Ezekiel 11:8 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 11:8

Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God.

KJV

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ASV

Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

WEB

You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you, declares the Lord GOD.

YLT

A sword ye have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

DBT

Ye have feared the sword, and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

About this book

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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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Jeremiah 42:16
Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
Proverbs 10:24
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Isaiah 24:17–18
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
Job 3:25
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

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Let them know that when God has got them out of the midst of Jerusalem he will pursue them with his judgments wherever he finds them, the judgments which they thought to shelter themselves from by keeping close in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The death of Pelatiah was an earnest of the complete accomplishment of this prophecy. Note, God is pleased often-times to single out some sinners, and to make them monuments of his justice, for warning to others of what is coming; and some that thought themselves very safe and snatched away suddenly, and drop down dead in an instant, as Ananias and Sapphira at Peter's feet when he prophesied.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

A message of comfort to those who were carried captives into Babylon and were there in the depth of despondency, thinking they should never rise. And, as the former are assured that God has judgments in store for them notwithstanding their present security, so the later are assured that God has mercy in store for them notwithstanding their present distress,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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