Ezekiel 32:20
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.
Ezekiel 32:20 in other translations
| BSB | They will fall among those slain by the sword. The sword is appointed! Let them drag her away along with all her multitudes. |
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| WEB | They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She is delivered to the sword. Draw her away with all her multitudes. |
| ASV | They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes. |
| YLT | In the midst of the pierced of the sword they fall, To the sword she hath been given, They drew her out, and all her multitude. |
| DARBY | They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword. The sword hath been given: draw her out, and all her multitudes. |
| BBE | Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Ezekiel 32:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 32:17-32
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…
Ezekiel 32:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 32:20
- Psalms 28:3
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
- Ezekiel 32:23-26
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain. There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
- Jeremiah 22:19
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
- Proverbs 24:11
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
- Ezekiel 29:8-12
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee. And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia. No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. …
- Ezekiel 32:29-30
There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit. There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
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Context
- Ezekiel 32:19
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
- Ezekiel 32:20
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.
- Ezekiel 32:21
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entre los muertos á cuchillo caerán: al cuchillo es entregado: traedlo á él y á todos sus pueblos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ils tomberont parmi ceux qui ont été tués par l’épée; l’épée a été donnée; traînez l’Égypte et toute sa multitude. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Inmitten der vom Schwert Erschlagenen sollen sie fallen! Das Schwert ist übergeben schleppet Ägypten herbei und seine ganze Menge |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In medio interfectorum gladio cadent; gladius datus est: attraxerunt eam et omnes populos ejus. |