Ezekiel 21:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For 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.

The king

Proverbs 16:33

Proverbs 21:1

To use

Acts 16:16

Arrows

Zechariah 10:2

Bible References

The king

The lot is cast into the lap,
But its every decision is from the Lord.

The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord;
He turns it wherever He wishes.

To use

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,

“For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

He has also rejected you from being king.”

A divine decision is in the lips of the king;
His mouth should not err in judgment.

It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

Arrows

When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the

household idols that were her father’s.

And the man Micah had a

shrine and he made an ephod and

household idols and consecrated one of his sons, that he might become his priest.

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or

household idols.

My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

For the teraphim speak iniquity,
And the diviners see lying visions
And tell false dreams;
They comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wander like sheep,
They are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.