Ezekiel 38:5

Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Persia	פָּרַ֛ס pa.Ras	H6539	Paras (i.e. Persia) · proper noun, a place name
Ethiopia	כּ֥וּשׁ kush	H3568	Cush (or Ethiopia) · proper noun, a place name
Libya	וּפ֖וּט u.Fut	H6316	Put · conjunction + proper noun, a place name
shield	מָגֵ֥ן ma.Gen	H4043	a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
helmet	וְכוֹבָֽע ve.kho.Va'	H3553	a helmet (as arched) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Ezekiel 27:10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy come…
Genesis 10:6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Ezekiel 30:5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the…
Genesis 10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
1 Chronicles 1:8 The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
Nahum 3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 38:1-13

The critical expositors have enough to do here to enquire out Gog and Magog. We cannot pretend either to add to their observations or to determine their controversies. Gog seems to be the king and Magog the kingdom; so that Gog and Magog are like Pharaoh and the Egyptians. Some think they find them afar off, in Scythia, Tartary, and Russia. Others think they find them nearer the land of Israel, in Syria, and Asia the Less. Ezekiel is appointed to prophesy against Gog, and to tell him that God is against him, Eze 38:2, Eze 38:3. Note, God does not only see those that are now the enemies of his church and set himself against them, but he foresees those that will be so and lets them know by his…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 38:5

Persia . . . Libya--expressly specified by APPIAN as supplying the ranks of Antiochus' army.

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 38:5

Persia - That a part of this country was tributary to Antiochus, see 1 Maccabees 3:31. Ethiopia, and Libya - That these were auxiliaries of Antiochus is evident from Dan 11:43 : "The Libyans and Ethiopians shall be at his steps."

John Gill on Ezekiel 38:5

Persia, Ethiopia, and Lybia with them,.... These are the confederates or auxiliaries of the Turks, which shall join with them in this expedition. Persia is a neighbouring kingdom to the Turks, and may fall into their hands before this comes to pass; and is in a fair way for it at this time, through the internal divisions in it; however, it will be confederate with them. Ethiopia or Cush does not design the country of the Abyssines in the dominions of the Great Mogul, but Arabia Chusea, which lay between Judea and Egypt, and is now in the hands of the Turks; and Lybia or Phut is the name of one of the sons of Ham, Genesis 10:6 who, according to Josephus (g), founded Lybia; and from him the in…

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Dictionary and topics

Cush — Black. (1.) A son, probably the eldest, of Ham, and the father of Nimrod (Gen. 10:8; 1 Chr. 1:10). From him the land of Cush seems to have derived its name. The question of the precise locality of…
Ezekiel, Book of — Consists mainly of three groups of prophecies. After an account of his call to the prophetical office (1-3:21), Ezekiel (1) utters words of denunciation against the Jews (3:22-24), warning them of…
Gog — (1.) A Reubenite (1 Chr. 5:4), the father of Shimei. (2.) The name of the leader of the hostile party described in Ezek. 38, 39, as coming from the “north country” and assailing the people of Israel…
Ludim — Probably the same as Lud (2) (comp. Gen. 10:13; 1 Chr. 1:11). They are associated (Jer. 46:9) with African nations as mercenaries of the king of Egypt.
Persia — An ancient empire, extending from the Indus to Thrace, and from the Caspian Sea to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The Persians were originally a Medic tribe which settled in Persia, on the eastern…
Phut, Put — (a bow) the third name in the list of the sons of Ham (Genesis 10:6; 1 Chronicles 1:8) elsewhere applied to an African country or people. The few mentions of Phut in the Bible clearly indicate a…
Ethiopia · Warriors of — Warriors of
Libya · Region north of Egypt — Region north of Egypt
Medo-Persian Kingdom · People of, warlike — People of, warlike
Persia · Prophecies concerning — Prophecies concerning
Phut · .(Margin) — .(Margin)

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 38:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 38:1-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 38:5

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 38:5

John Gill on Ezekiel 38:5

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 38:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 38:1-13

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 38:5

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 38:5

John Gill on Ezekiel 38:5

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 38:1-9

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 38:4

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