King James Version
Ezekiel 39:8 in the King James Version says “Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 39 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.”
Ezekiel 39:8 · KJV
And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD. carelessly: or, confidently
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves , and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: handstaves: or, javelins burn them: or, make a fire of them
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and it is done”
H1961to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“this is the day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“whereof I have spoken”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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