Ezekiel 5:2 meaning and explanation

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, Berean Standard Bible

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Ezekiel 5:2 comes from a sign act that God commands the prophet to perform in the years before Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 586 BC. After shaving his head and beard as a barber would, Ezekiel divides the hair into three parts.

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