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 lots are cast into the lap, but their fall standeth in the LORD.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, like as are the rivers of water; he may turn it whithersoever he will.

To use

And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that boweth toward the wilderness.

Let there not be found among you that maketh his son or his daughter go through fire, either a bruterer or a maker of dismal days, or that useth witchcraft, or a sorcerer,

For rebelliousness is as the sin of witchcraft; and stubbornness is wickedness and idolatry. Because therefore thou hast cast away the word of the LORD, therefore hath the LORD cast away thee also, from being king."

When the prophecy is in the lips of the king, his mouth shall not go wrong in judgment.

And it fortuned as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit that prophesied met us, which brought her master and masters much vantage with prophesying.

Arrows

Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father's images.

And the man Micah had a chapel of gods, and made an ephod and images, and filled the hand of one of his sons which became his priest.

Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, "Know ye not that there is in these houses an ephod and images; and a graven image and an image of metal? Now therefore consider what ye have to do."

And thereto workers with spirits, soothsayers, Images of witchcraft, idols and all other abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put out of the way to make good the words of the law, which were written in the book that Helkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

Thus the children of Israel shall sit a great while without king and prince, without offering and alter, without priest and revelation.

My people ask counsel at their stocks, their staff must tell them. For a whorish mind hath deceived them, so that they commit fornication against their God.

For vain is the answer of Idols. The soothsayers see lies, and tell but vain dreams. The comfort that they give, is nothing worth. Therefore go they astray like a flock of sheep, and are troubled, because they have no shepherd.