Ezekiel 21:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

Sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lorde God, say, A sworde, a sworde both sharpe, and fourbished.

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  • Ezek 21:3 : 3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I come against thee, and will drawe my sword out of his sheath, and cut off from thee both the righteous and the wicked.
  • Ezek 21:15 : 15 I haue brought the feare of the sword into all their gates to make their heart to faint, and to multiplie their ruines. Ah it is made bright, and it is dressed for the slaughter.
  • Ezek 21:28 : 28 And thou, sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lorde God to the children of Ammon, and to their blasphemie: say thou, I say, The sword, the sword is drawen foorth, and fourbished to the slaughter, to consume, because of the glittering:
  • Amos 9:4 : 4 And though they goe into captiuitie before their enemies, thence wil I commande the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes vpon them for euill, and not for good.
  • Deut 32:41-42 : 41 If I whet my glittering sworde, and mine hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, and will rewarde them that hate me. 42 I will make mine arrowes drunke with blood, (& my sword shal eate flesh) for the blood of the slaine, and of the captiues, when I beginne to take vengeance of the enemie.
  • Job 20:25 : 25 The arrowe is drawen out, and commeth forth of the body, & shineth of his gall, so feare commeth vpon him.
  • Ps 7:11-13 : 11 God iudgeth the righteous, and him that contemneth God euery day. 12 Except he turne, he hath whet his sword: he hath bent his bowe and made it readie. 13 Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day the Lorde with his sore and great and mightie sword shall visite Liuiathan, that pearcing serpent, euen Liuiathan, that crooked serpent, and he shal slay the dragon that is in the sea.
  • Isa 34:5-6 : 5 For my sword shalbe drunken in the heauen: beholde, it shall come downe vpon Edom, euen vpo the people of my curse to iudgement. 6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood: it is made fat with the fat & with the blood of the lambes & the goates, with the fat of the kidneis of the rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
  • Isa 66:16 : 16 For the Lord will iudge with fire, and with his sworde all flesh, and the slaine of the Lorde shall be many.
  • Jer 12:12 : 12 The destroyers are come vpon all the high places in the wildernesse: for the sworde of the Lord shal deuoure from the one end of the land, euen to the other ende of the lande: no flesh shall haue peace.
  • Jer 15:2 : 2 And if they say vnto thee, Whither shal we depart? Then tell them, Thus saith the Lord, Such as are appointed to death, vnto death: and such as are for the sworde, to the sworde: and such as are for the famine, to the famine: and such as are for the captiuitie, to the captiuitie.

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  • Ezek 21:10-15
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    85%

    10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter, and it is fourbished that it may glitter: how shall we reioyce? for it contemneth the rod of my sonne, as all other trees.

    11 And he hath giuen it to be fourbished, that he may handle it: this sword is sharpe, & is fourbished, that he may giue it into ye hand of the slayer.

    12 Cry, and houle, sonne of man: for this shall come to my people, and it shal come vnto all the princes of Israel: the terrours of the sword shall be vpon my people: smite therefore vpo thy thigh.

    13 For it is a triall, and what shall this be, if the sworde contemne euen the rodde? It shall be no more, saith the Lord God.

    14 Thou therefore, sonne of man, prophecie, and smite hand to hand, and let the sworde be doubled: let the sworde that hath killed, returne the third time: it is the sword of the great slaughter entring into their priuie chambers.

    15 I haue brought the feare of the sword into all their gates to make their heart to faint, and to multiplie their ruines. Ah it is made bright, and it is dressed for the slaughter.

  • Ezek 21:28-29
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    28 And thou, sonne of man, prophecie, and say, Thus saith the Lorde God to the children of Ammon, and to their blasphemie: say thou, I say, The sword, the sword is drawen foorth, and fourbished to the slaughter, to consume, because of the glittering:

    29 Whiles they see vanitie vnto thee, & prophecied a lie vnto thee to bring thee vpon the neckes of the wicked that are slaine, whose day is come when their iniquitie shall haue an ende.

  • Ezek 21:8
    81%

    8 Againe, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

  • Ezek 21:1-6
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    79%

    1 The word of ye Lord came to me againe, saying,

    2 Sonne of man, set thy face toward Ierusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophecie against the land of Israel.

    3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I come against thee, and will drawe my sword out of his sheath, and cut off from thee both the righteous and the wicked.

    4 Seeing then that I will cut off from thee both the righteous and wicked, therefore shall my sworde goe out of his sheath against all flesh from the South to the North,

    5 That all flesh may knowe that I the Lorde haue drawen my sworde out of his sheath, and it shall not returne any more.

    6 Mourne therefore, thou sonne of man, as in the paine of thy reines, and mourne bitterly before them.

  • Ezek 33:1-2
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    77%

    1 Againe, the woorde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

    2 Sonne of man, speake to the children of thy people, and say vnto them, When I bring the sworde vpon a lande, if the people of the lande take a man from among them, and make him their watchman,

  • Ezek 11:8
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    8 Ye haue feared the sworde, and I wil bring a sworde vpon you, saith the Lorde God.

  • Ezek 14:17
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    17 Or if I bring a sworde vpon this land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I destroy man and beast out of it,

  • Ezek 32:11
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    11 For thus sayth the Lorde God, The sworde of the King of Babel shall come vpon thee.

  • Joel 3:9-10
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    9 Publish this among the Gentiles: prepare warre, wake vp the mightie men: let all the men of warre drawe neere and come vp.

    10 Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.

  • Job 19:29
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    29 Be ye afraide of the sworde: for the sworde will be auenged of wickednesse, that yee may knowe that there is a iudgement.

  • Ezek 21:18-20
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    18 The worde of the Lorde came vnto mee againe, saying,

    19 Also thou sonne of man, appoint thee two wayes, that the sworde of the King of Babel may come: both twaine shall come out of one lande, and chuse a place, and chuse it in the corner of the way of the citie.

    20 Appoint a way, that the sworde may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Iudah in Ierusalem the strong citie.

  • Ezek 38:21
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    21 For I will call for a sworde against him throughout all my mountaines, saith the Lorde God: euery mans sword shalbe against his brother.

  • Ezek 12:21
    72%

    21 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

  • Ezek 11:4
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    4 Therefore prophesie against them, sonne of man, prophesie.

  • Ezek 29:8
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    8 Therefore thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will bring a sworde vpon thee, and destroy man and beast out of thee,

  • Ezek 22:1
    72%

    1 Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

  • Isa 34:5
    71%

    5 For my sword shalbe drunken in the heauen: beholde, it shall come downe vpon Edom, euen vpo the people of my curse to iudgement.

  • Ezek 22:23
    71%

    23 And the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

  • Ezek 22:17
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    17 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

  • Ezek 28:11
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    11 Moreouer the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

  • Jer 50:36
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    36 A sworde is vpon the soothsaiers, and they shall dote: a sword is vpon her strong men, & they shalbe afraide.

  • Ezek 24:15
    70%

    15 Also the worde of ye Lord came vnto me, saying,

  • Ezek 9:1
    70%

    1 He cryed also with a loude voyce in mine eares, saying, The visitations of the citie draw neere, and euery man hath a weapon in his hande to destroy it.

  • Isa 49:2
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    2 And hee hath made my mouth like a sharpe sworde: vnder the shadowe of his hande hath he hid mee, and made me a chosen shafte, and hid me in his quiuer,

  • Ezek 30:1
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    1 The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

  • Jer 14:13
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    13 Then answered I, Ah Lord God, beholde, the prophets say vnto them, Ye shal not see the sworde, neither shal famine come vpon you, but I wil giue you assured peace in this place.

  • Jer 4:10
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    10 Then saide I, Ah, Lord God, surely thou hast deceiued this people and Ierusalem, saying, Ye shall haue peace, and the sworde perceth vnto the heart.

  • Jer 14:15
    70%

    15 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Concerning the prophets that prophecie in my Name, whom I haue not sent, yet they say, Sworde and famine shal not be in this land, by sword and famine shal those prophets be consumed.

  • Ezek 17:1
    69%

    1 And the worde of the Lorde came vnto mee, saying,

  • Ezek 6:3
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    3 And say, Ye mountaines of Israel, heare the worde of the Lorde God: thus sayth the Lorde God to the mountaines and to the hilles, to the riuers and to the valleis, Beholde, I, euen I will bring a sworde vpon you, and I will destroy your hie places:

  • Jer 47:6
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    6 O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be or thou cease! turne againe into thy scaberd, rest and be still.

  • Isa 21:6
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    6 For thus hath the Lord said vnto me, Go, set a watchman, to tell what he seeth.

  • Ezek 39:9-10
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    9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel, shall goe forth, and shall burne and set fire vpon the weapons, and on the shieldes, and bucklers, vpon the bowes, and vpon the arrowes, and vpon the staues in their handes, and vpon the speares, and they shall burne them with fire seuen yeeres.

    10 So that they shall bring no wood out of the fielde, neither cut downe any out of the forestes: for they shall burne the weapons with fire, and they shall robbe those that robbed them, and spoyle those that spoyled them, sayeth the Lorde God.

  • Deut 32:41
    69%

    41 If I whet my glittering sworde, and mine hand take holde on iudgement, I will execute vengeance on mine enemies, and will rewarde them that hate me.