Ezekiel 5:1

Modern English Version

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Take and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard as a barber’s razor. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.

Cross References

Isaiah 7:20

In that same day the Lord shall shave with a hired razor, from regions beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the legs, and it shall also remove the beard.

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus says the Lord: Go and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

Ezekiel 4:1

You also, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you and inscribe a city on it, even Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 44:20

They shall not shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long. They shall only trim the hair of their heads.

Daniel 5:27

Tekel: you have been weighed in the balances and are found wanting.

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make bald areas on their heads, nor shall they shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.