Ezekiel 5:1

World English Bible (2000)

You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 21:5 : 5 "'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
  • Isa 7:20 : 20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.
  • Ezek 44:20 : 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
  • Dan 5:27 : 27 TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

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  • Ezek 5:2-4
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    83%

    2 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

    3 You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.

    4 Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

  • Isa 7:20
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    20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

  • Lev 19:27
    73%

    27 "'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

  • Jer 48:37
    72%

    37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.

  • Lev 21:5
    72%

    5 "'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

  • Lev 13:40-41
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    40 "If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

    41 If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.

  • Mic 1:16
    71%

    16 Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!

  • Num 6:5
    71%

    5 "'All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

  • Lev 14:9
    70%

    9 It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.

  • Jer 47:5
    70%

    5 Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

  • Jer 7:29
    69%

    29 Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • Ezek 33:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

  • Lev 13:29
    69%

    29 "When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

  • Ezek 44:20
    69%

    20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

  • Deut 14:1
    69%

    1 You are the children of Yahweh your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

  • Num 6:9
    69%

    9 "'If any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing. On the seventh day he shall shave it.

  • Isa 22:12
    69%

    12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

  • Ezek 4:1
    69%

    1 You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

  • Num 6:18
    69%

    18 The Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.

  • Ezek 21:28
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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;

  • Ezek 28:11
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    11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 21:9
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    9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

  • Num 8:7
    69%

    7 You shall do this to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

  • Lev 13:33
    68%

    33 then he shall be shaved, but he shall not shave the itch; and the priest shall shut him up who has the itch seven more days.

  • Ezek 21:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop [your word] toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

    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.

  • Ezek 21:14
    68%

    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.

  • Ezek 21:12
    68%

    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.

  • Ezek 7:18
    68%

    18 They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

  • Ezek 4:7
    68%

    7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

  • 2 Sam 14:26
    68%

    26 When he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.

  • Ezek 24:16
    68%

    16 Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

  • Ezek 14:17
    68%

    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;

  • Isa 3:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

    25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

  • Ezek 21:19
    68%

    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.

  • Ezek 22:1
    67%

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

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    67%

    12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.

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    67%

    8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Behold, I will bring a sword on you, and will cut off man and animal from you.

  • Jer 41:5
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    5 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.

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    2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

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    4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

  • Ezek 12:3
    66%

    3 Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight; and you shall move from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.