Ezekiel 32:5 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 32:5

I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

KJV

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile to that of dead bodies of the slain heaped up on the land. Some render “height,” “foulness.”

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְנָתַתִּ֥י	ve.na.ta.Ti	and I will put	H5414 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
בְּשָׂרְךָ֖	be.sa.re.Kha	flesh your	H1320 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
הֶֽהָרִ֑ים	he.ha.Rim	the mountains	H2022 →
וּמִלֵּאתִ֥י	u.mi.le.Ti	and I will fill	H4390 →
הַגֵּאָי֖וֹת	ha.ge.'a.Yot	the valleys	H1516 →
רָמוּתֶֽךָ׃	ra.mu.Te.kha	height your	H7419 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 31:12
Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And…
leads to
- Ezekiel 28:7
  behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
- Ezekiel 35:8
  I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
- Ezekiel 30:11
  He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
- Nahum 3:17–18
  Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows…
- Habakkuk 1:6
  For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About Ezekiel

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