| Ezekiel 21:21
| For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he enquired of the idols, and consulted entrails.
| Shuffling. Hebrew, "polishing." Syriac, etc., "shooting an arrow upwards." He was undetermined which to attack first, and perhaps wrote Jerusalem on one and Rabbath on another arrow; (St. Jerome, etc.; Calmet) or which way the arrow fell the army followed. (Haydock) --- Many nations have adopted such superstitious practices. --- Idols. Hebrew Teraphim, Genesis 31:19. (Calmet) --- Entrails. The Chaldeans taught the Lydians and they the Tuscans. (Grotius) --- At first this was done only to see if the victims were sound. (Cicero, Div.)
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