20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and [a]to Judah in Jerusalem the strong city.

21 And the King of Babel stood at the [b]parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, consulting by divination, and made his arrows bright: he consulted with idols, and looked in [c]the liver.

22 At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem to appoint captains to open their mouth in the slaughter, and to lift up their voice with shouting, to lay engines of war against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fortress.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:20 That is, to the tribe of Judah that kept themselves in Jerusalem.
  2. Ezekiel 21:21 To know whether he should go against the Ammonites or them of Jerusalem.
  3. Ezekiel 21:21 He used conjuring and sorcery.

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