Ezekiel 5:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

One third of the hair you shall burn in the fire inside the city when the days of the siege are completed; one third you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city; and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:24

I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.

Jeremiah 15:2

And when they say to you, “Where shall we go?” you shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: Those destined for pestilence, to pestilence, and those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine, and those destined for captivity, to captivity.

Jeremiah 24:10

And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them until they are utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.

Jeremiah 38:2

“Thus says the Lord: Those who stay in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but those who go out to the Chaldeans shall live; they shall have their lives as a prize of war and live.

Jeremiah 39:1

This is how Jerusalem was captured: in the ninth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, in the tenth month, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it;

Jeremiah 39:2

in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.

Ezekiel 12:14

I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword behind them.

Ezekiel 17:21

All the pick of his troops shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to every wind, and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken.

Ezekiel 5:10

Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.

Ezekiel 5:12

One third of you shall die of pestilence or be consumed by famine among you; one third shall fall by the sword around you; and one third I will scatter to every wind and will unsheathe the sword after them.

Ezekiel 5:3

Then you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the hem of your robe.

Leviticus 26:33

And you I will scatter among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword against you; your land shall be a desolation and your cities a waste.

Amos 9:4

And though they go into captivity in front of their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good.

Zechariah 13:8

In the whole land, says the Lord, two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one-third shall be left alive.