And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them.
- BSB And I will scatter to every wind all the attendants around him and all his troops, and I will draw a sword to chase after them.
- NKJV I will scatter to every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword after them.
- NASB And I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops; and I will draw out a sword after them.
- NLT I will scatter his servants and warriors to the four winds and send the sword after them.
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Quick answer
God will scatter to every wind all the king's helpers and pursue them with the sword.
Overview
The royal guard and attendants who flee with Zedekiah will be dispersed and cut down. The scattering fulfills the covenant curses for persistent disobedience (Lev. 26:33; Deut. 28:64). It shows that those who trust in human alliances rather than God share in his downfall.
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- Ezek 5:2Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
- 2 Kgs 25:4–5And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.
- Ezek 17:21And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
- Lev 26:33And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
- Ezek 14:21For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
- Ezek 14:17Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
- Jer 42:22Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.
- Jer 42:16Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
- Ezek 5:10–12Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
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