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Then take a set of scales and divide up the hair. <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/5.htm">New Living Translation</a> “Son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a razor to shave your head and beard. Use a scale to weigh the hair into three equal parts. <a href="/esv/ezekiel/5.htm">English Standard Version</a> “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair. <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/5.htm">King James Bible</a> And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/5.htm">New King James Version</a> “And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber’s razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair. <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair. <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/5.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber&#8217s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair. <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair. <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “Now as for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair. <a href="/amp/ezekiel/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “And you [Ezekiel], son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor and shave your head and your beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair [into three parts]. <a href="/csb/ezekiel/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as you would a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as you would a barber&#8217s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. <a href="/asv/ezekiel/5.htm">American Standard Version</a> And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; as a barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Ezekiel, son of man, get a sharp sword and use it to cut off your hair and beard. Weigh the hair and divide it into three equal piles. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/5.htm">English Revised Version</a> And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword, as a barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and shalt cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> [The LORD said,] "Son of man, take a sharp blade, and use it as a barber's razor to shave your head and beard. Take scales to weigh your hair and divide it [into three even parts]. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/5.htm">Good News Translation</a> The LORD said, "Mortal man, take a sharp sword and use it to shave off your beard and all your hair. Then weigh the hair on scales and divide it into three parts. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/5.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Now as for you, Son of Man, you are to go find a sharp sword and use it like a barber's razor. You are to cut your hair and beard. Then you are to take a weighing scale and divide your shaved hair into three parts. <a href="/msb/ezekiel/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> ?As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber?s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair. <a href="/net/ezekiel/5.htm">NET Bible</a> "As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's razor. Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off. <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take to thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. <a href="/web/ezekiel/5.htm">World English Bible</a> “You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> “And you, son of man, take a sharp weapon for yourself, take the barber’s razor for yourself, and you have caused [it] to pass over your head, and over your beard, and you have taken weighing scales for yourself, and apportioned them. <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And thou, son of man, take to thee a sharp weapon, the barber's razor thou dost take to thee, and thou hast caused it to pass over thy head, and over thy beard, and thou hast taken to thee weighing scales, and apportioned them. <a href="/slt/ezekiel/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And thou son of man, take to thee a sharp sword, the barber's razor, thou shalt take them to thee and cause to pass over thy head and over thy beard: and take to the balances of weighing and divide them.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife that shaveth the hair: and cause it to pass over thy head, and over thy beard: and take thee a balance to weigh in, and divide the hair. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> “And as for you, son of man, obtain for yourself a sharp knife for shaving hair, and you shall take it and draw it across your head and across your beard. And you shall obtain for yourself a balance for weighing, and you shall divide the hair. <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/5.htm">New American Bible</a> Now you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it like a barber’s razor, to shave your head and your beard. Then take a balance scale for weighing and divide the hair. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> And you, O mortal, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber’s razor and run it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> AND you, Son of man, take a sharp sword, like a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard; then take scales to weigh it, and divide the hair into three parts. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> But you, son of man, take for yourself a sword that is sharpened like the razor of a Barber, and make it pass upon your head and upon your beard, and take for yourself a scale so that it is weighed, and divide them into three parts<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword, as a barber's razor shalt thou take it unto thee, and cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard; then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. <a href="/sep/ezekiel/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And thou, son of man, take thee a sword sharper than a barber's razor; thou shalt procure it for thyself, and shalt bring it upon thine head, and upon thy beard: and thou shalt take a pair of scales, and shalt separate the hair. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=888" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/5.htm">Judgment Against Jerusalem</a> 1<a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: wə·’at·tāh (Conj-w:: Pro-2ms) -- You (masc. sing.). ">“As for you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ḇen- (N-msc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">son</a> <a href="/hebrew/120.htm" title="120: ’ā·ḏām (N-ms) -- Man, mankind. From 'adam; ruddy i.e. A human being.">of man,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: qaḥ- (V-Qal-Imp-ms) -- To take. A primitive root; to take.">take</a> <a href="/hebrew/lə·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2299.htm" title="2299: ḥad·dāh (Adj-fs) -- Sharp. From chadad; sharp.">a sharp</a> <a href="/hebrew/2719.htm" title="2719: ḥe·reḇ (N-fs) -- A sword. From charab; drought; also a cutting instrument, as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement.">sword,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: tiq·qā·ḥen·nāh (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms:: 3fse) -- To take. A primitive root; to take.">use it</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/1532.htm" title="1532: hag·gal·lā·ḇîm (Art:: N-mp) -- A barber. From an unused root meaning to shave; a barber.">as a barber’s</a> <a href="/hebrew/8593.htm" title="8593: ta·‘ar (N-msc) -- A razor, sheath. From arah; a knife or razor: also a scabbard.">razor,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5674.htm" title="5674: wə·ha·‘ă·ḇar·tā (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjPerf-2ms) -- To pass over, through, or by, pass on. A primitive root; to cross over; used very widely of any transition; specifically, to cover.">and shave</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al- (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7218.htm" title="7218: rō·šə·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- Head. From an unused root apparently meaning to shake; the head, whether literal or figurative.">your head</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: wə·‘al- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2206.htm" title="2206: zə·qā·ne·ḵā (N-csc:: 2ms) -- Beard, chin. From zaqen; the beard.">and beard.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: wə·lā·qaḥ·tā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2ms) -- To take. A primitive root; to take.">Then take</a> <a href="/hebrew/lə·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/3976.htm" title="3976: mō·zə·nê (N-mdc) -- Balances, scales. From 'azan; a pair of scales.">a set of scales</a> <a href="/hebrew/4948.htm" title="4948: miš·qāl (N-ms) -- Weight. From shaqal; weight; hence, weighing."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2505.htm" title="2505: wə·ḥil·laq·tām (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjPerf-2ms:: 3mp) -- To be smooth, to apportion, separate. A primitive root; to be smooth; by implication to apportion or separate.">and divide the hair.</a> 2When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm">Leviticus 21:5</a> Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies. <a href="/isaiah/7-20.htm">Isaiah 7:20</a> On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well. <a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm">Jeremiah 7:29</a> Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’ <a href="/jeremiah/25-9.htm">Jeremiah 25:9-11</a> behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation. / Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. / And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. <a href="/jeremiah/34-2.htm">Jeremiah 34:2</a> The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down. <a href="/2_kings/25-1.htm">2 Kings 25:1-3</a> So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. / And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. / By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. <a href="/2_kings/25-9.htm">2 Kings 25:9-10</a> He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building. / And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem. <a href="/2_chronicles/36-17.htm">2 Chronicles 36:17-19</a> So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, / who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials. / Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value. <a href="/daniel/9-11.htm">Daniel 9:11-12</a> All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You. / You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem. <a href="/amos/7-17.htm">Amos 7:17</a> Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’” <a href="/micah/1-16.htm">Micah 1:16</a> Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile. <a href="/matthew/24-2.htm">Matthew 24:2</a> “Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” <a href="/matthew/24-15.htm">Matthew 24:15-21</a> So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), / then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. / Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house. ... <a href="/luke/19-43.htm">Luke 19:43-44</a> For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. / They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” <a href="/luke/21-20.htm">Luke 21:20-24</a> But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near. / Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country stay out of the city. / For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. ...</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a barber's razor, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take you balances to weigh, and divide the hair.son.take<a href="/ezekiel/44-20.htm">Ezekiel 44:20</a> Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.<a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm">Leviticus 21:5</a> They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.<a href="/isaiah/7-20.htm">Isaiah 7:20</a> In the same day shall the Lord shave with a rasor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.then<a href="/daniel/5-27.htm">Daniel 5:27</a> TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/32-10.htm">Balances</a> <a href="/jeremiah/48-37.htm">Beard</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-26.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/ezra/9-3.htm">Chin</a> <a href="/isaiah/58-7.htm">Divide</a> <a href="/jeremiah/49-32.htm">Hair</a> <a href="/ezekiel/1-26.htm">Head</a> <a href="/jeremiah/36-23.htm">Knife</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm">Making</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-20.htm">Razor</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-10.htm">Scales</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-11.htm">Separating</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-11.htm">Sharp</a> <a href="/jeremiah/47-5.htm">Shave</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-9.htm">Sword</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm">Using</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm">Weigh</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-18.htm">Weighing</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/45-10.htm">Balances</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-17.htm">Beard</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-8.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/leviticus/13-29.htm">Chin</a> <a href="/ezekiel/42-20.htm">Divide</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-3.htm">Hair</a> <a href="/ezekiel/8-3.htm">Head</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-2.htm">Knife</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Making</a> <a href="/numbers/6-5.htm">Razor</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-4.htm">Scales</a> <a href="/ezekiel/42-20.htm">Separating</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-9.htm">Sharp</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-31.htm">Shave</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-2.htm">Sword</a> <a href="/ezekiel/9-5.htm">Using</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-11.htm">Weigh</a> <a href="/acts/27-13.htm">Weighing</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 5</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Under the type of hair</a> 5. <a href="/ezekiel/5-5.htm">is shown the judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion</a> 12. <a href="/ezekiel/5-12.htm">by famine, sword, and dispersion</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>As for you, son of man The term "son of man" is a title used frequently in Ezekiel, emphasizing the prophet's humanity and his role as a representative of the people. It underscores the distinction between God and man, highlighting Ezekiel's position as a mediator of divine messages. This title is also used in the New Testament, notably by Jesus, to emphasize His incarnation and role as the Messiah.take a sharp sword The use of a sword, rather than a traditional razor, signifies the severity and violence of the coming judgment upon Jerusalem. Swords are often symbolic of divine judgment in the Bible, as seen in passages like <a href="/isaiah/34-5.htm">Isaiah 34:5-6</a> and <a href="/revelation/19-15.htm">Revelation 19:15</a>. This imagery would resonate with the audience, familiar with the sword as an instrument of war and destruction.use it as a barber’s razor Shaving the head and beard was a sign of mourning and humiliation in ancient Near Eastern cultures. For a priest like Ezekiel, who was forbidden to shave his head (<a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm">Leviticus 21:5</a>), this act would symbolize extreme disgrace and the breaking of covenantal norms. It reflects the depth of Israel's spiritual apostasy and the resulting divine judgment.and shave your head and beard This act symbolizes the complete removal of glory and honor, as hair was often associated with strength and dignity (e.g., Samson in <a href="/judges/16.htm">Judges 16</a>). The shaving of the head and beard would be a public sign of shame and mourning, indicating the total devastation that would come upon Jerusalem.Then take a set of scales and divide the hair The use of scales suggests precision and careful measurement, indicating that the judgment would be exact and just. This imagery connects to the theme of divine justice, as seen in passages like <a href="/daniel/5-27.htm">Daniel 5:27</a>, where Belshazzar is weighed and found wanting. The division of hair into parts foreshadows the different fates awaiting the people of Jerusalem, as detailed in the subsequent verses.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet called by God to deliver His messages to the Israelites during their Babylonian exile. Known for his symbolic actions and visions. 2. <a href="/topical/s/son_of_man.htm">Son of Man</a> A title used for Ezekiel, emphasizing his humanity and role as a representative of the people before God. 3. <a href="/topical/b/babylon.htm">Babylon</a> The place of exile for the Israelites, where Ezekiel prophesied. It represents a place of judgment and purification for God's people. 4. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The city that is the focus of God's judgment in Ezekiel's prophecies, symbolized by the shaving of Ezekiel's hair. 5. <a href="/topical/s/sword_and_scales.htm">Sword and Scales</a> Instruments used in the symbolic act. The sword represents judgment, while the scales signify the weighing and division of consequences.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_judgment.htm">Symbolism of Judgment</a> Ezekiel's act of shaving his head and beard symbolizes the severe judgment coming upon Jerusalem. It serves as a visual prophecy of the city's impending destruction and the people's humiliation. <a href="/topical/r/role_of_the_prophet.htm">Role of the Prophet</a> Ezekiel's obedience in performing this symbolic act demonstrates the prophet's role as a messenger of God's truth, even when the message is difficult or unpopular. <a href="/topical/d/divine_justice.htm">Divine Justice</a> The use of scales to divide the hair signifies God's precise and fair judgment. It reminds us that God weighs our actions and administers justice accordingly. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a> The drastic nature of Ezekiel's actions serves as a call to repentance for the Israelites. It encourages us to examine our lives and turn back to God before facing His judgment. <a href="/topical/f/faithfulness_in_adversity.htm">Faithfulness in Adversity</a> Ezekiel's faithfulness in delivering God's message, despite the challenging circumstances, inspires us to remain steadfast in our faith and duties, even when faced with trials.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 5</a> <a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_7_align_with_restoration.htm">If Ezekiel 7 portrays imminent destruction, how do we align that with later passages in the Bible that describe restoration and continued divine protection?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_about_shaving.htm">What are the Bible's teachings on shaving?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_about_mime.htm">What does the Bible say about mime?</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_ezekiel_5_11-12's_punishment.htm">In Ezekiel 5:11-12, how can we reconcile the promised devastating punishment (famine, sword, and scattering) with accounts from other biblical or secular sources?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(1) Take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor.--Rather, take thee a sharp sword, as a barber's razor shalt thou take it to thee. The word knife is the same as that used twice in <a href="/ezekiel/5-2.htm" title="You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.">Ezekiel 5:2</a>, and translated once by knife and once by sword. It is occasionally used for any sharp-cutting instrument, but is most commonly taken, as here, for a sword. The English version also neglects to notice the pronoun in the second clause. The thought is plainly that the prophet is to take a sword, on account of its symbolism, and use it instead of a razor.Upon thine head, and upon thy beard.--The cutting off the hair was a common mark of mourning (see <a href="/job/1-20.htm" title="Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshipped,">Job 1:20</a>; <a href="/isaiah/22-12.htm" title="And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:">Isaiah 22:12</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm" title="Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.">Jeremiah 7:29</a>); but the allusion here seems to be rather to <a href="/isaiah/7-20.htm" title="In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.">Isaiah 7:20</a>, in which God describes his coming judgments upon Israel as a shaving, "with a razor that is hired . . . by the king of Assyria," of the head and the beard. The symbolism was the more marked because Ezekiel was a priest, and the priests were expressly forbidden in the law to shave either the head or the beard (<a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm" title="They shall not make baldness on their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.">Leviticus 21:5</a>). The shaving, therefore, of a priest's head and beard with a sword betokened a most desolating judgment. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 1. - Take thee a barber's razor, etc. The series of symbolic acts is carried further. Recollections of Isaiah and Leviticus mingle strangely in the prophet's mind. The former had made the "razor" the symbol of the devastation wrought by an invading army (<a href="/isaiah/7-20.htm">Isaiah 7:20</a>). The latter had forbidden its use for the head and beard of the priests (<a href="/leviticus/19-27.htm">Leviticus 19:27</a>; <a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm">Leviticus 21:5</a>). Once again Ezekiel is commanded to do a forbidden thing as a symbolic act. He is, for the moment, the representative of the people of Jerusalem, and there is to be, as of old, a great destruction of that people as "by a razor that is hired." The word for "barber" (perhaps "hair cutter") does not occur elsewhere in the Old Testament, but its use may be noted as showing that then, as now, the "barber" was a recognized institution in every Eastern town. The word for "knife" (<a href="/joshua/5-2.htm">Joshua 5:2</a>; <a href="/1_kings/18-28.htm">1 Kings 18:28</a>) is used in ver. 2, and commonly throughout the Old Testament, for "sword," and is so translated here by the LXX. and Vulgate. The prophet is to take a "sword" and use it as a razor, to make the symbolism more effective. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Now you, וְאַתָּ֨ה (wə·’at·tāh) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_859.htm">Strong's 859: </a> Thou and thee, ye and you son בֶן־ (ḇen-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son of man, אָדָ֜ם (’ā·ḏām) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_120.htm">Strong's 120: </a> Ruddy, a human being take קַח־ (qaḥ-) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3947.htm">Strong's 3947: </a> To take a sharp חַדָּ֗ה (ḥad·dāh) Adjective - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2299.htm">Strong's 2299: </a> Sharp sword, חֶ֣רֶב (ḥe·reḇ) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2719.htm">Strong's 2719: </a> Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword use תִּקָּחֶ֣נָּה (tiq·qā·ḥen·nāh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3947.htm">Strong's 3947: </a> To take it as a barber’s הַגַּלָּבִים֙ (hag·gal·lā·ḇîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1532.htm">Strong's 1532: </a> A barber razor, תַּ֤עַר (ta·‘ar) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8593.htm">Strong's 8593: </a> A knife, razor, a scabbard and shave וְהַעֲבַרְתָּ֥ (wə·ha·‘ă·ḇar·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5674.htm">Strong's 5674: </a> To pass over, through, or by, pass on your head רֹאשְׁךָ֖ (rō·šə·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7218.htm">Strong's 7218: </a> The head and beard. זְקָנֶ֑ךָ (zə·qā·ne·ḵā) Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2206.htm">Strong's 2206: </a> Beard, chin Then take וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ (wə·lā·qaḥ·tā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3947.htm">Strong's 3947: </a> To take a set of scales מֹאזְנֵ֥י (mō·zə·nê) Noun - mdc <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3976.htm">Strong's 3976: </a> A pair of scales and divide the hair. וְחִלַּקְתָּֽם׃ (wə·ḥil·laq·tām) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2505.htm">Strong's 2505: </a> To be smooth, to apportion, separate <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/5-1.htm">Ezekiel 5:1 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-1.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 5:1 You son of man take a sharp (Ezek. 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