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Pronouncing Royal Doom
EZEKIEL: THE WATCHMAN · JUDGMENT
Ready-To-Post Teaching
Remove the turban and take off the crown. The one addressed is Zedekiah, and even the form of address is a demotion - he is called a prince, nasi, not a king, melek.
Heiser reads the gesture plainly: taking off the crown means you are out of a job. I am dethroning you.
Then comes a ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. That triple repetition is not liturgical. It is a Hebrew way of forming a superlative - the same construction Heiser points to when cautioning against reading the Trinity out of the holy, holy, holy of Isaiah 6.
Scripture links:
- Ezekiel 21:26-27 - remove the turban, take off the crown; a ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it.
Hebrew emphasises by repeating. Reading doctrine into the repetition is how careful readers go wrong.
What the Scripture Says
- Ezekiel 21:26ESV
thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low, and bring low that which is exalted.
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