Ezekiel 39:3
in Ezekiel 39Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
KJV
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
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This verse in Ezekiel 39
Commentary
2 notes on this verseI will smite thy bow out of thy left hand - The Persians whom Antiochus had in his army, Eze 38:5, were famous as archers, and they may be intended here. The bow is held by the left hand; the arrow is pulled and discharged by the right.
This site's exposition
against thee, O Gog
on Ezekiel 39:1-3
Chapter 39 opens with the same summons that opened the oracle before it, prophesy against Gog, underscoring how certain the sentence already is before a single blow falls. The defeat is described with a soldier's precision, only a sixth part left, the bow struck from the left hand and the arrows made to fall from the right, a warrior stripped of the two things a bowman needs before he ever reaches the field. Fairbairn reads the doubling of the oracle across two chapters as the book's own habit of stating a judgment, then restating it from another angle to press the point home.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהִכֵּיתִ֥י | vehikeiti | and I will strike | H5221 → | 499 times |
| קַשְׁתְּךָ֖ | kashtecha | bow your | H7198 → | 76 times |
| מִיַּ֣ד | miyad | from [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| שְׂמֹאולֶ֑ךָ | semolekha | left your | H8040 → | 54 times |
| וְחִצֶּ֕יךָ | vechitzeikha | and arrows your | H2671 → | 53 times |
| מִיַּ֥ד | miyad | from [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| יְמִינְךָ֖ | yeminekha | right your | H3225 → | 140 times |
| אַפִּֽיל׃ | ʾapil | I will make fall | H5307 → | 435 times |
וְהִכֵּיתִ֥יand I will strike
vehikeitiH5221 →499 times
קַשְׁתְּךָ֖bow your
kashtechaH7198 →76 times
מִיַּ֣דfrom [the] hand of
miyadH3027 →1618 times
שְׂמֹאולֶ֑ךָleft your
semolekhaH8040 →54 times
וְחִצֶּ֕יךָand arrows your
vechitzeikhaH2671 →53 times
מִיַּ֥דfrom [the] hand of
miyadH3027 →1618 times
יְמִינְךָ֖right your
yeminekhaH3225 →140 times
אַפִּֽיל׃I will make fall
ʾapilH5307 →435 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 46:9He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
it leads to
- Isaiah 2:4
Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against…
- Micah 4:3–4
Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take…
- Micah 5:10
“In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
- Isaiah 60:18
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- Joshua 11:9
Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
- Isaiah 2:4
Through
Psalms 76:3There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah
it leads to
- Psalms 46:9
He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
- Psalms 46:9
Through
Hosea 1:5And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”
it leads to
- Judges 6:33
Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
- Joshua 17:16
“The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”
- Judges 6:33
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.