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Ezekiel 38:23

And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Judgments;   Scofield Reference Index - Armageddon;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Knowledge;   Last Days;   Nations;   Sanctification;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions of the Wicked, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gog and Magog;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gog;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gog;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hallow;   Sanctification;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Holiness;   Ḳaddish;   Lord's Prayer, the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will display my greatness and holiness, and will reveal myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’
Hebrew Names Version
I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
King James Version
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord .
English Standard Version
So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord .
New American Standard Bible
"So I will prove Myself great, show Myself holy, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the LORD."'
New Century Version
Then I will show how great I am. I will show my holiness, and I will make myself known to the many nations that watch. Then they will know that I am the Lord .'
Amplified Bible
"Thus I shall magnify Myself and demonstrate My greatness and sanctify Myself, and I will be recognized and will make Myself known in the sight of many nations; they will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD."'
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus will I be magnified, and sanctified, and knowen in the eyes of many nations, & they shall knowe, that I am the Lord.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the LORD."'
Legacy Standard Bible
And I will magnify Myself, I will manifest Myself as holy, and I will make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am Yahweh."'
Berean Standard Bible
I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.'
Contemporary English Version
I will do these things to show the world that I, the Lord , am holy.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will show my greatness and holiness, making myself known in the sight of many nations; then they will know that I am Adonai .'
Darby Translation
And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then I will show how great I am. I will prove that I am holy. Many nations will see me do these things, and they will learn who I am. Then they will know that I am the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
Thus will I magnify myself and sanctify myself in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Good News Translation
In this way I will show all the nations that I am great and that I am holy. They will know then that I am the Lord ."
Lexham English Bible
And so I will exalt myself, and I will show myself holy, and I will make myself known before the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am Yahweh.'"
Literal Translation
And I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself. And I will be known in the eyes of the many nations, and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus wil I be magnified, honoured, and knowne amonge the Heithen: that they maye be sure, how yt I am ye LORDE.
American Standard Version
And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus will I magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself, and I will make Myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Thus will I magnifie my selfe, and sanctifie my selfe, and I will be knowen in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus will I be magnified, sanctified, and knowen in the eyes of many nations: and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will be magnified, and sanctified, and glorified; and I will be known in the presence of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
English Revised Version
And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
World English Bible
I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal be magnefied, and Y shal be halewid, and Y shal be knowun bifore the iyen of many folkis; and thei schulen wite, that Y am the Lord.
Update Bible Version
And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.
New English Translation
I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord .'
New King James Version
Thus I will magnify Myself and sanctify Myself, and I will be known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD."'
New Living Translation
In this way, I will show my greatness and holiness, and I will make myself known to all the nations of the world. Then they will know that I am the Lord .
New Life Bible
I will show the many nations that I am great and holy. And they will know that I am the Lord."
New Revised Standard
So I will display my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So will I Magnify myself and Hallow myself, and Make myself known. Before the eye of many nations, - And they shall know that I, am Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
And I have magnified Myself, and sanctified Myself, And I have been known before the eyes of many nations, And they have known that I [am] Jehovah!
THE MESSAGE
"‘I'll show you how great I am, how holy I am. I'll make myself known all over the world. Then you'll realize that I am God .'"

Contextual Overview

14 For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them? 15 And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army: 16 And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes. 17 This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them. 18 And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling. 19 For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 20 So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth. 21 And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother. 22 And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning. 23 And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

magnify: Ezekiel 36:23

and I: Ezekiel 38:16, Ezekiel 37:28, Ezekiel 39:7, Ezekiel 39:13, Ezekiel 39:27, Psalms 9:16, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 15:4, Revelation 19:1-6

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:17 - thou shalt Psalms 46:10 - I will be Psalms 59:13 - and let Psalms 83:18 - That men Isaiah 5:16 - the Lord Isaiah 25:3 - General Isaiah 45:6 - General Isaiah 64:2 - to make Ezekiel 6:7 - and ye Ezekiel 20:41 - and I will Ezekiel 20:42 - ye shall Ezekiel 25:5 - and ye Ezekiel 28:22 - shall be Ezekiel 28:25 - be sanctified Ezekiel 30:25 - they shall know Ezekiel 37:6 - ye shall Ezekiel 39:21 - I will set Daniel 11:45 - he shall come Hosea 2:20 - and Hosea 9:7 - Israel Micah 7:16 - nations Malachi 1:5 - The Lord Malachi 2:4 - ye Matthew 6:9 - Hallowed

Cross-References

2 Samuel 12:9
Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Proverbs 6:33
Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
Romans 6:21
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
2 Corinthians 4:2
And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.
Ephesians 5:12
For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.
Revelation 16:15
(See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus will l magnify myself, and sanctify myself,.... Show the greatness of his power, and the strictness of his justice and holiness, and glorify these, and all other of his perfections, in the destruction of the enemies of his people:

and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord; Heathen nations shall now come to the knowledge of the true God, and his Son Jesus Christ, and of the Christian religion, and shall embrace and profess it; :-, the kingdoms of the world will now become the Lord's, Revelation 11:15.


 
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