I will scatter his servants and warriors to the four winds and send 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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
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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 5:2A third part you shall burn in the fire in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. You shall take a third part, and strike with the sword around it. A third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- 2 Kgs 25:4–5Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
- Ezek 17:21All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’
- Lev 26:33I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
- Ezek 14:21For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
- Ezek 14:17“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’
- Jer 42:22Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to live there.”
- Jer 42:16then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, shall follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you shall die there.
- Ezek 5:10–12Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.
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