Ezekiel 5:2
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Cross-reference
Ezekiel 5:12 interprets the hair division: a third by pestilence, sword, and scattering — directly explaining the symbol.
Ezekiel 12:14 uses the same phrase 'scatter toward every wind' for the people, directly echoing the hair scattered in the wind.
Ezekiel 4:1-8 is another symbolic act of Jerusalem's siege, forming a paired sign with the shaving and dividing of hair.
Ezekiel 6:8 speaks of survivors scattered among nations, escaping the sword — continuing the scattering and sword theme.
Leviticus 26:33 pronounces the covenant curse of scattering among nations and sword pursuit—the very judgments Ezekiel enacts.
Jeremiah 15:2 lists sword, famine, death, captivity — a parallel list of judgments matching Ezekiel's threefold division.
Jeremiah 24:10 lists the same triad of judgment—sword, famine, pestilence—that Ezekiel's symbolic haircut represents for Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 38:2 warns that staying in the city brings sword, famine, and pestilence—mirroring the threefold judgment Ezekiel acts out.
2 Kings 25:11 records the actual exile of Jerusalem's survivors, fulfilling the scattering Ezekiel's sign foretold.
Jeremiah 31:10 promises God will gather the scattered — opposite to Ezekiel 5:2's scattering judgment.
In Zechariah 13:8, a similar division of judgment appears: two-thirds perish, one-third survives, echoing the fractions in Ezekiel's symbolic act.
Jeremiah 9:16 also speaks of scattering among nations and sending the sword, reinforcing the fate Ezekiel's sign portrays.
Jeremiah 24:9 describes Israel as a horror among nations where God drives them — matches dispersion and curse context of Ezekiel 5:2.