Ezekiel 14:17

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“Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,”

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BSBPD

“Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and beast;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Or--a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said: Sword, thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast--”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 14:17 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:25And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
  2. Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
  3. Jeremiah 33:12This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
  4. Jeremiah 47:6‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’
  5. Jeremiah 47:7How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”
  6. Ezekiel 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.
  7. Ezekiel 5:17I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
  8. Ezekiel 14:13“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,
  9. Ezekiel 21:3and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
  10. Ezekiel 21:8Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  11. Ezekiel 21:9“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
  12. Ezekiel 25:13therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
  13. Ezekiel 29:8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.
  14. Ezekiel 33:2“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ‘Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land choose a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,
  15. Ezekiel 38:21And I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord GOD, and every man’s sword will be against his brother.
  16. Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
  17. Zephaniah 1:3“I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and the idols with their wicked worshipers. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

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