Ezekiel 32:8 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 32:8

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.

WEB

All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.

YLT

All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

DBT

All the bright lights of the heavens will I make black over thee, and bring darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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4 verses on the floor

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Proverbs 20:20
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Here the plague of darkness, which was upon Egypt of old for three days, seems to be alluded to, as, before, the turning of the waters into blood. For, when former judgments are forgotten, it is just that they should be repeated.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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