"Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. {skirts: Heb. wings}" — Ezekiel 5:3

Ezekiel 5:3 · KJV

“Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. {skirts: Heb. wings}”

— Ezekiel 5:3

Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, {and} smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

Verse 4

Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; {for} thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 5 — Context

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}.

Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. {skirts: Heb. wings}

Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; {for} thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; This {is} Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries {that are} round about her.

Cross References

Jeremiah 52:16

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left {certain} of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

Jeremiah 40:6

Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.

Jeremiah 39:10

But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time. {captain...: or, chief marshal: Heb. chief of the executioners, or, slaughtermen} {at the...: Heb. in that day}

1 Peter 4:18

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Matthew 7:14

Because strait {is} the gate, and narrow {is} the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Because: or, How}

2 Kings 25:12

But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land {to be} vinedressers and husbandmen.

Luke 13:23-24

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,