Ezekiel 39:23

And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
heathen	הַ֠גּוֹיִם Ha.go.yim	H1471	a foreign nation · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
know	וְיָדְע֣וּ ve.ya.de.'U	H3045	to know (properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
house	בֵֽית veit-	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
captivity	גָּל֣וּ ga.Lu	H1540	to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
iniquity	בַעֲוֹנָ֞ם va.'a.vo.Nam	H5771	perversity · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
trespassed	מָֽעֲלוּ ma.'a.lu-	H4603	properly · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
hid	וָאַסְתִּ֥ר va.'as.Tir	H5641	to hide (by covering) · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 1st person common singular
face	פָּנַ֖י pa.Nai	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
gave	וָֽאֶתְּנֵם֙ va.'e.te.Nem	H5414	to give · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
hand	בְּיַ֣ד be.Yad	H3027	a hand (the open one (indicating power · preposition + noun, common both genders singular construct
enemies	צָרֵיהֶ֔ם tza.rei.Hem	H6862	narrow · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
fell	וַיִּפְּל֥וּ vai.yi.pe.Lu	H5307	to fall · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
sword	בַחֶ֖רֶב va.Che.rev	H2719	drought · preposition with the article + noun, common feminine 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

Jeremiah 22:8-9 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great c…
Isaiah 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of…
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Ezekiel 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
Leviticus 26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I wil…
Deuteronomy 31:17-18 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devou…
Deuteronomy 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is…
Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 39:23–end

This is the conclusion of the whole matter going before, and has reference not only to the predictions concerning Gog and Magog, but to all the prophecies of this book concerning the captivity of the house of Israel, and then concerning their restoration and return out of their captivity. I. God will let the heathen know the meaning of his people's troubles, and rectify the mistake of those concerning them who took occasion from the troubles of Israel to reproach the God of Israel, as unable to protect them and untrue to his covenant with them. When God, upon their reformation and return to him, turned again their captivity, and brought them back to their own land, and, upon their perseveran…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 39:23

hid I my face-- (Deu 31:17; Isa 59:2).

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 39:19

And ye shall eat fat - and drink blood - Who shall eat and drink, etc.? Not the Jews: though Voltaire says they ate human flesh, and are invited here by the prophet to eat the flesh and drink the blood of their enemies; which is a most unprincipled falsehood. It is the fowls and the beasts that God invites, Eze 39:17 : "Speak to every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, assemble yourselves - that ye may eat flesh and drink blood;" nor are the persons altered in all these Eze 39:17-20 : so the assertion of Voltaire is either through brutish ignorance or Satanic malice.

John Gill on Ezekiel 39:23

And the Heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity,.... Before this they thought the captivity of the Jews, and all their distresses, were owing to their own weakness, and the weakness of the God they served, and to the superior strength of their enemies, and the power of their gods; but now, by this strange and amazing destruction of Gog and his army, they will see that it was not owing to those things, but to the sins and transgressions of the people of the Jews: because they transgressed against me; prevaricated with him, acted a perfidious and treacherous part to him, as the word (i) signifies; which they did, when they delivered Jesus of Nazareth…

Dictionary and topics

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…
Captivity · As a — As a
Judgments · Different kinds of: Captivity — Different kinds of: Captivity
Nation · Chastised — Chastised

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 39:23

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 39:23–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 39:23

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 39:19

John Gill on Ezekiel 39:23

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 39:23

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 39:23–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 39:23

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 39:19

John Gill on Ezekiel 39:23

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 39:21–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 39:21-24

Rashi on Ezekiel 39:23