Ezekiel 21:20-22

Good News Translation

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;^[a] he consults his idols; he examines the liver of a sacrificed animal. ²²Now! His right hand holds the arrow marked ‘Jerusalem’! It tells him to go and set up battering rams, to shout the battle cry, to place battering rams against the gates, to throw up earthworks, and to dig trenches.

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Footnotes

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.