Ezekiel 21:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

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  • Jer 49:2 : 2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will cause the alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it will be a desolate heap, and her villages will be burned with fire. Then Israel will inherit those who were his heirs, says the LORD.
  • Amos 1:14 : 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour its palaces, 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 Ammonites a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Deut 3:11 : 11 For only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.
  • Ps 48:12-13 : 12 Walk about Zion, and go all around her; count her towers. 13 Consider well her ramparts, observe her palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following.
  • Ps 125:1-2 : 1 Those who trust in the LORD shall be like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but endures forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people from now on and forevermore.
  • Isa 22:10 : 10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.
  • Lam 4:12 : 12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
  • 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 So David dwelt in the fort and called it the City of David, and David built all around from Millo inward.
  • 2 Sam 12:26 : 26 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, at the Valley Gate, and at the angle of the wall, and fortified them.
  • 2 Chr 32:5 : 5 He also strengthened himself, and rebuilt all the wall that was broken, and raised it to the towers, and built another wall outside, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
  • 2 Chr 33:14 : 14 After this, he built a wall outside the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, reaching the entrance of the Fish Gate, and encircled Ophel, raising it to a great height, and put commanders of war in all the fortified cities of Judah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 21:18-19
    2 verses
    87%

    18The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,

    19Also, son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both shall come forth out of one land: and choose a place, choose it 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 made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

    22At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mound, and to build a fort.

  • Ezek 21:28
    76%

    28And you, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is polished, to consume because of the glittering:

  • Ezek 21:15-16
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    74%

    15I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

    16Go one way or the other, either on the right hand, or on the left, wherever your face is set.

  • Ezek 21:1-4
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    74%

    1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

    3And say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.

    4Seeing then that I will cut off from you 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, build a fort against it, and throw up a ramp against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around.

  • Jer 51:12
    73%

    12Set up the banner upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both devised and done what He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

  • Amos 1:14
    73%

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

  • Ezek 21:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    9Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished:

  • Jer 17:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19Thus said the LORD to 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 to them, Hear the word of the LORD, you 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 against this city for harm and not for good, says the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

    11Concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear the word of the LORD;

  • Ezek 22:1
    72%

    1Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 18:21
    72%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Ezek 25:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

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

  • Nah 2:1
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    1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • Jer 1:18
    72%

    18For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • Jer 21:3-4
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    3Then Jeremiah said to them, Thus shall you say to Zedekiah:

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

  • Isa 21:6
    72%

    6For the Lord has said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.

  • Ezek 28:20
    71%

    20Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 1:15
    71%

    15For behold, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its walls all around, and against all the cities of Judah.

  • Jer 20:4
    71%

    4For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

  • Ezek 21:11
    71%

    11And he has given it to be polished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

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

  • Deut 20:20
    71%

    20Only the trees which you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.

  • Ezek 12:21
    71%

    21The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Jer 51:27-28
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    71%

    27Set up a banner 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 captain against her, cause the horses to come up like the braying locusts.

    28Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, its captains, and all its rulers, and all the land of his dominion.

  • Jer 25:21
    70%

    21Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon,

  • Jer 46:3
    70%

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

  • 1 Chr 20:1
    70%

    1It came to pass, after the year had ended, at the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led the power of the army and devastated the land of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it.

  • Ezek 26:8
    70%

    8He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall build a fort against you, and cast a mound against you, and lift up a shield against you.

  • Nah 2:5
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    5He shall recount his nobles: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.

  • Jer 34:22
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    22Behold, I will command, says the LORD, 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 an inhabitant.

  • Jer 33:4
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    4For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down by the battering rams and by the sword:

  • Ezek 4:7
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    7Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.

  • Jer 32:36
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    36And now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, of which you say, It shall be delivered 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 slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

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

  • Jer 4:5
    70%

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