Ezekiel 38:5

Green's Literal Translation

Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are 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;

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.

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 Jehovah was to me, saying, ² Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him. ³ And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. ⁴ And I will turn you back and put hooks into your jaws. And I will bring you and all your army out: horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most perfectly; a great assembly with buckler and shield, all of them swordsmen. ⁵ Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ⁶ Gomer and all its bands; the house of Togarmah from the recesses of the north, and all its bands; many peoples are with you. ⁷ Be prepared; yea, prepared for yourself, you and all your assembly that are assembled to you, and be a guard to them. ⁸ After many days you shall be visited. In the after years you shall come into the land turned back from the sword, gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have been for a continual waste. But he has been brought out ofthe peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them. ⁹ And you shall go up, you shall come like a storm; you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you and all your bands, and many peoples with you. ¹⁰ So says the Lord Jehovah: And it shall be in that day, words shall come up into your heart, and you shall devise 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
And Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, Live as a widow in your father's house until my son Shelah is grown. For he said, Lest he also die like his brothers. And Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

Genesis 38:26
And Judah knew and said, She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to my son Shelah. And he never knew her again.

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

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

1 Chronicles 4:21
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah; and Laadah the father of Mareshah; and the families of the house of those who worked fine linen, from 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."