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Ezekiel 30:12

in Ezekiel 30

I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

KJV

And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it.

This verse in Ezekiel 30

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

I will make the rivers dry - As the overflowing of the Nile was the grand cause of fertility to Egypt, the drying it up, or preventing that annual inundation, must be the cause of dearth, famine, etc. By rivers, we may understand the various canals cut from the Nile to carry water into the different parts of the land. When the Nile did not rise to its usual height these canals were quite dry.

This site's exposition

put an end to the hordes of Egypt

on Ezekiel 30:10-12

Nebuchadnezzar is named outright as the Lord's chosen instrument, brought to destroy the land. The rivers dried reverse Pharaoh's own boast from chapter 29, my river is mine own. I the Lord have spoken it closes the unit with the formula the book uses to mark a sentence as settled.

This site's exposition

I will make the streams dry up

Isaiah 19:5 to 8 had already foretold the Nile drying up and Egypt's fishermen mourning. To sell the land pictures the LORD as its owner, handing it over like property. Egypt belongs to Him.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 30, Verses 1 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, woe, woe to the day: For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud, the time of the nations shall be. And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed.

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

A repetition of a former prophecy against Egypt, just before the desolation of it begun by their own bad conduct, which gradually weakened them and prepared the way for the king of Babylon,

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), so that those natural fortifications which were thought impregnable, because impassable, shall stand them in no stead." 4. Are her idols a support to her? They shall be destroyed; those imaginary upholders shall appear more than ever to be imaginary, for so images are when they pretend to be deliverers and strongholds (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), who therefore shall show no compassion for old acquaintance-sake, but shall behave strangely towards them. That they are the terrible of the nations (

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And I will make the rivers dry,....

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.

  • וְנָתַתִּ֤יand I will make

    venatatiH5414 →2011 times

  • יְאֹרִים֙canals

    yeorimH2975 →65 times

  • חָֽרָבָ֔הdry ground

    charavahH2724 →

  • וּמָכַרְתִּ֥יand I will sell

    umakhartiH4376 →80 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָ֖רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • בְּיַד־in [the] hand of

    beyad-H3027 →1618 times

  • רָעִ֑יםwicked [people]

    raimH7451 →662 times

  • וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֞יand I will devastate

    vahashimotiH8074 →86 times

  • אֶ֤רֶץ[the] land

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • וּמְלֹאָהּ֙and what fills it

    umeloahH4393 →38 times

  • בְּיַד־by [the] hand of

    beyad-H3027 →1618 times

  • זָרִ֔יםstrangers

    zarimH2114 →77 times

  • אֲנִ֥יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ סI have spoken

    dibartiH1696 →1141 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

    Judges 2:14

    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 17:20

      So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.

    • Psalms 106:40–42

      So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

    • Deuteronomy 32:30

      How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?

    • Deuteronomy 31:17–18

      On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them.…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 29:3

    Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says,…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 27:1

      In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

    • Ezekiel 32:2

      “Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash…

    • 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…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 28:10

    You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 31:18

      Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You…

Where this verse is studied

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.