Ezekiel 38:5

Good News Translation

Troops from Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with him, and all have shields 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.

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:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They of Paras, of Cush, & Phut, with them [euen] all [hauing] shieldes and helmets.

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 The Lord spoke to me. ² "Mortal man," he said, "denounce Gog, chief ruler of the nations of Meshech and Tubal in the land of Magog. Denounce him ³ and tell him that I, the Sovereign Lord , am his enemy. ⁴ I will turn him around, put hooks in his jaws, and drag him and all his troops away. His army, with its horses and uniformed riders, is enormous, and every soldier carries a shield and is armed with a sword. ⁵ Troops from Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with him, and all have shields and helmets. ⁶ All the fighting men of the lands of Gomer and Beth Togarmah in the north are with him, and so are men from many other nations. ⁷ Tell him to get ready and have all his troops ready at his command. ⁸ After many years I will order him to invade a country where the people were brought back together from many nations and have lived without fear of war. He will invade the mountains of Israel, which were desolate and deserted so long, but where all the people now live in safety. ⁹ He and his army and the many nations with him will attack like a storm and cover the land like a cloud." ¹⁰ This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Gog: "When that time comes, you will start thinking up an evil plan.

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 Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Return to your father's house and remain a widow until my son Shelah grows up." He said this because he was afraid that Shelah would be killed, as his brothers had been. So Tamar went back home.

Genesis 38:26
Judah recognized them and said, "She is in the right. I have failed in my obligation to her—I should have given her to my son Shelah in marriage." And Judah never had intercourse with her again.

Genesis 46:12
Judah and his sons: Shelah, Perez, and Zerah. (Judah's other sons, Er and Onan, had died in Canaan.) Perez' sons were Hezron and Hamul.

1 Chronicles 4:21
Shelah was one of Judah's sons. His descendants included Er, who founded the town of Lecah; Laadah, founder of the town of Mareshah; the clan of linen weavers, who lived in the town of Beth Ashbea;

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."