Cross references

Ezekiel 5:2

When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 5:2 BSB

Ezekiel 5:2 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ezekiel 5:12 (10 votes) and Leviticus 26:33 (6 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Leviticus 26 to Zechariah 13.

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Which verses does Ezekiel 5:2 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Ezekiel 5:1210 votes

    A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

  2. But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

  3. “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem. Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides. …

  4. And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.

  5. I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

  6. If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’

  7. For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares. Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

  8. And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

  9. “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.

  10. Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down. Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.

Which verses point to Ezekiel 5:2?

The 10 strongest of 22.