KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ezekiel 39:2–3
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Ezekiel 39:2
2And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
2*†And I will turne thee backe, and leaue but the sixt part of thee, and will cause thee to come vp from the North parts, and will bring thee vpon the mountaines of Israel:
- Heb. the sides of the North.
- Or, strike thee with sixe plagues, Or, drawe thee backe, with an book of six teeth, as chap. 38.4.
Ezekiel 39:3
3And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
3And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrowes to fall out of thy right hand.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 39:2
To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The rear part; a position or direction behind; or a return to a former place or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To depart from, abandon, or leave behind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ordinal number corresponding to six; next after the fifth.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A portion or division of a whole; also to divide, separate, depart, or share.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The northern direction, side, quarter, or region named by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Portions or divisions of a whole; also divides, separates, departs, or assigns shares.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 39:3
To strike, beat, afflict, wound, or slay.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in token of reverence, respect, civility, or submission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Departed from, allowed to remain, or abandoned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Pointed missiles shot from bows; figuratively, instruments or images of attack, judgment, pain, or sudden force, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To descend, drop, or lose an upright position; to come upon, attack, happen, decline, fail, or be overthrown; as a noun, descent, ruin, or overthrow, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Straight, correct, just, proper, or belonging to a lawful claim; also the opposite of left.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study15And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
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Open the full verse study29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
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Open the full verse study14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
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Open the full verse study40And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
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Open the full verse study2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study3There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
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Open the full verse study5And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
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Open the full verse study4Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
5And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath.
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Open the full verse study21Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
22Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
23I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
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Open the full verse study9He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
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