And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couching place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
- BSB I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
- NKJV And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.”
- NASB I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”
- NLT And I will turn the city of Rabbah into a pasture for camels, and all the land of the Ammonites into a resting place for sheep and goats. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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Quick answer
Rabbah, Ammon's capital, will become pasture for camels and flocks, and they will know that He is Yahweh. Judgment will reduce their pride to desolation and reveal God's lordship.
Overview
God promises to turn Rabbah, the proud Ammonite capital, into 'a stable for camels' and grazing land, a picture of utter ruin. The closing recognition formula, 'you shall know that I am Yahweh,' shows the purpose: even pagan nations are brought to acknowledge the true God through His acts. His sovereignty extends over all peoples and their judgments.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 21:20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
- 2 Sam 12:26And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
- Isa 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
- Ezek 25:8Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
- Isa 37:20Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
- Isa 32:14Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
- Ezek 30:8And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
- Deut 3:11For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
- Zeph 2:14–15And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
- Ezek 35:9I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ezek 24:24Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
- Ezek 38:23Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Ps 83:18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
- Ezek 26:6And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
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