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But then you must get a few of those hairs and wrap them up in your robe. Take some of those hairs and throw them into the fire. This will show that a fire will start there and burn throughout the whole house of Israel.[a]

Then the Lord God said to me, “The brick is a picture of Jerusalem. I put Jerusalem in the middle of other nations with countries all around her.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 5:4 house of Israel This probably means the people of the northern ten tribes of Israel.

But take a few hairs and tuck them away in the folds of your garment.(A) Again, take a few of these and throw them into the fire(B) and burn them up. A fire will spread from there to all Israel.

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.(C)

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