Ezekiel 21:19-21

Good News Translation

¹⁹“Mortal man,” he said, “mark out two roads by which the king of Babylonia can come with his sword. Both of them are to start in the same country. Put up a signpost where the roads fork.^[a] ²⁰One will show the king the way to the Ammonite city of Rabbah, and the other the way to Judah, to the fortified city, Jerusalem. ²¹The king of Babylonia stands by the signpost at the fork of the road. To discover which way to go, he shakes the arrows;^[b] he consults his idols; he examines the liver of a sacrificed animal.

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 21:19 Probable text Put … fork; Hebrew unclear.
Ezekiel 21:21 When faced with a decision, people in ancient times would sometimes take a handful of arrows, throw them down, and study the pattern in which they fell, in order to learn what to do.