Ezekiel 38:5

Bishop's Bible

They of Paras, of Cush, & Phut, with them [euen] all [hauing] shieldes and helmets.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shields and helmets;

Hebrew Names Version
Paras, Kush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

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

English Standard Version
Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

New American Standard Bible
Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with buckler and helmet;

New Century Version
Persia, Cush, and Put will be with them, all of them having shields and helmets.

Amplified Bible
Persia (Iran), Cush (Ethiopia), and Put (Libya, N. Africa) with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Geneva Bible (1587)
They of Paras, of Cush, and Phut with the, euen all they that beare shielde and helmet.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Legacy Standard Bible
Persia, Ethiopia, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Berean Standard Bible
Persia, Cush, and Put will accompany them, all with shields and helmets;

Contemporary English Version
Your army includes soldiers from Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya,

Complete Jewish Bible
Paras, Ethiopia and Put are with them, all with breastplates and helmets;

Darby Translation
Persia, Cush, and Phut with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Easy-to-Read Version
Soldiers from Persia, Ethiopia, and Put will be with them. They will all be wearing their shields and helmets.

George Lamsa Translation
Persians, Ethiopians, and Lybians with them, all of them with shields and helmets.

Good News Translation
Troops from Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with him, and all have shields and helmets.

Lexham English Bible
Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them, with a small shield and helmet.

Literal Translation
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the Perses, Moryans and with them the Lybians, which all beare shyldes and helmettes:

American Standard Version
Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Bible in Basic English
Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

King James Version (1611)
Persia, Ethiopia and Libya with them; all of them with shield & helmet:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields.

English Revised Version
Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

World English Bible
Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Perseis, Ethiopiens, and Libiens with hem, alle ben araied with scheeldis and helmes.

Update Bible Version
Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Webster's Bible Translation
Persia, Cush, and Phut with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

New English Translation
Persia, Ethiopia, and Put are with them, all of them with shields and helmets.

New King James Version
Persia, Ethiopia, [fn] and Libya [fn] are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

New Living Translation
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya will join you, too, with all their weapons.

New Life Bible
Persia, Ethiopia, and Put will be with you, all with battlecoverings and head-coverings.

New Revised Standard
Persia, Ethiopia, and Put are with them, all of them with buckler and helmet;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Persia Ethiopia and Libya with them, All of them, with shield and helmet;

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans with them, all with shields and helmets.

Revised Standard Version
Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Young's Literal Translation
Persia, Cush, and Phut, with them, All of them [with] shield and helmet.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying: ² Thou sonne of man, set thy face towarde Gog, the land of Magog, which is the chiefe prince at Mesech and Tubal: prophecie against him, ³ And say, thus sayth the Lorde God: O Gog, thou chiefe prince of Mesech and Tubal, beholde, I will vpon thee: ⁴ And I will turne thee backe, and put hookes in thy chawes, I will bring thee foorth and all thyne hoast, both horse and horsemen, all armed with all sortes of armour, a great multitude with speares and shieldes, all handling swordes. ⁵ They of Paras, of Cush, & Phut, with them [euen] all [hauing] shieldes and helmets. ⁶ Gomer and all his hoastes, the house of Togarma out of the north quarters and all his hoastes, yea and much people with thee. ⁷ Therfore prepare thee, set thy selfe in aray with all thy people that are come vnto thee by heapes, & be thou their defence. ⁸ After many dayes thou shalt be visited, and in the latter yeres thou shalt come into the lande that hath ben turned [and cost] with the sworde, and gathered together againe out of many people vpon the mountaynes of Israel, which haue ben alwayes [subiect] to waste: but it is brought out of the people, and they dwell all safe. ⁹ Thou shalt ascend and come vp like a storme, as a cloude to couer the lande shalt thou be: thou with al thine hoastes, & a great multitude of people with thee. ¹⁰ Moreouer, thus sayth the Lorde God: At the same time shall thinges come into thy minde, so that thou shalt thinke euyll thoughtes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Persia: Ezekiel 27:10

Libya: or, Phut, Ezekiel 30:5, Genesis 10:6, 1 Chronicles 1:8, Nahum 3:9, Put

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 14:10 - thine heart Daniel 11:43 - the Libyans

Cross-References

Genesis 38:11
Then sayde Iudas to Thamar his daughter in lawe: Remayne a wydowe at thy fathers house, tyll Selah my sonne be growen. (For he sayde, lest peraduenture he dye also as his brethren dyd.) And Thamar went & dwelt in her fathers house.

Genesis 38:26
And Iuda acknowledged them, and saide: She hath ben more righteous then I, because I gaue her not Selah my sonne. And he lay with her no more.

Genesis 46:12
The children of Iuda: Er, & Onan, Selah, & Phares, and Zarah: but Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Chanaan. The children of Phares also were Hesron and Hamul.

Numbers 26:20
But the chyldren of Iuda after their kinredes, were Sela, of whom cometh the kinred of the Selanites: Phares, of whom commeth the kinred of the Pharezites: Zareh, of whom cometh the kinred of the Zarehites.

1 Chronicles 4:21
The sonnes of Selah the sonne of Iuda, were: Er the father of Lecha, and Laada the father of Maresa, and the kinredes of the housholdes of them that wrought linnen in the house of Asbea.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 inhabitants of it were called Phuteans (as they are here by the Targum); and he observes that there is a river of his name in Mauritania. Lybia is a country in Africa, to the west of Egypt and subject to the Turks:

all of them with shield and helmet; the Lybians are described by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 46:9, as

those that handle the shield; and the Egyptians, to whom the Lybians were near neighbours, and whom they might imitate in their warlike arms, as in other things, wore shields down to the feet, as Xenophon h relates.

g Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 2. h Cyropaedia, l. 6. c. 14. & l. 7. c. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Libya and Ethiopia, mixed with the northern invaders, are tribes from the extreme south, to show that this is a general combination of the foes of God’s people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 38:5. Persia — That a part of this country was tributary to Antiochus, see 1Macc 3:31.

Ethiopia, and Libya — That these were auxiliaries of Antiochus is evident from Daniel 11:43: "The Libyans and Ethiopians shall be at his steps."