Ezekiel 25:5
What does Ezekiel 25:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 25:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And I have given Rabbah for a habitation of camels, And the sons of Ammon for the crouching of a flock, And ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
Context
v.4therefore, behold, I will deliver thee to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
v.5This passage
v.6For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of thy soul against the land of Israel;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)
- Ezekiel 26:6
And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
- Zephaniah 2:14
And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals thereof; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he hath laid bare the cedar-work.
- Ezekiel 30:8
And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.
- 2 Samuel 12:26
Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
- Isaiah 32:14
For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
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