Ezekiel 21:14

doubled the third time The reading must mean: let the sword be doubled, tripled! lit. unto a third (sword), i.e. till it be three-fold. Of course there were not to be three swords or even two; what is called for is a double and triple intensity and operation of the one sword (cf. Ezekiel 21:16).

greatmen that are slain Rather: the great one that is slain, i.e. doomed to be slain ref. being to king Zedekiah, cf. Ezekiel 21:25. A different division of letters gives: the great sword of the slain (collective) which is less probable as "slain" is plur. immediately before.

entereth … privy chambers Rather: which compasseth them about still descriptive of the sword.