Ezekiel 39:17

Thou, therefore son of man, Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Say to the bird of every wing. And to every wild beast of the field. Assemble yourselves and come Gather yourselves from every side, unto my sacrifice which I am sacrificing for you A great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel,- And ye shall eat flesh and drink blood:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.

In Context

16Moreover, the name of a city, shall be Hamonah ["To the multitude"] so shall they cleanse the land.

18The flesh of mighty men, shall ye eat, And the blood of the princes of the earth, shall ye drink.— Rams well-fed lambs and he-goats bullocks, Fatlings of Bashan all of them;

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Cross References

Genesis 31:54and Jacob offered sacrifice in the mountain, and called on his brethren to eat bread. So they did eat bread, and tarried the night in the mountain.

1 Samuel 16:3Then shall thou bid Jesse to the sacrifice,—when, I, will let thee know what thou must do, so shalt thou anoint for me him whom I shall name unto thee.

Isaiah 18:6They shall be left together. To the ravenous birds, of the mountains, And to the beast of the earth,—Then shall the ravenous bird, summer upon them, And, every beast of the earth, upon them, shall winter.

Isaiah 34:6A sword, hath Yahweh—Glutted with blood Sated with fat,—With the blood of well-fed lambs and he-goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams,—For, a sacrifice, hath Yahweh in Bozrah, Yea a great slaughter in the land of Edom;

Jeremiah 12:9Is it, a variegated bird of prey, that mine inheritance is to me? The birds of prey, are round about against her! Go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field bring them to devour.

Ezekiel 29:5And I will stretch thee out towards the desert, Thee and all the fish of thy rivers, On the face of the field, shalt thou lie Thou shalt not be carried away nor shalt thou be gathered, To the wild beast of the earth and to the bird of the heavens, have I given thee for food.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 39:9-23

The Judgment of Gog. ( b. c. 585.) 8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God ; this is the day whereof I have spoken. 9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: 10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire:… Read the whole commentary →

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