Ezekiel 25 · Verse 5

Ezekiel 25:5

And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 25:5, King James Version

Ezekiel 25:5 in other translations

BSBI will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
WEBI will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
ASVAnd 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.
YLTAnd 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 am Jehovah.
DARBYAnd 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.
BBEAnd 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.
WebsterAnd I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

What does Ezekiel 25:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. Rabbah--meaning "the Great," Ammon's metropolis. Under the Ptolemies it was rebuilt under the name Philadelphia; the ruins are called Amman now, but there is no dwelling inhabited. Ammonites--that is, the Ammonite region is to be a "couching place for flocks," namely of the Arabs. The "camels," being the chief beast of burden of the Chaldeans, are put first, as their invasion was to prepare the Ammonite land for the Arab "flocks." Instead of busy men, there shall be "still and couching flocks."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 25:1-7

Judgments against the Ammonites. (Ezek 25:1-7) Against the Moabites, Edomites, and Philistines. (Ezek 25:8-17) Verses 1-7 . It is wicked to be glad at the calamities of any, especially of God's people; it is a sin for which he will surely reckon. God will make it appear that he is the God of Israel, though he suffers them for a time to be captives in Babylon. It is better to know Him, and to be poor, than to be rich…

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Ezekiel 25:5 in the original Hebrew

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וְנָתַתִּ֤יve.na.ta.Tiand I will makeH5414
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
רַבָּה֙ra.BahRabbahH7237
לִנְוֵ֣הlin.Vehinto a pasture ofH5116
גְמַלִּ֔יםge.ma.LimcamelsH1581
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
בְּנֵ֥יbe.Nei[the] people ofH1121
עַמּ֖וֹןa.MonAmmonH5983
לְמִרְבַּץ\־le.mir.batz-into a resting place ofH4769
צֹ֑אןTzonflock[s]H6629
וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖םvi.da'.Temand you will knowH3045
כִּֽי\־ki-thatH3588
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589
יְהוָֽה\׃\ \סYah.weh[am] YahwehH3068

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 25:5

  • Ezekiel 21:20

    Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

  • 2 Samuel 12:26

    And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

  • Isaiah 17:2

    The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

  • Isaiah 32:14

    Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

  • Ezekiel 38:23

    Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Zephaniah 2:14-15

    And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

  • Ezekiel 30:8

    And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

  • Ezekiel 24:24

    Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God.

  • Ezekiel 25:8

    Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;

  • Deuteronomy 3:11

    For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath 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 35:9

    I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Isaiah 37:20

    Now therefore, O Lord our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord, even thou only.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Rabbah.
21:20
Rabbath.
2Sa 12:26
a stable.
Isa 17:2; 32:14; Zep 2:14,15
and ye.
8; 24:24; 26:6; 30:8; 35:9; 38:23; Ps 83:18; Isa 37:20

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Context

  • Ezekiel 25:4

    Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

  • Ezekiel 25:5

    And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 25:6

    For thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

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Ezekiel 25:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y pondré á Rabba por habitación de camellos, y á los hijos de Ammón por majada de ovejas; y sabréis que yo soy Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et je ferai de Rabba un pâturage pour les chameaux, et du pays des fils d’Ammon un gîte pour le menu bétail; et vous saurez que je suis l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich werde Rabba zur Trift der Kamele machen, und die Kinder Ammon zum Lagerplatz der Herden Und ihr werdet wissen, daß ich Jehova bin. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Daboque Rabbath in habitaculum camelorum, et filios Ammon in cubile pecorum: et scietis quia ego Dominus.