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Legacy Standard Bible

Ezekiel 39:3

And I will strike your bow from your left hand and cause your arrows from your right hand to fall.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bow;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Last Days;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arrows;   Bow, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Apocalyptic literature;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gog;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ma'gog;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gog and Magog;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Left;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Right and Left;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then I will knock your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.
Hebrew Names Version
and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
King James Version
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
English Standard Version
Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.
New American Standard Bible
"Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.
New Century Version
I will knock your bow out of your left hand and throw down your arrows from your right hand.
Amplified Bible
"I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will smite thy bowe out of thy left hand, and I will cause thine arrowes to fall out of thy right hand.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will strike your bow from your left hand and dash down your arrows from your right hand.
Berean Standard Bible
Then I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
Contemporary English Version
I will knock the bow out of your left hand and the arrows out of your right hand,
Complete Jewish Bible
But then I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.
Darby Translation
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Easy-to-Read Version
But I will knock your bow from your left hand and your arrows from your right hand.
George Lamsa Translation
And I will swerve your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
Good News Translation
Then I will knock his bow out of his left hand and his arrows out of his right hand.
Lexham English Bible
and I will strike your bow from your left hand, and your arrows from your right hand I will cause to fall.
Literal Translation
And I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and I will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for thy bowe, I wil smyte it out of thy left honde, and cast thine arowes out of thy right honde.
American Standard Version
and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Bible in Basic English
And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
King James Version (1611)
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrowes to fall out of thy right hand.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for thy bow, I wil smite it out of thy left hande, and cause thyne arrowes to fall out of thy right hande.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will destroy the bow out of thy left hand, and thine arrows out of thy right hand, and I will cast thee down on the mountains of Israel;
English Revised Version
and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
World English Bible
and I will strike your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal smyte thi bouwe in thi left hond, and Y schal caste doun thin arowis fro thi riyt hond.
Update Bible Version
and I will smite your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall out of your right hand.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I will strike thy bow out of thy left hand, and I will cause thy arrows to fall from thy right hand.
New English Translation
I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.
New King James Version
Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.
New Living Translation
I will knock the bow from your left hand and the arrows from your right hand, and I will leave you helpless.
New Life Bible
I will knock your bow out of your left hand, and knock your arrows out of your right hand.
New Revised Standard
I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand,- And thine arrows - out of thy right hand, win I cause to fall.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will break thy bow in thy left hand, and I will cause thy arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Revised Standard Version
then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.
Young's Literal Translation
And have smitten thy bow out of thy left hand, Yea, thine arrows out of thy right I cause to fall.

Contextual Overview

1"Now as for you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; 2and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north, and bring you against the mountains of Israel. 3And I will strike your bow from your left hand and cause your arrows from your right hand to fall. 4You will fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and beast of the field. 5You will fall on the open field; for it is I who have spoken," declares Lord Yahweh. 6"And I will send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands securely; and they will know that I am Yahweh. 7"And My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 20:21-24, Psalms 46:9, Psalms 76:3, Jeremiah 21:4, Jeremiah 21:5, Hosea 1:5

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:35 - a bow Jeremiah 51:56 - every

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
Now it happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do;
Genesis 26:24
And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said,"I am the God of your father Abraham;Do not fear, for I am with you.I will bless you and multiply your seed,For the sake of My servant Abraham."
Genesis 26:28
Then they said, "We see plainly that Yahweh has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us—between you and us—and let us cut a covenant with you,
Genesis 30:27
But Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, stay with me; I have interpreted an omen that Yahweh has blessed me on your account."
Genesis 30:30
For you had little before I came, but it has spread out to a multitude, and Yahweh has blessed you at every step of mine. But now, when shall I provide for my own household also?"
Genesis 39:7
And it happened after these events that his master's wife set her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."
Genesis 39:8
But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Behold, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has given all that he owns into my hand.
Genesis 39:15
Now it happened that when he heard that I raised my voice and screamed, he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside."
Genesis 39:16
And she placed his garment beside her until his master came home.
Genesis 39:23
The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph's hand because Yahweh was with him; and whatever he did, Yahweh made to succeed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand,.... In which it is usually held, to have the arrow fitted to it:

and I will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand; where they are commonly held when put into the bow, and then the bow is drawn with it; signifying hereby, that though he should come into the land of Israel, he should not succeed; he would be stripped of his armour, and it would be useless to him: bows and arrows are put for all kind of warlike instruments; and are particularly mentioned because they were chiefly used in war when this prophecy was delivered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 39:3. I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand — The Persians whom Antiochus had in his army, Ezekiel 38:5, were famous as archers, and they may be intended here. The bow is held by the left hand; the arrow is pulled and discharged by the right.


 
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