King James Version
Ezekiel 7:14 in the King James Version says “They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitud...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.”
Ezekiel 7:14 · KJV
The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life. although they: Heb. though their life were yet among the living in the: or, whose life is in his iniquity the iniquity: Heb. his iniquity
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“They have blown”
H8628to clatter, i.e., slap (the hands together), clang (an instrument); by analogy, to drive (a nail or tent-pin, a dart, etc.); by implication, to become
“even to make all ready”
H3559properly, to be erect (i.e., stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix,
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“but none goeth”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“to the battle”
H4421a battle (i.e., the engagement); generally, war (i.e., war-fare)
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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