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Ezekiel 30:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Ezekiel introduces or commands “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt” at Ezekiel 30:21 as “Pharaoh's Broken Arms Contrast with Babylon's Strengthened Arm” develops.
Read It With
- Ezekiel 30:20–26
Read Ezekiel 30:21 inside Ezekiel 30:20–26. The prophetic word through Ezekiel introduces or commands “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt” at Ezekiel 30:21 as “Pharaoh's Broken Arms Contrast with Babylon's Strengthened Arm” develops. The complete unit establishes: A dated oracle says one of Pharaoh's arms is already broken and the other will be broken while Babylon's king receives a strengthened sword and Egyptians scatter.
Why It Needs Context
The prophetic word through Ezekiel introduces or commands “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt” at Ezekiel 30:21 as “Pharaoh's Broken Arms Contrast with Babylon's Strengthened Arm” develops. Its force depends on the complete movement and outcome of Ezekiel 30:20–26; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Ezekiel 30:20–26 — Pharaoh's Broken Arms Contrast with Babylon's Strengthened ArmSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 30:20–26, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 30:20–26
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