Ezekiel 11:8
You're afraid of being killed by the sword, so I will bring invaders with swords to attack you, declares the Lord God.
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In The King James Version
Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
In Context
Cross References
Job 3:25For all that I feared has happened to me; everything that I dreaded has come upon me.
Proverbs 10:24What the wicked fear will happen to them, while what good people hope for will be granted.
Isaiah 30:16You replied, “No! We'll escape on horseback! We'll get away on fast horses!” But the fast ones will be the ones chasing you!
Jeremiah 38:19But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of those people of Judah who have gone over to the Babylonians, because the Babylonians might hand me over to them so they could abuse me.”
Jeremiah 42:16then the war you're so frightened of will catch up with you there, and the famine you're so terrified of will chase after you into Egypt, and you will die there.
Jeremiah 44:12I'm going to destroy you who are left who decided to go to Egypt to live there. You will die there, killed by the sword or by famine. Whoever you are, from the least to the most important, you're going to die by sword or by famine; and you will become a curse word, something horrible, an insult, an expression of condemnation.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 11:2-14
Message of Wrath to Jerusalem; Presumption of the Princes; Awakening Predictions. ( b. c. 593.) 1 Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the Lord 's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 3 Which say, It is not near; let us… Read the whole commentary →