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Ezekiel 21:21

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parting: Heb. mother

to use: Numbers 23:28; Deuteronomy 18:10; 1 Samuel 15:23; Proverbs 16:10; Acts 16:16

he made: Or, as the Vulgate, "he mingled his arrows:" "They wrote on several arrows," says Jerome, "the names of the cities they intended to assault; and then putting them altogether promiscuously in a quiver, they drew then out thence as lots are drawn; and that city whose name was written on the arrow first drawn, was the city they first made war on."

arrows: or, knives

images: Heb. teraphim, Genesis 31:19, Genesis 31:30; Judges 17:5, Judges 18:14, Judges 18:18, Judges 18:20, Judges 18:24; 2 Kings 23:24; Hosea 3:4, Hosea 4:12; Zechariah 10:2

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