Ezekiel 21:21 - Tree of Life Version

²¹ Slash to the right, turn to the left—wherever your blade is meeting!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the fork of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows to and fro, he consults the teraphim (household gods), he looks at the liver.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

Common English Bible

²¹ The king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road where the two roads begin and performs his divinations. He shakes the arrows, consults the divine images, and inspects the liver.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For the king of Babylon stood at the fork, at the head of the two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows; he inquired of idols, and he consulted entrails.

Ezekiel 21:21 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 31:19

But while Laban went to shear his flocks, Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father,

Genesis 31:30

So now, when you up and left because you really missed your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

2 Kings 23:24

Moreover, Josiah got rid of the necromancers and the mediums, the teraphim and the idols, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem—in order to confirm the words of the Torah that were written in the scroll that Hilkiah the kohen found in the House of Adonai.

Proverbs 16:10

An oracle is on the lips of the king— let his mouth never be treacherous in judgment.

Proverbs 16:33

The lot is cast into the lap, but their very decision is from Adonai.

Proverbs 21:1

A king’s heart is like a stream of water in the hand of Adonai; he directs it wherever He wants.

Hosea 3:4

For Bnei-Yisrael will remain for many days without king, without prince, without sacrifice, without sacred pillar, and without ephod or teraphim.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God.

Zechariah 10:2

The idols utter deceit and diviners see lies. They relate false dreams and comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep, afflicted because there is no shepherd.

Numbers 22:7

The elders of Moab and Midian left with divination fees in their hand. When they came to Balaam, they told him Balak’s words.

Numbers 23:23

There is no sorcery effective against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel! Now it will be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘See what God has done!’

Numbers 23:28

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, overlooking the wasteland.

Matthew 22:9

So go into the highways and byways, and invite everyone you find to the wedding feast.’

Acts 16:16

It so happened that as we were going to prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of divination, who was bringing her masters much profit from her fortune-telling.

Deuteronomy 18:10

There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or a fortune-teller, soothsayer, omen reader, or sorcerer,

Judges 17:5

Now the man Micah had a shrine of gods, and he made an ephod and household idols, and consecrated one of his sons to become his priest.

Judges 18:14

Then the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household idols, a carved image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you have to do.”

Judges 18:17

The five men who had gone to spy out the land went up and entered there. They took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols and the molten image, while the priest was standing by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.

Judges 18:18

Now after these had gone into Micah’s house and taken the carved image, the ephod, the household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 18:20

So the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the household idols and the carved image, and went along among the people.

Judges 18:24

“You have taken away my gods which I made,” he said, “and the priest, and walked away! What do I have left? And how then do you say to me, ‘What’s the matter with you?’”

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is like the sin of divination and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry. Since you have rejected Adonai’s word, He has also rejected you as king.”