10 It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Shall we then make mirth? It scorns the scepter of my son, every tree.
Ezekiel 21:10 Cross References - ACV
2 Samuel 7:14
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men,
Esther 3:15
15 The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
Psalms 2:7-9
7 I will tell of the decree. LORD said to me, Thou are my Son, this day I have begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the outermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
9 Thou shall break them with a rod of iron, thou shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Psalms 89:26-32
26 He shall cry to me, Thou are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
27 I also will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
28 I will keep my loving kindness for him for evermore. And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
29 I will also make his seed to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
30 If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances,
31 if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments,
32 then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes,
Psalms 89:38-45
38 But thou have cast off and rejected. Thou have been angry with thine anointed.
39 Thou have abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou have profaned his crown to the ground.
40 Thou have broken down all his hedges. Thou have brought his strongholds to ruin.
41 All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 Thou have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou have made all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.
44 Thou have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
45 The days of his youth thou have shortened. Thou have covered him with shame. Selah.
Psalms 110:5-6
Ecclesiastes 3:4
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance,
Isaiah 5:12-14
12 And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.
13 Therefore my people have gone into captivity for lack of knowledge, and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure. And their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
Isaiah 22:12-14
12 And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
13 And, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
14 And LORD of hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, says the Lord, LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 34:5-6
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of LORD is filled with blood. It is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Jeremiah 46:4
4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets. Furbish the spears. Put on the coats of mail.
Ezekiel 19:11-14
11 And it had strong twigs for the scepters of those who bore rule. And their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
12 But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong twigs were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.
13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
14 And fire has gone out of the twigs of its branches. It has devoured its fruit, so that there is no strong twig in it to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Ezekiel 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of LORD. Thus says the lord LORD: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree. The flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt by it.
Ezekiel 21:25-27
25 And thou, O deadly wounded wicked man, the ruler of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
26 thus says the lord LORD: Remove the miter, and take off the crown. This shall be no more the same. Exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also shall be no more, until he comes whose right it is. And I will give it.
Amos 6:3-7
3 Ye who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near,
4 who lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall,
5 who sing idle songs to the sound of the viol, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David,
6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils, but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore they shall now go captive with the first who go captive, and the revelry of those who stretched themselves shall pass away.
Nahum 1:10
10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.
Nahum 3:3
3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble upon their bodies,
Habakkuk 3:11
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, at the light of thine arrows as they went, at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Luke 21:34-35
Revelation 2:27
27 And he will tend them with a rod of iron (they will be shattered like ceramic vessels), as I also have received from my Father.