Ezekiel 21:11

World English Bible (2000)

It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 21:19 : 19 Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and [I will send] to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Jer 25:33 : 33 The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
  • Jer 51:20-23 : 20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; 21 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; 22 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin; 23 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

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  • Ezek 21:8-10
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    8 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

    10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it condemns every tree.

  • Ezek 21:12-15
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    12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people, it is on all the princes of Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; strike therefore on your thigh.

    13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that condemns shall be no more? says the Lord Yahweh.

    14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their rooms.

    15 I 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.

  • Ezek 21:28-31
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    28 You, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;

    29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

    30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.

    31 I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

  • Isa 49:2
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    2 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:

  • Ezek 21:3-5
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    3 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: 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.

    4 Seeing 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:

    5 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

  • Ezek 32:11
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    11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

  • Job 20:24-25
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    24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.

    25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

  • Isa 34:5-6
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    5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

    6 Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

  • Job 41:26
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    26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

  • Deut 32:41
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    41 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

  • Ezek 11:8
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    8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Job 19:29
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    29 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment."

  • Ezek 21:20
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    20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

  • Job 39:23
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    23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

  • 1 Sam 13:20-21
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    20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;

    21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

  • Ezek 31:11
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    11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21 Therefore 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 struck of the sword in battle.

  • Jer 50:35-36
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    35 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

    36 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

  • Ezek 32:20-21
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    20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

    21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

  • Ezek 14:17
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    17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;

  • Job 40:19
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    19 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13 He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Ps 55:21
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    21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

  • Nah 3:3
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    3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

  • Hos 11:6
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    6 The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.

  • Ps 149:6
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    6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

  • 2 Sam 22:35
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    35 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of brass.

  • Eccl 10:10
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    10 If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

  • Isa 10:15
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    15 Should an axe brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

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    43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported him in battle.

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    8 They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.

  • Joel 3:10
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    10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

  • Jer 25:16
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    16 They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

  • Isa 13:15
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    15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.