🔥WEB · Ezekiel 30:23

What does Ezekiel 30:23 mean?

"I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."

— Ezekiel 30:23 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

20

In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.

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Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

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I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before the king of Babylon with the groaning of a mortally wounded man.

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I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh will fall down. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he stretches it out on the land of Egypt.

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I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

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