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Ezekiel 29:13

in Ezekiel 29

For this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations to which they were scattered.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples whither they were scattered;

KJV

Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:

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This verse in Ezekiel 29

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 8 and following) Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast. And the land of Egypt shall become a desolation (or destruction) and a wilderness: and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he (or you) said, My river is mine, and I have made it (or My rivers are mine, and I have made them).

This site's exposition

At the end of forty years

on Ezekiel 29:13-16

The oracle turns to restoration, at the end of forty years, gathered to Pathros, upper Egypt where the nation had begun. The return is modest, the basest of the kingdoms. The purpose is stated for Israel's benefit, so that Judah is cured of the temptation to lean on this reed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Yet thus saith the Lord God, at the end of forty years,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Will I gather the Egyptians - It is probable that Cyrus gave permission to the Egyptians brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, to return to their own country. And if we reckon from the commencement of the war against Pharaoh-hophra by Nebuchadnezzar, to the third or fourth year of Cyrus, the term will be about forty years.
A similar respite was promised to Moab Jer 48:47, to Ammon Jer 49:6, and to Tyre Isa 23:15.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • כִּ֛יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • כֹּ֥הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֖רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

  • מִקֵּ֞ץfrom [the] end of

    miketzH7093 →67 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֤יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • שָׁנָה֙year[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • אֲקַבֵּ֣ץI will gather

    ʾakabetzH6908 →127 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מִצְרַ֔יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הָעַמִּ֖יםthe peoples

    haamimH5971 →1873 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־where

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • נָפֹ֥צוּthey were scattered

    nafotzuH6327 →67 times

  • שָֽׁמָּה׃there towards

    shamahH8033 →834 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

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

    Isaiah 19:22

    And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 32:39

      See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…

    • Hebrews 12:11

      No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

    • Hosea 14:1

      Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.

    • Isaiah 19:1–15

      This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will…

    • Isaiah 45:14

      This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 46:26

    I will deliver them into the hands of those who seek their lives—of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. But after this, Egypt will be inhabited as in days of old, declares the…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 32:11

      For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you!

    • Jeremiah 44:30

      This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into…

    • Ezekiel 29:8–14

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

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies2

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.
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 29 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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