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The place will be littered with corpses, and you will know that I alone am the Lord.
Ezekiel 6:7 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB The slain shall fall among you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • KJV And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
  • BSB The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
  • NKJV The slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
  • NASB The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

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Quick answer

The slain will fall among the people, and they will know that He is Yahweh. Judgment serves to reveal the true God.

Overview

Amid the falling dead, the recurring purpose surfaces: 'you shall know that I am Yahweh.' Even devastating judgment aims at the recognition of God's identity and sovereignty. This refrain runs through Ezekiel, teaching that God acts so that people, hardened by idolatry, will at last acknowledge the only true and living God.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 37

  • Lam 4:9Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
  • Ezek 28:23For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall within her, with the sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Dan 4:35–37All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
  • Ezek 13:21I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
  • Exod 7:5The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch out my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.”
  • Ezek 7:9My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. I will bring on you according to your ways. Your abominations will be among you; and you will know that I, Yahweh, strike.
  • Ezek 30:26I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 7:4My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’
  • Ezek 24:27In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 20:38I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who disobey against me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.”
  • Ezek 20:42You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.
  • Ezek 26:6Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 15:7I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will devour them; and you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
  • Jer 25:33The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.
  • Ps 83:17–18Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
  • Ezek 6:13You will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.
  • Lam 2:20–21“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their offspring, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Ezek 13:9“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who divine lies. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh”
  • Ezek 11:10You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you will know that I am Yahweh.
  • Dan 6:26–27I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
  • Ezek 35:15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 38:23I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 14:8I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people; and you will know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 13:14So will I break down the wall that you have plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be uncovered. It will fall, and you will be consumed in the middle of it. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
  • Exod 14:4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.
  • Ezek 25:17I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.
  • Ezek 23:49They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”
  • 2 Kgs 19:19Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”
  • Jer 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
  • Ezek 13:23Therefore you shall no more see false visions, nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’”
  • Jer 14:18If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’”
  • Ezek 20:44You shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, you house of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”
  • Ezek 11:12You will know that I am Yahweh, for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.”’”
  • Ezek 24:24Thus Ezekiel shall be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
  • Ezek 12:15“‘They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the nations, and scatter them through the countries.
  • Exod 14:18The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”
  • Ezek 9:7He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” They went out, and struck in the city.

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