Ezekiel 5:1
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"As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber's razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair. (NASB ©1995)

Leviticus 21:5 'They shall not make any baldness on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts in their flesh.

Isaiah 7:20 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

Ezekiel 44:20 "Also they shall not shave their heads, yet they shall not let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

Daniel 5:27 "'TEKEL '-- you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient. (NASB ©1995)


And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

1-4 Under the type of hair 5-11 is shown the judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion 12-17 by famine, sword, and dispersion

son. In this expressive emblem, the prophet represents the Jewish nation; his hair, the people; the razor, the Chaldeans; the cutting of the hair, the calamities and disgrace coming upon them; the balances, the exact distribution of the Divine judgments; the third part of the hair burnt, those destroyed in the city; the third part smitten with a knife, those slain in trying to escape; the third part scattered to the winds, those who escaped to other countries; the few hairs in his skirt, those left with Gedaliah; and the burning of these, their destruction in Egypt.

take Eze 44:20 Le 21:5 Isa 7:20

then Da 5:27

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