Ezekiel 25:4

therefore I will indeed give you as a possession to the people of the East. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — The Lord addresses the Ammonites through Ezekiel, responding to their mockery of Jerusalem’s fall and the temple’s profanation.

The words — קֶדֶם (Ke.dem) = the east, and מוֹרָשָׁה (mo.ra.Shah) = a possession, framing the land as a forfeited inheritance transferred to foreign settlers.

The thread — The motif of eastern invaders camping and consuming a nation’s produce appears in Judges 6:33, Deuteronomy 28:33, and Deuteronomy 28:51.

Why it lands — The text demands recognition that geopolitical shifts enact divine judgment, requiring the reader to accept that prophetic declarations unfold through concrete historical events.

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The Hebrew words

לָכֵ֡ןla./Khen<to>/ therefore הִנְנִי֩hi./Nihere/ I נֹתְנָ֨ךְno.te.Na/kh[am] about to give/ you לִבְנֵי־li/v.nei-to/ [the] people of קֶ֜דֶםKe.dem[the] east לְמֽוֹרָשָׁ֗הle./mo.ra.Shahto/ a possession וְיִשְּׁב֤וּve./yi.she.Vuand/ they will set up טִירֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ti.ro.tei./Hemencampments/ theirבָּ֔ךְBa/khamong/ youוְנָ֥תְנוּve./Na.te.nuand/ they will makeבָ֖ךְva/khamong/ youמִשְׁכְּנֵיהֶ֑םmish.ke.nei./Hemdwellings/ their הֵ֚מָּהHe.mahthey יֹאכְל֣וּyo.khe.Luthey will eat פִרְיֵ֔ךְfir.Ye/khfruit/ your וְהֵ֖מָּהve./He.mahand/ they יִשְׁתּ֥וּyish.Tuthey will drink חֲלָבֵֽךְ׃cha.la.Ve/khmilk/ your

King James Version

Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 28:33 A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
Judges 6:33 Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east gathered together, crossed over the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.
Deuteronomy 28:51 They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
1 Kings 4:30 Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Genesis 29:1 Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
Leviticus 26:16 then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
Numbers 23:7 And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
Judges 6:3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
Judges 7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.