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Ezekiel 5:1

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You, son of man, take a sharp sword; [as] a barber's razor shall you take it to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

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Jerusalem was Judah’s capital and the site of the temple, representing the covenant community before God. In Ezekiel’s enacted sign, shaving and dividing his hair dramatized the coming judgment on Jerusalem’s inhabitants because of their persistent rebellion.

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Ezekiel 5:1 mentions Jerusalem.

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