Bible Strands
Ezekiel 30:11
He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord speaks through Ezekiel to the exiled community, announcing the imminent military campaign against Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar and his forces.
The words — The text highlights עָרִיצֵי (a.ri.Tzei) as the ruthless [ones] and מֽוּבָאִ֖ים (mu.va.'Im) as [will be] brought, describing a foreign army mobilized for destruction.
The thread — This motif of foreign armies executing divine judgment appears in Ezekiel 28:7, where ruthless nations draw swords against a ruler, and Deuteronomy 28:50, which describes a ruthless nation with no pity.
Why it lands — The passage demands recognition that geopolitical conquest operates under sovereign decree, leaving Egypt desolated by the very swords deployed against it.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 28:7 behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
- Deuteronomy 28:50 a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
- Isaiah 14:4 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
- Isaiah 34:3 Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
- Jeremiah 51:20 “You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Ezekiel 31:12 Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
- Ezekiel 32:12 I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.
- Ezekiel 35:8 I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
- Ezekiel 39:4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.
- Ezekiel 39:11 And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.