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Ezekiel 5:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
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Role in This Section
The narrated sign act and its explanation states or reports “Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of…” at Ezekiel 5:2 as a specific part of “Shaved Hair Is Divided among Fire, Sword, Wind, and Remnant.”
Read It With
- Ezekiel 5:1–4
Read Ezekiel 5:2 with 5:1–4. By itself, “Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Ezekiel shaves with a sword, weighs the hair, assigns thirds to burning, striking, and scattering, and preserves a small remnant that itself faces fire.
Why It Needs Context
Ezekiel 5:2 performs a local role inside “Shaved Hair Is Divided among Fire, Sword, Wind, and Remnant.” The narrated sign act and its explanation states or reports “Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of…” at Ezekiel 5:2 as a specific part of “Shaved Hair Is Divided among Fire, Sword, Wind, and Remnant.” The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
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Read Ezekiel 5:1–4 — Shaved Hair Is Divided among Fire, Sword, Wind, and RemnantSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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 5:1–4, 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 5:1–4
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