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Ezekiel 25:5

in Ezekiel 25

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

KJV

And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

This verse in Ezekiel 25

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Rabbah--meaning "the Great," Ammon's metropolis. Under the Ptolemies it was rebuilt under the name Philadelphia; the ruins are called Amman now, but there is no dwelling inhabited.

This site's exposition

give you as a possession to the people of the East

on Ezekiel 25:4-5

The sentence answers the taunt with a reversal: Ammon's land is delivered to the men of the east, likely the Bedouin tribes of the desert. Rabbah, Ammon's capital, becomes a stable for camels. Gill notes the recognition formula closing the sentence, ye shall know that I am the Lord.

This site's exposition

Rabbah a pasture for camels

Rabbah stood on the site of modern Amman, the capital of Jordan. Jeremiah 49:2 pronounced the same end on it, a desolate mound with its villages burned. The city of Ammon becomes pasture for camels and sheep.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

Chapter 25: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, set your face against the sons of Ammon, and prophesy against them. And you shall say to the sons of Ammon: Hear the word of the Lord God!

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): I will make Rabbath, that was a nice and splendid city, to be a stable for camels; for its new masters, whose wealth lies all in cattle, will not think they can put the palaces of Rabbath to a better use.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens

And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels,.... Creatures much used by the eastern nations, especially the Arabians; who pitching their tents about Rabbath, the royal city, the metropolis of the children of Ammon, would convert the houses, and even palaces in it, into stables for their camels. This city, in Jerom's time, as he says, was called Philadelphia, from Ptolemy Philadelphus, who rebuilt it.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְנָתַתִּ֤יand I will make

    venatatiH5414 →2011 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • רַבָּה֙Rabbah

    rabahH7237 →

  • לִנְוֵ֣הinto a pasture of

    linvehH5116 →35 times

  • גְמַלִּ֔יםcamels

    gemalimH1581 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • עַמּ֖וֹןAmmon

    amonH5983 →106 times

  • לְמִרְבַּץ־into a resting place of

    lemirbatz-H4769 →

  • צֹ֑אןflock[s]

    tzonH6629 →274 times

  • וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖םand you will know

    vida'temH3045 →945 times

  • כִּֽי־that

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • אֲנִ֥יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃ ס[am] Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

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

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Ezekiel 21:20

    Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 49:2

      Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned.…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 3:11

      (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Amos 1:14

      So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.

  • Through

    Isaiah 17:2

    The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

    it leads to

    • Zephaniah 2:6

      So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

    • Jeremiah 7:33

      The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.

    • Deuteronomy 2:36

      From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God…

    • Micah 4:4

      And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him. For the mouth of the LORD of Hosts has spoken.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 12:26

    Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 20:1–3

      In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained…

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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.

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.