Ezekiel 23:46

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“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.”

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BSBPD

“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 23:46 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 15:4I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
  2. Jeremiah 17:3O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
  3. Jeremiah 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
  4. 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.
  5. Jeremiah 34:17Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
  6. Ezekiel 16:40They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
  7. Ezekiel 23:22Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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