Ezekiel 28:24
in Ezekiel 28For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
KJV
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
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This verse in Ezekiel 28
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThere shall be no more a pricking brier - Nothing to excite Israel to idolatry when restored from their captivity. Perhaps there is an allusion to Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Sidon, and wife to Ahab, king of Israel, who was the greatest curse to Israel, and the universal restorer of idolatry in the land, see 1Ki 16:31. Sidon being destroyed, there would come no encourager of idolatry from that quarter.
This site's exposition
Then the word of the LORD came to me
on Ezekiel 28:20-24
The oracle turns last to Zidon, Tyre's older sister city. Verse 24 gives Israel's stake, there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn. Henry and Gill read the brier and thorn as the same figure Moses had used at Numbers 33:55.
This site's exposition
a pricking brier or a painful thorn
This verse closes the oracles against Israel's neighbors that began in chapter 25, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia, Tyre and Sidon. Each had scorned Judah in her fall. Egypt, the seventh nation, receives chapters 29 to 32.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 20 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against it, and say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Sidon, and I will be glorified in you. And they shall know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments in her and am sanctified in her. And I will send pestilence upon her and blood in her streets, and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword all around, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel,....
We had done with Tyrus in the foregoing chapter, but now the prince of Tyrus is to be singled out from the rest. Here is something to be said to him by himself, a message to him from God, which the prophet must send him, whether he will hear or whether he will forbear.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Israel--as the idolatrous nations left in Canaan (among which Zidon is expressly specified in the limits of Asher, Jud 1:31) had been (Nu 33:55; "A brier," first ensnaring the Israelites in sin, and then being made the instrument of punishing them. pricking--literally, "causing bitterness." The same Hebrew is translated "fretting" (Le 13:51, 52).
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The words behind it
18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלֹֽא־ | velo'- | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יִהְיֶ֨ה | yihyeh | it will belong | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| ע֜וֹד | od | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| לְבֵ֣ית | leveit | to [the] house of | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| סִלּ֤וֹן | silon | a brier | H5544 → | |
| מַמְאִיר֙ | mamir | [which] pricks | H3992 → | |
| וְק֣וֹץ | vekotz | and a thorn | H6975 → | |
| מַכְאִ֔ב | makhiv | [which] causes pain | H3510 → | |
| מִכֹּל֙ | mikol | from all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| סְבִ֣יבֹתָ֔ם | sevivotam | around them | H5439 → | 336 times |
| הַשָּׁאטִ֖ים | hashatim | who despise | H7590 → | 3 times |
| אוֹתָ֑ם | ʾotam | <obj.> them | H853 → | 10935 times |
| וְיָ֣דְע֔וּ | veyadeu | and they will know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּ֥י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֖י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֥י | ʾadonai | [am the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִֽה׃ ס | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
וְלֹֽא־and not
velo'-H3808 →5168 times
יִהְיֶ֨הit will belong
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
ע֜וֹדagain
odH5750 →490 times
לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of
leveitH1004 →2046 times
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
סִלּ֤וֹןa brier
silonH5544 →
מַמְאִיר֙[which] pricks
mamirH3992 →
וְק֣וֹץand a thorn
vekotzH6975 →
מַכְאִ֔ב[which] causes pain
makhivH3510 →
מִכֹּל֙from all
mikolH3605 →5413 times
סְבִ֣יבֹתָ֔םaround them
sevivotamH5439 →336 times
הַשָּׁאטִ֖יםwho despise
hashatimH7590 →3 times
אוֹתָ֑ם<obj.> them
ʾotamH853 →10935 times
וְיָ֣דְע֔וּand they will know
veyadeuH3045 →945 times
כִּ֥יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֖יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
אֲדֹנָ֥י[am the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִֽה׃ סYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 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
2 Corinthians 12:7or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
it leads to
- Numbers 33:55
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 33:55
Through
Numbers 33:55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you…
it leads to
- Judges 2:3
So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 7:16
You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 23:33
They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 106:34–36
They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
- Judges 2:3
Through
Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up; they will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
it leads to
- Ephesians 3:20–21
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Ephesians 3:20–21
Through
Ezekiel 2:6But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 1:8
Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 51:12
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
- Jeremiah 1:8
Where this verse is studied
About Ezekiel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, Ezekiel and the Book of His Prophecy.
