Ezekiel 21:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

Will draw

The righteous

General references

Luke 23:31

Bible References

Will draw

“Son of man, prophesy: This is what the Lord says! You are to proclaim:

A sword! A sword is sharpened
and also polished.

A third of your people will die by plague and be consumed by famine within you; a third will fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter a third to every direction of the wind, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

“Or if I bring a sword against that land and say: Let a sword pass through it, so that I wipe out both man and animal from it,

The enemy said:
“I will pursue, I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil.
My desire will be gratified at their expense.
I will draw my sword;
my hand will destroy them.”

I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.

when I sharpen My flashing sword,
and My hand takes hold of judgment,
I will take vengeance on My adversaries
and repay those who hate Me.

Rise up, Lord!
Confront him; bring him down.
With Your sword, save me from the wicked.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger—
the staff in their hands is My wrath.

When My sword has drunk its fill

in the heavens,

it will then come down on Edom
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.

Oh, sword of the Lord!
How long will you be restless?
Go back to your sheath;
be still; be silent!

You are My battle club,
My weapons of war.
With you I will smash nations;
with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.

You Cushites will also be slain by My sword.

Sword, awake against My shepherd,
against the man who is My associate—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
I will also turn My hand against the little ones.

The righteous

He spoke as I listened to the others, “Pass through the city after him and start killing; do not show pity or spare them!

It is all the same. Therefore I say,
“He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”

Everything is the same for everyone: there is one fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not sacrifice. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as for the one who takes an oath, so for the one who fears an oath.

If they ask you, ‘Where will we go?’ you must tell them: This is what the Lord says:

Those destined for death, to death;
those destined for the sword, to the sword.
Those destined for famine, to famine;
those destined for captivity, to captivity.

General references

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”