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In his right hand was the divination [for] Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
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God's Sovereignty in Divination
Commentators emphasize that while King Nebuchadnezzar used pagan divination to choose his target, God was sovereignly overruling the process. The lot that fell "for Jerusalem" was not a result of chance or pagan power, but the outworking of God's predetermined plan. As Matthew Henry notes, God secretly leads all people to adopt His wise designs.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The third word of judgment. The king of Babylon’s march upon Judea and upon the Ammonites. Destruction is to go out not on Judah only, but also on …
19th Century
Anglican
At his right hand was. —This is too exactly literal. The sense is, into his right hand came the divination which determin…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem All his divinations, whether by arrows, or by images, or by liver…
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By the Spirit of prophecy Ezekiel foresaw Nebuchadnezzar's march from Babylon, which he would determine by divination. The Lord would overturn the …
