Thematic Bible
Ezekiel 5:1 (show verse)
O Thou son of man, take thee then a sharp knife, namely a razor. Take that, and shave the hair of thy head and beard: Then take the scales and weight, and divide the hair asunder.
Art » Primitive » Of the barber
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Barbers
Balances » Used for weighing
Beard » David
Beards » Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Shaves himself
Hair » Symbolical dividing of
Prophecy » Respecting individuals, see under their names » Exemplified in pantomime
Razor » Figurative
Symbols and similitudes » Ezekiel's beard
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Barbers
Balances » Used for weighing
Beard » David
Beards » Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Shaves himself
Hair » Symbolical dividing of
Prophecy » Respecting individuals, see under their names » Exemplified in pantomime
Razor » Figurative
Symbols and similitudes » Ezekiel's beard
Ezekiel 5:2 (show verse)
And burn the third part thereof in the fire in the midst of the city, and cut the other third part in pieces with a knife. As for the third part that remaineth, cast it in the wind, and then show the bare knife.
Ezekiel 5:3 (show verse)
Yet afterward take a little of the same, and bind it in thy coat lap.
Ezekiel 5:4 (show verse)
Then take a courtesy of it, and cast it in the midst of the fire: and burn it in the fire. Out of the same fire shall there go a flame upon the whole house of Israel."
Ezekiel 5:5 (show verse)
Moreover, thus said the LORD God, "This same is Jerusalem. I set her in the midst of the Heathen and nations that are round about her:
Ezekiel 5:6 (show verse)
but she hath despised my judgments more than the Gentiles themselves, and broken my commandments more than the nations that lie round about her. For they have cast out mine ordinances, and not walked in my laws.
Ezekiel 5:7 (show verse)
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as ye with your wickedness far exceed the Heathen that dwell round about you - For ye have not walked in my laws, neither have ye kept mine ordinances -
Ezekiel 5:8 (show verse)
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: I will also come upon thee, for in the midst of thee will I sit in judgment, in the sight of the Heathen,
Ezekiel 5:9 (show verse)
and will handle thee of such a fashion as I never did before, and as I never will do from that time forth, and that because of all thine abominations.
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Ezekiel 5:10 (show verse)
For in thee the fathers shall be fain to eat their own sons, and the sons their own fathers. Such a court will I keep in thee, and the whole remnant will I scatter into all the winds.
Ezekiel 5:11 (show verse)
Wherefore as truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, seeing thou hast defiled my Sanctuary with all manner of abominations and with all thy shameful offenses: For this cause will I also destroy thee. Mine eye shall not oversee thee, neither will I spare thee.
Ezekiel 5:12 (show verse)
One third part within thee shall die of the pestilence and of hunger: Another third part shall be slain down round about thee with the sword: The other third part, that remaineth, will I scatter abroad toward all the winds, and draw out the sword after them.
Ezekiel 5:13 (show verse)
Thus will I perform my indignation and set my wrath against them, and ease myself. So that when I have fulfilled mine anger against them, they shall know that I am the LORD, which with a fervent jealousy have spoken it.
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 5:14 (show verse)
Moreover, I will make thee waste and abhorred before all the Heathen that dwell about thee, and in the sight of all them that go by thee:
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 5:15 (show verse)
so that when I punish thee in my wrath, in mine anger, and with the plague of my hot displeasure, thou shalt be a very abomination, shame, a gasping and wondering stock among the Heathen that lie about thee. Even I, the LORD, have spoken it: and it shall come to pass.
No Themes for this verse.
Ezekiel 5:16 (show verse)
When I shoot among them the perilous darts of hunger, which shall be but death: Yea, therefore shall I shoot them, because I will destroy you. I will increase hunger, and diminish all the provision of bread among you.
Ezekiel 5:17 (show verse)
Plagues and misery will I send you; yea, and wild beasts also to destroy you. Pestilence and bloodsheding shall come upon you, and the sword will I bring over you. Even I, the LORD, have said it."