Ezekiel 30:24

God will strengthen Babylon's arms and put his sword in its hand, while breaking Pharaoh's arms so he groans like a dying man. God empowers one nation and disables another.

Cross-references · 18

• Ezek 30:25But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
• Zeph 2:12Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
• Isa 45:1Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
• Neh 6:9For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
• Isa 45:5I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
• Job 24:12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
• Ezek 30:10Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
• Ezek 26:15Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
• Zech 10:11–12And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
• Ps 18:39For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
• Ps 18:32It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
• Ps 17:13Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
• Jer 27:6–8And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
• Ps 144:1Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
• Jer 51:52Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
• Deut 32:41–42If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
• Isa 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
• Isa 10:5–6O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

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