Ezekiel 33:26

Ezekiel 33:26 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?
• English Standard Version (ESV)You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?
• New King James Version (NKJV)You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?” ’
• New Living Translation (NLT)Murderers! Idolaters! Adulterers! Should the land belong to you?’

Context of Ezekiel 33:26

24“Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.’ 25Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land? You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’ 27“Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague. 28I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them.

Ezekiel 33:26 word by word

עֲמַדְתֶּ֤ם עַֽל־חַרְבְּכֶם֙ עֲשִׂיתֶ֣ן תּוֹעֵבָ֔ה וְאִ֛ישׁ אֶת־אֵ֥שֶׁת רֵעֵ֖הוּ טִמֵּאתֶ֑ם וְהָאָ֖רֶץ תִּירָֽשׁוּ׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Ye standעָמַד‛âmad · to stand: standH5975
• upon your swordחֶ֫רֶבchereb · swordH2719
• ye workעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• abominationתּוֹעֵבַהtô‛êbah tô‛êbah · abominationH8441
• and ye defileטָמֵאţâmê' · to defileH2930
• every oneאִישׁ'îysh · man: anyoneH376
• his neighbour’sרֵעַrêa‛ rêya‛ · neighborH7453
• wifeאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · woman: wifeH802
• and shall ye possessיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: possessH3423
• the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776

Cross-references for Ezekiel 33:26

• Genesis 27:40You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”
• Micah 2:1Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.
• Zephaniah 3:3Her officials within her are roaring lions; her rulers are evening wolves, who leave nothing for the morning.
• Ezekiel 18:12He oppresses the poor and needy. He commits robbery. He does not return what he took in pledge. He looks to the idols. He does detestable things.
• Leviticus 18:26But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the foreigners residing among you must not do any of these detestable things,
• Leviticus 20:13“ ‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
• 1 Kings 11:5He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites.
• 1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.
• Revelation 21:8But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Ezekiel 18:6He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.
• Ezekiel 22:9In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.
• Jeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for another man’s wife.
• Leviticus 18:25Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
• Leviticus 20:22“ ‘Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.
• Deuteronomy 4:25After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger,
• Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 33:26

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26Ye stand upon your sword - Ye live by plunder, rapine, and murder. Ye are every way impure; and shall ye possess the land? No.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23-33Verses 23-33 The exhortation to repentance. Ezekiel first addresses the remnant that still linger in their ancient home, and warns them against presumptuous hopes resting on false grounds Ezekiel 33:23-29; then he turns his eyes to those near him, and points out that their apparent attention to his words was illusory. Ezekiel 33:24 Those wastes - The places in the holy land devastated by the conqueror. Abraham - The argument is, Abraham was but one man…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 21-29Verses 21-29 Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in the peculiar blessings to true believers, while their conduct proves them enemies of God. They call this groundless presumption strong faith, when God's testimony declares them entitled to his threatenings, and nothing else.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-26Those who stayed in the ruined cities of Judah saw the Exile as a chance for personal gain, not repentance. They claimed to be the only heirs of Abraham's promise and sought to own all the land. Their actions showed they were not truly Abraham's children. They ignored laws against eating meat with blood (see Deuteronomy 12:23), worshiped idols, and killed innocent people. Their lives denied Abraham's faith, and they would not inherit his promise.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. Ye stand upon your sword--Your dependence is, not on right and equity, but on force and arms. every one--Scarcely anyone refrains from adultery.Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 33:26

• Adultery
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Jerusalem
• Self-Righteousness
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Ezekiel, Book of
• Turn
• Ezekiel
• Prophecy; Prophets
• Resurrection

Commentaries on Ezekiel 33

• 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