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What does Ezekiel 21:19 mean?
"“Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city."
— Ezekiel 21:19 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Gather yourselves together. Go to the right. Set yourselves in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set.
I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”
Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying,
“Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. They both will come out of one land, and mark out a place. Mark it out at the head of the way to the city.
You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
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 back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.
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