King James Version
Ezekiel 32:3 in the King James Version says “Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall brin...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.”
Ezekiel 32:3 · KJV
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. whale: or, dragon
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
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properly, like this, i.e., by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“and they shall bring thee up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“in my net”
H2764physical (as shutting in) a net (either literally or figuratively); usually a doomed object; abstractly extermination
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