Ezekiel 30:17

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The young men of On and Pi-besethwill fall by the sword,and those cities will go into captivity.

Hebrew Names Version
The young men of Aven and of Pi-Veset shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.

King James Version
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

English Standard Version
The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.

New American Standard Bible
"The young men of On and of Pi-beseth Will fall by the sword, And the women will go into captivity.

New Century Version
The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will fall dead in war, and the people will be taken away as captives.

Amplified Bible
"The young men of On (Aven) and of Pi-beseth Will fall by the sword, And the women [and children] will go into captivity.

World English Bible
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The yong men of Auen, and of Phibeseth shall fall by the sworde: and these cities shall goe into captiuitie.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The young men of On and of Pi-beseth Will fall by the sword, And the women will go into captivity.

Legacy Standard Bible
The choice men of On and of Pi‑besethWill fall by the sword,And the women will go into captivity.

Berean Standard Bible
The young men of On and Pi-beseth will fall by the sword, and those cities will go into captivity.

Contemporary English Version
The young soldiers in the cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in battle, and the rest of the people will be taken prisoner.

Complete Jewish Bible
The young men of On and Pi-Veset will die by the sword, while the cities themselves will go into captivity.

Darby Translation
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these shall go into captivity.

Easy-to-Read Version
The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in battle, and the women will be taken away as prisoners.

George Lamsa Translation
The young men of Mapibest shall be weak, and they shall fall by the sword; and the remnant shall go into captivity.

Good News Translation
The young men of the cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in the war, and the other people will be taken prisoner.

Lexham English Bible
The young men of On and Pi Beseth will fall by the sword, and they will go into captivity.

Literal Translation
The young men of Aven and Pibeseth shall fall by the sword, and they shall go into captivity.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The best men off Heliopolis & Bubasto shalbe slayne with the swearde ad caried awaye captyue.

American Standard Version
The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.

Bible in Basic English
The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the sword: and these towns will be taken away prisoners.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.

King James Version (1611)
The yong men of Auen and of Phibeseth, shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall goe into captiuitie.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The young men of Auen, and of Phibeseth shall fall by the sworde, and these [cities] shall go into captiuitie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The youths of Heliopolis and Bubastum shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.

English Revised Version
The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The yonge men of Heliopoleos and of Bubasti schulen falle doun bi swerd, and tho citees schulen be led caitifs.

Update Bible Version
The young men of On and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these [cities] shall go into captivity.

Webster's Bible Translation
The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword: and these [cities] shall go into captivity.

New English Translation
The young men of On and of Pi-beseth will die by the sword; and the cities will go into captivity.

New King James Version
The young men of Aven [fn] and Pi Beseth shall fall by the sword,And these cities shall go into captivity.

New Living Translation
The young men of Heliopolis and Bubastis will die in battle, and the women will be taken away as slaves.

New Life Bible
The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be killed in battle, and the women will be taken away.

New Revised Standard
The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword; and the cities themselves shall go into captivity.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The young men of Aven and Pi-beseth, by the sword, shall fall; And lo! into captivity, stall they themselves wend their way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus shall fall by the sword, and they themselves shall go into captivity.

Revised Standard Version
The young men of On and of Pibe'seth shall fall by the sword; and the women shall go into captivity.

Young's Literal Translation
The youths of Aven and Pi-Beseth by sword do fall, And these into captivity do go.

Contextual Overview

¹ God , the Master, spoke to me: "Son of man, preach. Give them the Message of God , the Master. Wail: "‘Doomsday!' Time's up! God 's big day of judgment is near. Thick clouds are rolling in. It's doomsday for the nations. Death will rain down on Egypt. Terror will paralyze Ethiopia When they see the Egyptians killed, their wealth hauled off, their foundations demolished, And Ethiopia, Put, Lud, Arabia, Libya —all of Egypt's old allies— killed right along with them. ⁶"‘ God says: "‘Egypt's allies will fall and her proud strength will collapse— From Migdol in the north to Syene in the south, a great slaughter in Egypt! Decree of God , the Master. Egypt, most desolate of the desolate, her cities wasted beyond wasting, Will realize that I am God when I burn her down and her helpers are knocked flat. ⁹ "‘When that happens, I'll send out messengers by ship to sound the alarm among the easygoing Ethiopians. They'll be terrorized. Egypt's doomed! Judgment's coming! ¹⁰"‘ God , the Master, says: "‘I'll put a stop to Egypt's arrogance. I'll use Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to do it. He and his army, the most brutal of nations, shall be used to destroy the country. They'll brandish their swords and fill Egypt with corpses. I'll dry up the Nile and sell off the land to a bunch of crooks. I'll hire outsiders to come in and waste the country, strip it clean. I, God , have said so. ¹³"‘And now this is what God , the Master, says: "‘I'll smash all the no-god idols; I'll topple all those huge statues in Memphis. The prince of Egypt will be gone for good, and in his place I'll put fear—fear throughout Egypt! I'll demolish Pathros, burn Zoan to the ground, and punish Thebes, Pour my wrath on Pelusium, Egypt's fort, and knock Thebes off its proud pedestal. I'll set Egypt on fire: Pelusium will writhe in pain, Thebes blown away, Memphis raped. The young warriors of On and Pi-beseth will be killed and the cities exiled. A dark day for Tahpanhes when I shatter Egypt, When I break Egyptian power and put an end to her arrogant oppression! She'll disappear in a cloud of dust, her cities hauled off as exiles. That's how I'll punish Egypt, and that's how she'll realize that I am God .'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Aven: or, Heliopolis, Genesis 41:45

Pibeseth: or Pubastum, Situated on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, near the top of the Delta.

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 30:23 - General Ezekiel 30:26 - I will

Cross-References

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God took my side and vindicated me. He listened to me and gave me a son." She named him Dan (Vindication). Rachel's maid Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son. Rachel said, "I've been in an all-out fight with my sister—and I've won." So she named him Naphtali (Fight).

Genesis 30:22
And then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb. She became pregnant and had a son. She said, "God has taken away my humiliation." She named him Joseph (Add), praying, "May God add yet another son to me."

Genesis 30:27
Laban said, "If you please, I have learned through divine inquiry that God has blessed me because of you." He went on, "So name your wages. I'll pay you."

Exodus 3:7
God said, "I've taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I've heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

1 Samuel 1:20
Before the year was out, Hannah had conceived and given birth to a son. She named him Samuel, explaining, "I asked God for him."

Luke 1:13
But the angel reassured him, "Don't fear, Zachariah. Your prayer has been heard. Elizabeth, your wife, will bear a son by you. You are to name him John. You're going to leap like a gazelle for joy, and not only you—many will delight in his birth. He'll achieve great stature with God. "He'll drink neither wine nor beer. He'll be filled with the Holy Spirit from the moment he leaves his mother's womb. He will turn many sons and daughters of Israel back to their God. He will herald God's arrival in the style and strength of Elijah, soften the hearts of parents to children, and kindle devout understanding among hardened skeptics—he'll get the people ready for God." Zachariah said to the angel, "Do you expect me to believe this? I'm an old man and my wife is an old woman." But the angel said, "I am Gabriel, the sentinel of God, sent especially to bring you this glad news. But because you won't believe me, you'll be unable to say a word until the day of your son's birth. Every word I've spoken to you will come true on time—God's time." Meanwhile, the congregation waiting for Zachariah was getting restless, wondering what was keeping him so long in the sanctuary. When he came out and couldn't speak, they knew he had seen a vision. He continued speechless and had to use sign language with the people. When the course of his priestly assignment was completed, he went back home. It wasn't long before his wife, Elizabeth, conceived. She went off by herself for five months, relishing her pregnancy. "So, this is how God acts to remedy my unfortunate condition!" she said. In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to the Galilean village of Nazareth to a virgin engaged to be married to a man descended from David. His name was Joseph, and the virgin's name, Mary. Upon entering, Gabriel greeted her: Good morning! You're beautiful with God's beauty, Beautiful inside and out! God be with you. She was thoroughly shaken, wondering what was behind a greeting like that. But the angel assured her, "Mary, you have nothing to fear. God has a surprise for you: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son and call his name Jesus. He will be great, be called ‘Son of the Highest.' The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David; He will rule Jacob's house forever— no end, ever, to his kingdom." Mary said to the angel, "But how? I've never slept with a man." The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Highest hover over you; Therefore, the child you bring to birth will be called Holy, Son of God. "And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is? Everyone called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant! Nothing, you see, is impossible with God." And Mary said, Yes, I see it all now: I'm the Lord's maid, ready to serve. Let it be with me just as you say. Then the angel left her. Mary didn't waste a minute. She got up and traveled to a town in Judah in the hill country, straight to Zachariah's house, and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby in her womb leaped. She was filled with the Holy Spirit, and sang out exuberantly, You're so blessed among women, and the babe in your womb, also blessed! And why am I so blessed that the mother of my Lord visits me? The moment the sound of your greeting entered my ears, The babe in my womb skipped like a lamb for sheer joy. Blessed woman, who believed what God said, believed every word would come true! And Mary said, I'm bursting with God-news; I'm dancing the song of my Savior God. God took one good look at me, and look what happened— I'm the most fortunate woman on earth! What God has done for me will never be forgotten, the God whose very name is holy, set apart from all others. His mercy flows in wave after wave on those who are in awe before him. He bared his arm and showed his strength, scattered the bluffing braggarts. He knocked tyrants off their high horses, pulled victims out of the mud. The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold. He embraced his chosen child, Israel; he remembered and piled on the mercies, piled them high. It's exactly what he promised, beginning with Abraham and right up to now. Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months and then went back to her own home. When Elizabeth was full-term in her pregnancy, she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives, seeing that God had overwhelmed her with mercy, celebrated with her. On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father. But his mother intervened: "No. He is to be called John." "But," they said, "no one in your family is named that." They used sign language to ask Zachariah what he wanted him named. Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote, "His name is to be John." That took everyone by surprise. Surprise followed surprise—Zachariah's mouth was now open, his tongue loose, and he was talking, praising God! A deep, reverential fear settled over the neighborhood, and in all that Judean hill country people talked about nothing else. Everyone who heard about it took it to heart, wondering, "What will become of this child? Clearly, God has his hand in this." Then Zachariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he came and set his people free. He set the power of salvation in the center of our lives, and in the very house of David his servant, Just as he promised long ago through the preaching of his holy prophets: Deliverance from our enemies and every hateful hand; Mercy to our fathers, as he remembers to do what he said he'd do, What he swore to our father Abraham— a clean rescue from the enemy camp, So we can worship him without a care in the world, made holy before him as long as we live. And you, my child, "Prophet of the Highest," will go ahead of the Master to prepare his ways, Present the offer of salvation to his people, the forgiveness of their sins. Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us, Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace. The child grew up, healthy and spirited. He lived out in the desert until the day he made his prophetic debut in Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The young men of Aven and of Phibeseth shall fall by the sword,.... Aven is the same with On, of which Potipherah was priest in Joseph's time and whose daughter he married, Genesis 41:45, the same with Heliopolis, or Bethshemesh, the city of the sun, see Jeremiah 43:13,

Jeremiah 43:13- :; where was the temple of the sun, and where it was worshipped; and so it is rendered by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions. It is called here "Aven", or "vanity", because of the vain and idolatrous worship here performed. Phibeseth is the Bubastis of Herodotus, and called by other writers Bubastus; hence there was a nome or province in Egypt called the Bubastic nome, mentioned by Ptolemy c, and others. In this was a temple built to the honour of Diana, where she was worshipped and Herodotus d says, that Bubastis, in the Greek tongue, is Diana; here she was worshipped in the form of a cat; and Stephanus e observes, that the Egyptians call a cat Bubastus; and it is also said that dead cats salted were buried in this city, as being sacred: according to Diodorus Siculus f, it was built for the sake of Isis; and Hillerus g says, that in the Abyssine language it was called "Phy' mly' sith"; that is, the portion of the wife, namely of Isis married to Osiris, by whom this city was built to the honour of her; as appears by the pillar of Isis, on which these words are inscribed,

"for me the city of Bubastia is built; be glad, be glad, O Egypt, which brought me up.''

This place is now called Bishbesh, according to Dr. Shaw h: now the young men of both these places, though they might exert themselves in the defence of them, yet should fail therein, and fall by the sword of the Chaldeans:

and these cities shall go into captivity; the rest of the inhabitants of the cities of Aven and Pibeseth, that shall not fall by the sword, shall be carried captive into other lands. Joseph Kimchi supplies "women" instead of "cities"; and thinks, that as the males are mentioned before, the females are understood here. The Targum is,

"they that served them shall go into captivity;''

that served the idols worshipped in these cities.

c Geograph. l. 4. c. 5. d Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 59, 138, 156. e De Urbibus. f Bibliothec l. 1. p. 24. g Onomastic. Sacr. p. 672. h Travels, p. 306. Ed. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Aven - The same as “On” Genesis 41:45, or “Heliopolis.” The word “Aven” means also “transgression” (compare Hosea 10:8). Some have thought that here too Ezekiel substituted the word “Aven” for “On” to mark the “sin” of idolatry there in full vogue.

Pi-beseth - The Bubastis of Herodotus. The hieroglyphic name is “Pe-bast,” the house of Bast (the Egyptian Artemis, the cat-headed goddess). Bubastis was situated on the easternmost, the Pelusian, branch of the Delta. The road from Pelusium to Memphis lay through Bubastis and On. In the days of Herodotus Bubastis was the seat of one of the chief annual festivals of the Egyptians. The Persians took the town and razed the walls. The ruins bear the modern name Tel-Basta.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 30:17. Aven — Or On, the famous Heliopolis, or city of the sun.

Pibeseth — Bubastum or Bubaste, by a slight alteration of the letters. It is situated on the eastern branch of the Nile, towards Arabia.