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Ezekiel 25:7

in Ezekiel 25

therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

KJV

Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

This verse in Ezekiel 25

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

a spoil--so the Hebrew Margin, or Keri, for the text or Chetib, "meat" (so Eze 26:5; Their goods were to be a "spoil to the foe"; their state was to be "cut off," so as to be no more a "people"; and they were as individuals, for the most part, to be "destroyed."

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This site's exposition

you clapped your hands and stomped your feet

on Ezekiel 25:6-7

The Lord restates the charge in bodily terms, clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet. Keil reads the repetition as deliberate, the second oracle beat driving home that Ammon's crime was performed before whatever audience was watching. The sentence widens from Rabbah made a stable to national extinction.

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 Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): I will stretch out my hand upon thee, a hand that will reach far and strike home, which there is no resisting the blow of, for it is a mighty hand, nor bearing the weight of, for it is a heavy hand.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the L ORD , when I shall lay my vengeance upon them. Three more of Israel's ill-natured neighbours are here arraigned, convicted, and condemned to destruction, for contributing to and triumphing in Jerusalem's fall. Seir, which was the seat of the Edomites, is joined with them (

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Behold, therefore, I will stretch out mine hand upon thee,.... In just retaliation for clapping their hands against his people; and which hand of the Lord they would find to be a heavy one, and which they would not be able either to resist or bear.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

I will cause thee to perish - Except in history, the name of the Ammonites does not now exist.

The words behind it

20 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.

  • לָכֵ֡ן<to> therefore

    lakhenH3651 →771 times

  • הִנְנִי֩here I

    hiniH2005 →316 times

  • נָטִ֨יתִיI have stretched out

    natitiH5186 →214 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יָדִ֜יhand my

    yadiH3027 →1618 times

  • עָלֶ֗יךָon you

    ʾaleikhaH5921 →5755 times

  • וּנְתַתִּ֤יךָֽ־and I will give you

    unetatikha-H5414 →2011 times

  • לְבַז֙as spoil

    levagH957 →25 times

  • לַגּוֹיִ֔םto the nations

    lagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • וְהִכְרַתִּ֙יךָ֙and I will cut off you

    vehikhratikhaH3772 →288 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הָ֣עַמִּ֔יםthe peoples

    haamimH5971 →1873 times

  • וְהַאֲבַדְתִּ֖יךָand I will destroy you

    vehaavadtikhaH6 →184 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הָאֲרָצ֑וֹתthe lands

    haaratzotH776 →2504 times

  • אַשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔I will destroy you

    ʾashmidekhaH8045 →90 times

  • וְיָדַעְתָּ֖and you will know

    veyada'taH3045 →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 6:14

    I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 5:25

      Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 25:16

    therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 30:14

      We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

    • Zephaniah 2:4–15

      For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.

    • Ezekiel 25:13

      therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman…

    • Jeremiah 47:1–7

      This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.

    • 2 Samuel 15:18

      and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 25:13

    therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 29:8

      Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.

    • Jeremiah 25:23

      Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

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.

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