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Ezekiel 5:2 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 5 · verse 2
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.Ezekiel 5:2 · King James Version
Ezekiel 5:2 in context
1And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2Thou 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.
3Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4Then 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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- fulfilledmâlêʼto fill or be full of, in a wide applicationH4390 →
- midsttâveka bisectionH8432 →
- siegemâtsôwrsomething hemming inH4692 →
- smitenâkâhto strikeH5221 →
- burnbâʻarto kindleH1197 →
- fireʼûwrflameH217 →
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We have here the sign by which the utter destruction of Jerusalem is set forth; and here, as before, the prophet is himself the sign, that the people might see how much he affected himself with, and interested himself in, the case of Jerusalem, and how it lay to his heart, even when he foretold the desolations of it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4