Because it is a trial— Because [this sword] hath been approved, and the sceptre when it shall not spare it shall be no more, saith the Lord God. God foretels that the sceptre of Israel shall be no more, after the sword of Nebuchadrezzar had smitten it; as it had happened before, when, Jeconiah being driven out, Zedekiah was appointed king. The sceptre here means only the royal sceptre in the house of David, and not that supreme authority which Jacob foretold should not forsake Judah till the coming of the Messiah.
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Ezekiel 21:13
13 Because it is a trial,d and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.