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Ezekiel 39:4

in Ezekiel 39

On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy hordes, and the peoples that are with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

KJV

Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

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This verse in Ezekiel 39

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

every kind of ravenous bird

on Ezekiel 39:4-5

To lie as food for every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast is the curse Deuteronomy pronounces on covenant breakers. Here it falls on the invader instead of on Israel. Gill notes a tension: the birds are called, yet Israel buries the dead for seven months from verse 12.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 39, Verse 1 onwards) \"But you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you.'

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel; there they sinned, and there they shall perish, even upon the holy mountains of Israel, for there broke he the arrows of the bow, Ps. lxxvi. The mountains of Israel shall be moistened, and fattened, and made fruitful, with the blood of the enemies. "Thou shalt fall upon the open field (

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The words behind it

18 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.

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָרֵ֨י[the] mountains of

    hareiH2022 →546 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֜לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • תִּפּ֗וֹלyou will fall

    tipolH5307 →435 times

  • אַתָּה֙you

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲגַפֶּ֔יךָtroops your

    ʾagapeikhaH102 →7 times

  • וְעַמִּ֖יםand peoples

    veamimH5971 →1873 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אִתָּ֑ךְ[are] with you

    ʾitakhH854 →929 times

  • לְעֵ֨יטto bird[s] of prey of

    leeitH5861 →

  • צִפּ֧וֹרbird[s]

    tziporH6833 →40 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • כָּנָ֛ףwing

    kanafH3671 →109 times

  • וְחַיַּ֥תand [the] animal[s] of

    vechaiyatH2416 →498 times

  • הַשָּׂדֶ֖הthe field

    hasadehH7704 →334 times

  • נְתַתִּ֥יךָI will give you

    netatikhaH5414 →2011 times

  • לְאָכְלָֽה׃for food

    leokhlahH402 →18 times

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 39:17And as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.7 worksNahum 3:3Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—5 worksEzekiel 33:27Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.4 worksIsaiah 46:11I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.4 worksPsalms 63:10They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.4 worksEzekiel 32:4–5I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Revelation 19:17–21Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,3 worksEzekiel 38:21And I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord GOD, and every man’s sword will be against his brother.3 works2 Samuel 21:10And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.3 worksIsaiah 34:3Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.3 worksJeremiah 15:3I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.2 worksEzekiel 29:5I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.2 worksIsaiah 34:2–8The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.2 worksEzekiel 30:11He 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.2 worksGenesis 40:19Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”2 worksJeremiah 7:33The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.2 worksEzekiel 31:12Foreigners, 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 all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.2 worksPsalms 110:6He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.2 works

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 38:21

    And I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord GOD, and every man’s sword will be against his brother.

    it leads to

    • Haggai 2:22

      I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his…

    • Judges 7:22

      And when the three hundred rams’ horns sounded, the LORD set all the men in the camp against one another with their swords. The army fled to Beth-shittah toward Zererah as far as the…

    • 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,

    • 2 Chronicles 20:23

      The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had made an end to the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

    • 1 Samuel 14:20

      Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 33:27

    Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 42:22

      Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”

    • 1 Samuel 13:6

      Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.

    • 1 Samuel 22:1

      So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.

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.
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This page draws on 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) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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