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Webster's Bible Translation

Ezekiel 30:17

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Aven;   Pi-Beseth;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Egypt;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethiopia;   Heliopolis;   Pi-Beseth;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Aven;   On;   Pi-Beseth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - On (2);   Pathros;   Pibeseth;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aven;   On;   Phibeseth;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aven;   On;   Pi-Beseth;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Aven ;   On;   Pibeseth ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Aven;   Egypt;   On;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'ven;   Path'ros;   Pi-Be'seth,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Aven;   On;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Aven;   Egypt;   Migdol;   On (1);   Pi-Beseth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Aquila (Βλώμβσ);   Aven;   Heliopolis (on);  

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.
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 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 2 Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Alas the day! 3 For the day [is] near, even the day of the LORD [is] near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. 4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Cush, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down. 5 Cush, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Kub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword. 6 Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. 7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries [that are] desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities [that are] wasted. 8 And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and [when] all her helpers shall be destroyed. 9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Cushites afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for lo, it cometh. 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

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
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore she called his name Dan.
Genesis 30:22
And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and rendered her fruitful.
Genesis 30:26
Give [me] my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
Genesis 30:27
And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, [tarry: for] I have learned by experience, that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
Exodus 3:7
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who [are] in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters; for I know their sorrows;
1 Samuel 1:20
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time had arrived, after Hannah had conceived, that she bore a son, and called his name Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

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.

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


 
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