King James Version
Ezekiel 30:10 in the King James Version says “Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.”
Ezekiel 30:10 · KJV
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. destroyed: Heb. broken
In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it. dry: Heb. drought all: Heb. the fulness thereof
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, like this, i.e., by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now
“to cease”
H7673to repose, i.e., desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“by the hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“of Nebuchadrezzar”
H5019nebukadnetstsar (or nebukadretsts(-ar, or)), king of babylon
“of Babylon”
H894babel (i.e., babylon), including babylonia and the babylonian empire
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