TSK · Ezekiel 21:27

A ruler will be established from Jacob; he will destroy the remains of the city.’”

During his days the godly will flourish; peace will prevail as long as the moon remains in the sky.

“I, the LORD, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land.

Even now siege ramps have been built up around the city in order to capture it. War, starvation, and disease are sure to make the city fall into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. LORD, you threatened that this would happen. Now you can see that it is already taking place.

could my covenant with my servant David and my covenant with the Levites ever be broken. So David will by all means always have a descendant to occupy his throne as king and the Levites will by all means always have priests who will minister before me.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year that Zedekiah ruled over Judah.

“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘I will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it. I will pluck from the top one of its tender twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them– namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

Afterward, the Israelites will turn and seek the LORD their God and their Davidic king. Then they will submit to the LORD in fear and receive his blessings in the future.

A King Will Come and a Remnant Will Prosper(5:1) As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, seemingly insignificant among the clans of Judah– from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf, one whose origins are in the distant past.

Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah:‘I am ready to shake the sky and the earth.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you: he is legitimate and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey– on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.

But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.