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Ezekiel 32:20
20An enemy has come to attack Egypt! Many of its people will die among the soldiers who die in battle. The enemy will take many of Egypt's people away as their prisoners.
Ezekiel 32:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
- New International Version (NIV)They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged off with all her hordes.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; She is delivered to the sword, Drawing her and all her multitudes.
Context of Ezekiel 32:20
18‘Son of man, weep for the many people of Egypt. Send them down to the place of dead people, deep under the ground. They will be there in their graves with the people of other powerful nations. 19Say to them, “You think you are more beautiful than the people of other nations. But you too must go down to lie in your graves among those who do not belong to God.” An enemy has come to attack Egypt! Many of its people will die among the soldiers who die in battle. The enemy will take many of Egypt's people away as their prisoners. 21In the place of dead people, brave soldiers will welcome the people of Egypt and those who helped them. They will say, “They have come down to join us who do not belong to God. They have died in battle and now they lie in their graves.” 22The people of Assyria and its whole army are there in their graves! All of them died in battle.
Read all of Ezekiel 32Ezekiel 32:20 word by word
בְּת֥וֹךְ חַלְלֵי־חֶ֖רֶב יִפֹּ֑לוּ חֶ֣רֶב נִתָּ֔נָה מָשְׁכ֥וּ אוֹתָ֖הּ וְכָל־הֲמוֹנֶֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 32:20
- Ezekiel 32:23Their graves are in the deepest parts of the deep hole of death. Soldiers who fought with them lie all around. They were very cruel to people when they were alive. But they died in battle and now they lie in their graves.
- Ezekiel 29:8So this is what the Almighty Lord says: I will bring am army to attack you. I will use them to kill all your men and your animals.
- Psalms 28:3Do not pull me away to punishment, as you do with wicked people. Those people do evil things. They say kind words to their friends, but really they want to hurt them.
- Proverbs 24:1125. You should rescue people who are in danger of death.
- Jeremiah 22:19Instead, they will bury him like a dead donkey. They will pull his dead body to the city's gate. They will throw it on the ground outside Jerusalem.’
Commentaries on Ezekiel 32:20
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20She is delivered to the sword - Rather, the sword is put forth. Draw her down as one dragged to execution.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-32Verses 17-32 Divers nations are mentioned as gone down to the grave before Egypt, who are ready to give her a scornful reception; these nations had been lately ruined and wasted. But though Judah and Jerusalem were about this time ruined and laid waste, yet they are not mentioned here. Though they suffered the same affliction, and by the same hand, yet the kind design for which they were afflicted, and the mercy God reserved for them, altered its nature…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 18-20In an earlier message (Ezekiel 31:17–18), God said that Egypt would go down to join other nations in the place of the dead. Here that idea is explained more fully. Egypt would share the fate of those who were rejected and those killed by the sword. They would go to the Pit, a word that describes the place of the dead. This place of judgment was already filled with many nations. These nations were once powerful, but they had fallen and been destroyed…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. she is delivered to the sword--namely, by God. draw her--as if addressing her executioners: drag her forth to death.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Ezekiel 32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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