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Ezekiel 38:5

Perseis, Ethiopiens, and Libiens with hem, alle ben araied with scheeldis and helmes.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ethiopia;   Libya;   Persia;   Phut;   Scofield Reference Index - Armageddon;   The Topic Concordance - Israel/jews;   Last Days;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Medo-Persian Kingdom;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gog and Magog;   Phut or Put;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Africa;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cush;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cush (2);   Persia;   Phut;   Togarmah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cush;   Ezekiel;   Libya;   Put;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gog;   Put, Phut;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Armour;   Libya, Libyans ;   Phut, Put;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gog;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Persia;   Phut;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Lu'dim;   Per'sia;   Phut, Put;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Arms;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cush (1);   Ethiopia;   Libya;   Persia;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Africa;   Persia;  

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.
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;
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 was maad to me, 2 and he seide, Thou, sone of man, Sette thi face ayens Gog, and ayens the lond of Magog, the prince of the heed of Mosoch and of Tubal; and profesie thou of hym. 3 And thou schalt seie to hym, The Lord God seith these thingis, A! Gog, lo! Y to thee, prince of the heed of Mosoch and of Tubal; 4 and Y schal lede thee aboute, and Y schal sette a bridil in thi chekis, and Y schal leede out thee, and al thin oost, horsis, and horsmen, alle clothid with haburiouns, a greet multitude of men, takynge spere, and scheeld, and swerd. 5 Perseis, Ethiopiens, and Libiens with hem, alle ben araied with scheeldis and helmes. 6 Gomer, and alle the cumpenyes of hym, the hous of Togorma, the sidis of the north, and al the strengthe therof, and many puplis ben with thee. 7 Make redi, and araye thee, and al thi multitude which is gaderid to thee, and be thou in to comaundement to hem. 8 Aftir many daies thou schalt be visitid, in the laste of yeeris thou schalt come to the lond, that turnede ayen fro swerd, and was gaderid of many puplis, to the hillis of Israel that weren desert ful ofte; this was led out of puplis, and alle men dwellide tristili ther ynne. 9 Forsothe thou schalt stie, and schalt come as a tempest, and as a cloude, for to hile the lond, thou, and alle thi cumpanyes, and many puplis with thee. 10 The Lord God seith these thingis, In that dai wordis schulen stie on thin herte, and thou schalt thenke the worste thouyt;

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
Wherfor Judas seide to Thamar, `wijf of his sone, Be thou widewe in the hous of thi fadir, til Sela my sone wexe, for he dredde lest also he schulde die as hise britheren. And sche yede, and dwellide in the hous of hir fadir.
Genesis 38:26
And whanne the yiftis weren knowun, he seide, Sche is more iust than Y, for Y yaf not hir to Sela, my sone; netheles Judas knewe hir no more fleischli.
Genesis 46:12
The sones of Juda, Her and Onam, and Sela, and Fares, and Zara. Forsothe Her and Onam dieden in the lond of Canaan; and the sones of Fares weren borun, Esrom, and Amul.
Numbers 26:20
And the sones of Juda weren bi her kynredis; Sela, of whom the meynee of Selaitis; Phares, of whom the meynee of Pharesitis; Zare, of whom the meynee of Zareitis.
1 Chronicles 4:21
The sones of Cela, sone of Juda, weren Her, the fadir of Lecha, and Laada, the fadir of Marasa; and these weren the kynredis of the hows of men worchynge biys in the hows of an ooth,

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."


 
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