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Ezekiel 5:17

in Ezekiel 5

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

KJV

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.

This verse in Ezekiel 5

Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 17) And I will send famine upon you, and the most evil beasts to annihilate you. And pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord who has spoken. The most evil beasts are brought upon the desolate land, which has been devastated by famine, the sword, and pestilence. These times also show when familiar animals, like dogs, are driven to madness and attack their masters' flesh, and the land is filled with bears, wolves, and all other kinds of beasts.

This site's exposition

the deadly arrows of famine

on Ezekiel 5:16-17

The Lord will send “the deadly arrows of famine,” and “cut off your supply of food,” as He said in Ezekiel 4:16. Famine, wild beasts, plague and bloodshed, and the sword follow, the four judgments named in Ezekiel 14:21. The oracle closes with the same seal as verse 15.

This site's exposition

I will send famine and wild beasts against you

Famine, wild beasts, plague, bloodshed and the sword close the chapter. Adam Clarke notes wild animals multiply in an emptied land, and he allows the beasts may picture Nebuchadnezzar's armies, like the lion of Jeremiah 4:7. The Lord seals the sentence with His own word.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The sword of the Lord, that used to be drawn for Jerusalem's defence, is now drawn for its destruction. Others are devoured by evil beasts, which will make a prey of those that fly for shelter to the deserts and mountains. They shall meet their ruin where they expected refuge, for there is no escaping the judgments of God,

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Pestilence and blood - Thy land shall be the common road for pestilence and blood. Tho' this prophecy was to be accomplished presently, in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans; yet it may well be supposed to look forward, to the final destruction of it by the Romans, when God made a full end of the Jewish nation, and caused his fury to rest upon them.
So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The sentence is passed by him that is Judge of heaven and earth, whose judgment is according to truth, and the judgments of whose hand are according to the judgments of his mouth.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee - Wild beasts always multiply in depopulated countries. In England, wolves abounded when the country was thinly peopled, it is now full of inhabitants, and there is not one wolf in the land. Nebuchadnezzar and his Chaldeans may be called here evil beasts. He is often compared to a lion, Jer 4:7; Dan 7:14; on account of the ravages made by him and his Chaldean armies.
1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

beasts--perhaps meaning destructive conquerors (Da 7:4). Rather, literal "beasts," which infest desolated regions such as Judea was to become (compare Eze 34:28; The same threat is repeated in manifold forms to awaken the careless. sword--civil war.

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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.

  • וְשִׁלַּחְתִּ֣יand I will send

    veshilachtiH7971 →845 times

  • עֲ֠לֵיכֶםon you

    ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times

  • רָעָ֞בfamine

    raavH7458 →101 times

  • וְחַיָּ֤הand animal[s]

    vechaiyahH2416 →498 times

  • רָעָה֙wild

    raahH7451 →662 times

  • וְשִׁכְּלֻ֔ךְand they will make childless you

    veshikelukhH7921 →23 times

  • וְדֶ֥בֶרand pestilence

    vedeverH1698 →49 times

  • וָדָ֖םand blood

    vadamH1818 →360 times

  • יַעֲבָר־it will pass

    yaavor-H5674 →556 times

  • בָּ֑ךְin you

    bakh

  • וְחֶ֙רֶב֙and sword

    vecherevH2719 →413 times

  • אָבִ֣יאI will bring

    ʾavi'H935 →2568 times

  • עָלַ֔יִךְon you

    ʾalayikhH5921 →5755 times

  • אֲנִ֥יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ פI 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

    Leviticus 26:22

    I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 14:15

      Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 32:24

      They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 32:24

    They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:22

      I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 38:22

    I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 11:6

      On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

    • Isaiah 66:16

      For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

    • Revelation 16:21

      And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.

    • Isaiah 28:17

      I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

    • Psalms 18:12–14

      From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.

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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.