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A Sword Made Ready: A City's Catalog of Sin and the Story of Two Sisters | Ezekiel 21–23
Episode Overview
Today we read Ezekiel chapters 21 through 23. The chapter opens with the song of the sword—a blade sharpened, polished, and made ready. Ezekiel is instructed to groan out loud, with breaking heart and bitter grief, in front of the people. The messenger is not detached from the message. Judgment here is described as falling on righteous and wicked together, the terrible cost of a crisis that gentler warnings could not prevent.
Chapter 22 then lays out the charges without ornament: blood shed in the streets, idols, Sabbaths profaned, bribes taken, parents dishonored, the…
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