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Ezekiel 14:18

in Ezekiel 14

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if these three men were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.

KJV

Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.

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This verse in Ezekiel 14

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Though these three men were in it,.... Before mentioned: as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters: believe me no more, or be it so and so, if they do; it is in the form of an oath, and in the same manner it is expressed in Eze 14:16; but they only shall be delivered themselves; their own souls or lives, and by their righteousness, as in Eze 14:14.

This site's exposition

if I bring a sword against that land

on Ezekiel 14:17-18

The third judgment is the sword, “Let a sword pass through it,” and the same refrain follows: “They alone would be delivered.” Four disasters meet one unchanging verdict on borrowed righteousness. Clarke points to verse 21, where the sword is one of the four judgments sent against Jerusalem.

This site's exposition

They alone would be delivered

Verse 16 ended with a desolate land, and this verse leaves that clause out. Gill reads as I live as the form of an oath. The LORD swears the same sentence at verses 16, 18 and 20.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 12, 13 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting treacherously, I will stretch out my hand (some versions add 'upon it') and break its staff of bread, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast. And if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver their own souls by their righteousness, declares the Lord of hosts.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

In Eze 14:21 he concentrates the whole in one mass of condemnation. If Noah, Daniel, Job, could not deliver the land, when deserving only one judgment, "how much more" when all four judgments combined are justly to visit the land for sin, shall these three righteous men not deliver it.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וּשְׁלֹ֨שֶׁתand [the] three

    usheloshetH7969 →432 times

  • הָאֲנָשִׁ֣יםthe men

    haanashimH582 →566 times

  • הָאֵלֶּה֮<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • בְּתוֹכָהּ֒[will be] in [the] midst of it

    betokhahH8432 →418 times

  • חַי־[by] [the] life

    chai-H2416 →498 times

  • אָ֗נִיof me

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • נְאֻם֙[the] utterance of

    neumH5002 →376 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יַצִּ֖ילוּthey will deliver

    yatziluH5337 →212 times

  • בָּנִ֣יםsons

    banimH1121 →4930 times

  • וּבָנ֑וֹתand daughters

    uvanotH1323 →588 times

  • כִּ֛יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • הֵ֥םthey

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • לְבַדָּ֖םto alone them

    levadamH905 →200 times

  • יִנָּצֵֽלוּ׃they will be delivered

    yinatzeluH5337 →212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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Where this verse is studied

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About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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