Ezekiel 5:1-2

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ "As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword. Take and use it as a barber's razor to shave your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair. ² »You should burn one-third of the hair in the fire at the center of the city when the siege is over. Take one third and strike it with the sword all around the city. The remaining one third you shall scatter to the wind. I will unsheathe a sword behind them.

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Ezekiel 5:1 Under the type of hair,
Ezekiel 5:5 is shewn the judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion;
Ezekiel 5:12 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 attempting 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.
Ezekiel 44:20; Leviticus 21:5; Isaiah 7:20
then.
Daniel 5:27