Ezekiel 5
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And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

son. In this expressive emblem, the prophet represents the Jewish nation; his hair, the people; the razor, the Chaldeans; the cutting of the hair, the calamities and disgrace coming upon them; the balances, the exact distribution of the Divine judgments; the third part of the hair burnt, those destroyed in the city; the third part smitten with a knife, those slain in trying to escape; the third part scattered to the winds, those who escaped to other countries; the few hairs in his skirt, those left with Gedaliah; and the burning of these, their destruction in Egypt.

take

Ezekiel 44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow …

Leviticus 21:5 They shall not make baldness on their head, neither shall they shave …

Isaiah 7:20 In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, …

then

Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

even I

Ezekiel 15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, …

Ezekiel 21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus said the LORD; Behold, I am against …

Ezekiel 26:3 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Tyrus, …

Ezekiel 28:22 And say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, O Zidon; …

Ezekiel 35:3 And say to it, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am …

Ezekiel 39:1 Therefore, you son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus said …

Leviticus 26:17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before …

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …

Jeremiah 21:5,13 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and …

Lamentations 2:5 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed …

Lamentations 3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.

Zechariah 14:2,3 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the …

Matthew 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth …

in the

Ezekiel 25:2-6 Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them…

Ezekiel 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she …

Ezekiel 29:6,7 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because …

Ezekiel 35:10-15 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries …

Deuteronomy 29:23-28 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, …

1 Kings 9:8,9 And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall …

Jeremiah 22:8,9 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every …

Jeremiah 24:9 And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the …

Jeremiah 50:7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, …

Lamentations 2:15-17 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …

And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

that which

Lamentations 4:6,9 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is …

Daniel 9:12 And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against …

Amos 3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore …

Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning …

The sentence here passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, and the manner of expression makes it yet more so: the judgments are various, the threatening of them varied, reiterated; so that one may well say, Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry.

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

the fathers

Leviticus 26:29 And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters …

Deuteronomy 28:53-57,64 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons …

2 Kings 6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next …

Isaiah 9:20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall …

Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they …

Isaiah 49:26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they …

Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh …

Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the …

Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they …

the whole

Ezekiel 5:2,12 You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, …

Ezekiel 6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that you may have some that shall escape …

Ezekiel 12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help …

Ezekiel 20:23 I lifted up my hand to them also in the wilderness, that I would …

Ezekiel 22:15 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and disperse you in the …

Ezekiel 36:19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through …

Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword …

Deuteronomy 4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be …

Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end …

Deuteronomy 32:26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance …

Nehemiah 1:8 Remember, I beseech you, the word that you commanded your servant …

Psalm 44:11 You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered …

Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor …

Jeremiah 44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to …

Jeremiah 50:17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first …

Amos 9:9 For, see, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among …

Zechariah 2:6 Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, said the …

Zechariah 7:14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom …

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away …

Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

as I live

Numbers 14:28-35 Say to them, As truly as I live, said the LORD, as you have spoken …

Psalm 95:11 To whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Amos 8:7 The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never …

Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no …

thou hast

Ezekiel 8:5,6,16 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward …

Ezekiel 23:28 For thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver you into the hand …

Ezekiel 44:7 In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised …

2 Kings 21:4,7 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, …

2 Kings 23:12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, …

2 Chronicles 33:4,7 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had …

2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed …

Jeremiah 7:9-11 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and …

Jeremiah 32:34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by …

detestable

Ezekiel 7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty…

Ezekiel 11:18,21 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable …

Deuteronomy 7:25,26 The graven images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall …

Jeremiah 16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; …

Jeremiah 44:4 However, I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early …

will I

Ezekiel 29:15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself …

Psalm 107:39 Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, …

Jeremiah 10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in your anger, lest you …

Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing …

neither shall

Ezekiel 7:4,9 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity: but I will …

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither …

Ezekiel 9:5,10 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go you after him through …

Ezekiel 24:14 I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; …

Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …

Lamentations 2:21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins …

Zechariah 11:6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, said the LORD: …

Malachi 3:17 And they shall be mine, said the LORD of hosts, in that day when …

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, …

Romans 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also …

2 Peter 2:4,5 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down …

A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

third part of

Ezekiel 5:2 You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, …

Ezekiel 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near …

Jeremiah 15:2 And it shall come to pass, if they say to you, Where shall we go …

Jeremiah 21:9 He that stays in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, …

Zechariah 13:7-9 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is …

and I will scatter

Ezekiel 5:2,10 You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, …

Ezekiel 6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that you may have some that shall escape …

Jeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor …

Zechariah 7:14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom …

and I will draw. This was particularly fulfilled in the destruction of those who retired to Egypt; and had been remarkably verified in the many persecutions and miseries which the Jews have suffered at different times, in the various countries into which they are dispersed.

Ezekiel 5:2 You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, …

Ezekiel 12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help …

Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword …

Deuteronomy 28:65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, neither shall the …

Jeremiah 42:16,17,22 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which you feared, shall …

Jeremiah 43:10,11 And say to them, Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; …

Jeremiah 44:27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good…

Amos 9:4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will …

Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.

shall mine

Ezekiel 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near …

Ezekiel 7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury on you, and accomplish my anger …

Ezekiel 13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on them that have …

Ezekiel 20:8,21 But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me: they did …

Jeremiah 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that …

Lamentations 4:11,22 The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce …

Daniel 9:2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number …

Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, …

I will cause

Ezekiel 16:42,63 So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall …

Ezekiel 21:17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my fury to …

Ezekiel 23:25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously …

Ezekiel 24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you …

Isaiah 1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; …

I will be

Deuteronomy 32:36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, …

Isaiah 1:24 Therefore said the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, …

Zechariah 6:8 Then cried he on me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold…

spoken

Ezekiel 6:10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said …

Ezekiel 36:5,6 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy …

Ezekiel 38:18,19 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against …

Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, …

Isaiah 59:17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation …

Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

and evil

Ezekiel 14:15,21 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil …

Ezekiel 33:27 Say you thus to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they …

Ezekiel 34:25-28 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the …

Exodus 28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate …

Leviticus 26:22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your …

Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, …

2 Kings 17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they …

Jeremiah 15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, said the LORD: the sword …

and pestilence

Ezekiel 5:12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine …

Ezekiel 14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury on …

Ezekiel 38:22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and …

and I

Ezekiel 6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near …

Ezekiel 21:3 And say to the land of Israel, Thus said the LORD; Behold, I am against …

Ezekiel 23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with …

I the

Ezekiel 5:13,15 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to …

Ezekiel 17:21,24 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, …

Ezekiel 21:32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the middle …

Ezekiel 22:14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that …

Ezekiel 26:14 And I will make you like the top of a rock: you shall be a place …

Ezekiel 30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of …

Ezekiel 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place …

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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