the LORD says: Behold, I am against you. I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

    9Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will go out from its sheath against all flesh, from the south to the north.

  • Jer 17:19-20
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    19This is what the LORD said to me: 'Go and stand at the gate of the people through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, and also at all the gates of Jerusalem.'

    20Say to them, 'Listen to the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem who enter through these gates.'

  • Jer 21:10-11
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    10For I have set my face against this city for disaster and not for good, declares the LORD. It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will burn it with fire.

    11To the house of the king of Judah: Hear the word of the LORD.

  • Ezek 22:1
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    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Jer 18:21
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    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

  • Ezek 25:1-2
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    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    2Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

  • Nah 2:1
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    18Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

  • Jer 21:3-4
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    3But Jeremiah said to them, "This is what you shall say to Zedekiah:

    4"Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am turning back the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. I will gather them into the midst of this city.

  • Isa 21:6
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    6For this is what the Lord said to me: 'Go, station a watchman, and let him report what he sees.'

  • Ezek 28:20
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    20The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

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    15For I am summoning all the clans and kingdoms of the north,' declares the LORD. 'They will come, and each will set up his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, around all her walls, and against all the cities of Judah.

  • Jer 20:4
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    4For this is what the LORD says: 'I am going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies while you watch, and I will hand all Judah over to the king of Babylon, who will take them captive to Babylon or kill them by the sword.

  • Ezek 21:11
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    11And you, son of man, groan with the breaking of your heart and with bitterness. Sigh in their sight.

  • Jer 21:8
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    8Now you shall also say to this people: "Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

  • Deut 20:20
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    20However, you may cut down only the trees that you know are not fruit-bearing. Use them to build siege works against the city that is at war with you, until it falls.

  • Ezek 12:21
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    21The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Jer 51:27-28
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    27Raise a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations for battle against her. Summon the kingdoms: Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a commander against her. Bring up horses like swarming locusts!

    28Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors, all their officials, and the whole land of their dominion.

  • Jer 25:21
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    21Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon.

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  • Ezek 26:8
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    8'Your villages in the countryside will be killed by the sword, and he will build siege walls against you, raise a siege ramp against you, and set up a shield wall against you.'

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