Ezekiel 12:20 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 12:20

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

KJV

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ASV

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

WEB

The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

YLT

And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I am Jehovah.'

DBT

And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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22 verses on the floor

Isaiah 7:23–24
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Jeremiah 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Isaiah 3:26
And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

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A message is sent from God to the people, to assure them that all these predictions should have their accomplishment very shortly, and not be deferred, as they flattered themselves they would be,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

(2.) How good the effect of this judgment should be: You shall know that I am the Lord; and if, by these judgments, they learn to know him aright, that will make up the loss of all they are deprived of by these desolations. Those are happy afflictions, how grievous soever to flesh and blood, that help to introduce us into and improve us in an acquaintance with God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 12:20JER 4:7 JER 2:15
EZE 12:20JER 25:9 JER 18:16
EZE 12:20JER 25:9 JER 1:15
EZE 12:20JER 4:7 EZE 26:7-10
EZE 12:20JER 4:7 ISA 6:11
EZE 12:20JER 4:7 JER 5:6
EZE 12:20JER 25:9 ISA 13:3
EZE 12:20JER 4:7 ISA 1:7

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