Ezekiel 14:17
What does Ezekiel 14:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 14:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Or--a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said: Sword, thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast--
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Or if I bring the sword upon that land, and say to the sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Or [if] I bring the sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off man and beast from it,
Context
v.16though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.
v.17This passage
v.18though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 33:12
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
- Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast;
- Ezekiel 21:3
and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
- Ezekiel 25:13
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
- Leviticus 26:25
And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Ezekiel 21:9
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;
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