Ezekiel Dramatizes Jerusalem’s Fall

“Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword,(A) use it as you would a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. You are to burn up a third of it in the city when the days of the siege have ended;(B) you are 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 draw a sword to chase after them. But you are to take a few strands from the hair and secure them in the folds of your robe.(C) Take some more of them, throw them into the fire, and burn them in it.(D) A fire will spread from it to the whole house of Israel.

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