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Ezekiel 29:8

in Ezekiel 29

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast.

KJV

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

This verse in Ezekiel 29

Commentary

3 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

I will bring a sword against you

on Ezekiel 29:8-9

The sentence turns from figure to plain statement, a sword upon thee, man and beast cut off. The recognition formula lands here, they shall know that I am the Lord. Judgment answers a claim to self-made sovereignty with a plain demonstration of who actually made the river.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Therefore thus saith the Lord God,....

The words behind it

13 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.

  • לָכֵ֗ן<to> therefore

    lakhenH3651 →771 times

  • כֹּ֤הthus

    kohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַר֙he says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

  • הִנְנִ֛יhere I

    hiniH2005 →316 times

  • מֵבִ֥יא[am] about to bring

    mevi'H935 →2568 times

  • עָלַ֖יִךְon you

    ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times

  • חָ֑רֶבa sword

    charevH2719 →413 times

  • וְהִכְרַתִּ֥יand I will cut off

    vehikhratiH3772 →288 times

  • מִמֵּ֖ךְfrom you

    mimekhH4480 →1188 times

  • אָדָ֥םhumankind

    ʾadamH120 →551 times

  • וּבְהֵמָֽה׃and animal[s]

    uvehemahH929 →190 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 30:4

    A sword will come against Egypt, and there will be anguish in Cush when the slain fall in Egypt, its wealth is taken away, and its foundations are torn down.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 29:19

      Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 7:20

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 42:18

      For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out…

    • Jeremiah 17:27

      But if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an…

    • Lamentations 2:3–5

      In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 14:17

    Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:25

      And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into…

    • Ezekiel 21:3–4

      and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

    • Zephaniah 1:3

      “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind…

    • Ezekiel 5:12

      A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every…

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; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).