Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

The city

General references

Bible References

Shalt burn

Ezekiel 5:12
A third of you will die by pestilence, starving because of the famine in your midst. Another third will die violently by the violence of war around you. The final third I'll scatter to the wind as I unsheathe my sword to pursue them.
Jeremiah 9:21
For death comes up through our windows; it has come into our palaces to eliminate children from the streets and young men from the town squares.
Jeremiah 15:2
"When they say to you, "Where can we go?', say to them, "This is what the LORD says: "Those destined for death, to death will go; those destined for the sword, to the sword will go; and those destined for captivity, to captivity will go.
Jeremiah 24:10
I'll send the sword, famine, and plague against them until they're completely destroyed from the land which I gave them and their ancestors.'"
Jeremiah 38:2
"This is what the LORD says: "Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, by famine, and by the plague, but the one who goes over to the Chaldeans will live. His life will be spared, and he will live.'

The city

Ezekiel 4:1
"And now Son of Man, you are to take a brick, set it in front of you, and inscribe on it the outline of the city that is, Jerusalem.

I will draw

Ezekiel 5:12
A third of you will die by pestilence, starving because of the famine in your midst. Another third will die violently by the violence of war around you. The final third I'll scatter to the wind as I unsheathe my sword to pursue them.
Ezekiel 12:14
I'll scatter every attendant who surrounds him, along with his entire army, to every wind. When I unsheathe my sword to pursue them,
Leviticus 26:33
"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins.
Jeremiah 9:16
I'll scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I'll pursue them with the sword until I've finished them off."
Amos 9:2
"Even if they burrow into Sheol, from there my hand will find them. Even if they ascend to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.

General references

Ezekiel 6:8
I'll leave a remnant among you those who will escape the sword when I'll have scattered you throughout the earth.

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