Yehezkiel 5:2
Konteks5:2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.
Yehezkiel 5:10
Konteks5:10 Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, 1 and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors 2 to the winds. 3
[5:10] 1 tn In context “you” refers to the city of Jerusalem. To make this clear for the modern reader, “Jerusalem” has been supplied in the translation in apposition to “you.”
[5:10] sn This cannibalism would occur as a result of starvation due to the city being besieged. It is one of the judgments threatened for a covenant law violation (Lev 26:29; see also Deut 28:53; Jer 19:9; Lam 2:20; Zech 11:9).