Ezekiel 5:4
Good News Translation
Then take a few of them out again, throw them in the fire, and let them burn up. From them fire will spread to the whole nation of Israel."

New Revised Standard Version
From these, again, you shall take some, throw them into the fire and burn them up; from there a fire will come out against all the house of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Then pull out a few of those hairs and throw them in the fire, so they will also burn. This fire will spread, destroying everyone in Israel.

New American Bible
Take some of these and throw them into the fire and burn them in the fire. Because of this, fire will flash out against the whole house of Israel.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel.

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2 Kings 25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismael, the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama, of the seed royal came, and ten men with him, and smote Godolias; so that he died: and also the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him in Maspha.

Jeremiah 41:1-45:1 And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ismahel the son of Nathanias, the son of Elisama of the royal blood, and the nobles of the king, and ten men with him, came to Godolias the son of Ahicam into Masphath: and they ate bread there together in Masphath. . . .

Jeremiah 52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nabuchodonosor, Nabuzardan the general carried away of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five souls. So all the souls were four thousand six hundred.

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Jeremiah 4:4 Be circumcised to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, ye men of Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my indignation come forth like fire, and burn, and there be none that can quench it because of the wickedness of your thoughts.

Jeremiah 48:45 They that fled from the snare stood in the shadow of Hesebon: but there came a fire out of Hesebon, and a flame out of the midst of Seon, and it shall devour part of Moab, and the crown of the head of the children of tumult.

Context
Judgment Against Jerusalem
3And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak. 4And thou shalt take of them again, and shalt cast them in the midst of the fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and out of it shall come forth a fire into all the house of Israel.5Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about her.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 5:3
And thou shalt take thereof a small number: and shalt bind them in the skirt of thy cloak.

Ezekiel 5:5
Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about her.

Ezekiel 5:3
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