Ezekiel 21:21

WEB

²¹For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim.^[+] He looked in the liver.

KJV

²¹For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

BSB

²¹For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

FBV

²¹The king of Babylon is standing at the fork in the road where the two roads meet looking for a prophetic sign: he casts lots using arrows, he asks advice from idols, and he examines the liver of sacrificial animals.

Extra References

Judges 17:5

⁵The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim,^[+] and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 18:20

²⁰The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.

Proverbs 16:33

³³The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

Acts 16:16

¹⁶As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

Genesis 31:30

³⁰Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

Genesis 31:19

¹⁹Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim^[+] that were her father’s.

Judges 18:18

¹⁸When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

2 Kings 23:24

²⁴Moreover, Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim,^[+] and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the LORD’s house.

Hosea 4:12

¹²My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

Judges 18:24

²⁴He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”