Ezekiel 38:5

King James Version

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

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;

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:

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 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ² Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, ³ And say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: ⁴ And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: ⁵ Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: ⁶ Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. ⁷ Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. ⁸ After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. ⁹ Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. ¹⁰ Thus saith the Lord God ; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

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 said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

Genesis 38:26
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

Genesis 46:12
And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

Numbers 26:20
And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.

1 Chronicles 4:21
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of 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."