Ezekiel 5:10

Ezekiel 5:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds.

Context of Ezekiel 5:10

8“Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: I – even I – am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch. 9I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices. Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds. 11“Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you. 12A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 5:10 word by word

לָכֵ֗ן אָב֞וֹת יֹאכְל֤וּ בָנִים֙ בְּתוֹכֵ֔ךְ וּבָנִ֖ים יֹאכְל֣וּ אֲבוֹתָ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֤יתִי בָךְ֙ שְׁפָטִ֔ים וְזֵרִיתִ֥י אֶת־כָּל־שְׁאֵרִיתֵ֖ךְ לְכָל־רֽוּחַ׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore the fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• shall eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• the sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• in the midstתָּ֫וֶךְtâvek · midstH8432
• and I will executeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• judgmentsשֶׁ֫פֶטshepheţ · judgmentH8201
• in thee, and the whole remnantשְׁאֵרִיתshe'êrîyth · remnantH7611
• of thee will I scatterזָרָהzârâh · to scatterH2219
• into all the windsרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307

Cross-references for Ezekiel 5:10

• Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
• Deuteronomy 28:53You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.
• 2 Kings 6:29So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”
• Isaiah 9:20They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!
• Isaiah 49:26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the Lord, your deliverer, your protector, the powerful ruler of Jacob.”
• Jeremiah 19:9I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”
• Lamentations 2:20Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary? ש (Sin/Shin)
• Lamentations 4:10The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed. כ (Kaf)
• Ezekiel 5:2Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.
• Ezekiel 6:8“‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.
• Ezekiel 12:14All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.
• Ezekiel 20:23I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
• Ezekiel 22:15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.
• Ezekiel 36:19I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.
• Leviticus 26:33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
• Deuteronomy 4:27Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 5:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10The fathers shall eat the sons - Though we have not this fact so particularly stated in history, yet we cannot doubt of it, considering the extremities to which they were reduced during the siege. The same is referred to by Jeremiah, Lamentations 4:10. Even the women, who were remarkable for kindness and humanity, boiled their own children, and ate them during the siege. Will I scatter into all the winds - Disperse you, by captivity, among all the nations…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-17Verses 5-17 The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, will perish for ever unpitied; there is a day coming when the Lord will not spare. Let not persons or churches, who change the Lord's statutes, expect to escape the doom of Jerusalem. Let us endeavour to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10fathers among you will eat their sons: This terrible event would happen during a time of severe famine (a time when there is no food). When people become desperate and have nothing to eat, such suffering can occur (see 2 Kings 6:26–30). This was also one of the covenant curses (the promised punishments for disobedience). God had warned that this would happen if the people rejected him (see Leviticus 26:29).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. fathers ... eat ... sons--alluding to Moses' words (Le 26:29; De 28:53), with the additional sad feature, that "the sons should eat their fathers" (see 2Ki 6:28; Jr 19:9; La 2:20; 4:10).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings