20 Mark a way (A)for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified. 21 For the king of Babylon stands (B)at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults (C)the teraphim;[a] he looks at the liver. 22 Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, (D)to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, (E)to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.

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  1. Ezekiel 21:21 Or household idols

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