Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 21:19

19 Also thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land, and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

Paint, mark out, or describe on Tile or Tablet as chap. 4. 1. two roads and set it before they Countrey-men in Babylon, and let them know that the Arms, and Sword of Nebuchadnezzar are designed for exploits, where those ways lead them, thus Typically Ezekiel foretells the Invasion, the King of Babylon would make.

The ways, though two in the course, they lead as streams that divide, and multiply, yet

must take their rise from one and the same Land, that is Babylon; there the Prophet must begin to mark out the way, which is to be drawn out, till it divide into two.

Pitch on some convenient place, where thou mayst place Nebuchadnezzars Army, he, and his council of War consulting where this one way divides into two, which was on the edge of the Desert of Arabia as Nebuchadnezzar pursued his march from Babylon.

Either, where the way begins at Babylon. Or rather at the head where each distinct way runs out, toward either Rabbath of the Ammonites, or Ierusalem; for there Nebuchadnezzar will cast lots,