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Ezekiel 7:24
So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks through Ezekiel to exiled Israel during a prophetic pronouncement of imminent national collapse. The oracle addresses a land saturated with bloodshed and violence as divine judgment arrives.
The words — The Hebrew verbs הֵבֵאתִי (he.ve.Ti, "I will bring") and יָרְשׁוּ (ya.re.Shu, "they will take possession") frame the arrival of invading forces, while גּוֹאֹן (ge.'on, "pride") and בָּתֵּיהֶם (ba.tei.hem, "their houses") denote the targets of this judgment.
The thread — This pattern of divine judgment through foreign military force appears in Ezekiel 28:7, Psalm 106:41, and Ezekiel 21:31. Each passage describes God handing over His people to ruthless outsiders who bring violence and rule over them.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that national collapse follows systemic violence and defies any hope of self-preservation. It requires the reader to confront the reality that divine judgment operates through historical conquest rather than abstract punishment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
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.
- Psalms 106:41 He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
- Ezekiel 21:31 I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction.
- Ezekiel 33:28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and the pride of her strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, so that no one will pass through.
- 2 Chronicles 7:19 But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
- Psalms 83:12 who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
- Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
- Jeremiah 4:7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.
- Jeremiah 6:12 Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 12:12 Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.