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The LORD’s word to appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon

바벨론 왕의 칼이 올 두 길을 그리라는 여호와의 말씀

Ezekiel 21:18–27: the LORD’s word comes to the speaker (“I”) 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. It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken. Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand. You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, the Lord GOD says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’” Neither edition closes this word at the end of 21:27. What the king of Babylon does at the parting of the way (21:21–22) is told within this word. The text does not say that the speaker appointed the two ways; it does not name the prince of Israel of 21:25, or say who is meant by “he comes whose right it is” (21:27). The Korean Revised Version reads 그리되 and 그리라 (draw) where WEB reads “appoint” (21:19–20), and 우상에게 묻고 희생의 간을 살펴서 (asks the idols and looks at the liver of the sacrifice) where WEB reads “He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver” (21:21); at 21:23 it names the king of Babylon (바벨론 왕은), where WEB reads “he”; and at 21:25 it reads 이스라엘 왕 (king of Israel), where WEB reads “the prince of Israel”.

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EZK 21:18–27, engwebp
¹⁸The LORD’s word came to me again, saying,
¹⁹“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.
²⁰You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
²¹For 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.
²²In 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.
²³It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.
²⁴“Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.
²⁵“‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
²⁶the Lord GOD says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.
²⁷I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’
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Evidence: Ezekiel 21:18–27

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Entry: The LORD’s word to appoint two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon (event-ezk-21-two-ways-for-the-sword-of-the-king-of-babylon)
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Current wording: Ezekiel 21:18–27: the LORD’s word comes to the speaker (“I”) 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. It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken. Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand. You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, the Lord GOD says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’” Neither edition closes this word at the end of 21:27. What the king of Babylon does at the parting of the way (21:21–22) is told within this word. The text does not say that the speaker appointed the two ways; it does not name the prince of Israel of 21:25, or say who is meant by “he comes whose right it is” (21:27). The Korean Revised Version reads 그리되 and 그리라 (draw) where WEB reads “appoint” (21:19–20), and 우상에게 묻고 희생의 간을 살펴서 (asks the idols and looks at the liver of the sacrifice) where WEB reads “He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver” (21:21); at 21:23 it names the king of Babylon (바벨론 왕은), where WEB reads “he”; and at 21:25 it reads 이스라엘 왕 (king of Israel), where WEB reads “the prince of Israel”.
Cited evidence: EZK 21:18–27, engwebp
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