Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
Parallel translations
- KJV Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
- BSB Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
- NKJV Moab is plundered and gone up from her cities; Her chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, Whose name is the Lord of hosts.
- NASB “Moab has been destroyed and men have gone up to his cities; His choicest young men have also gone down to the slaughter,” Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.
- NLT But now Moab and his towns will be destroyed. His most promising youth are doomed to slaughter,” says the King, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Quick answer
Moab is laid waste and her finest young men go down to slaughter, declares the King, the LORD of Armies.
Overview
The boast of verse 14 is answered as Moab's choicest warriors fall in defeat. The title 'the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies' stresses God's supreme sovereignty over the nations. Earthly kings and armies are overruled by the true King, whose reign is fully revealed in Christ, King of kings.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 50:27Kill all her bulls. Let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them! For their day has come, the time of their visitation.
- Jer 46:18“As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
- Jer 51:57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
- Isa 40:30–31Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
- Mal 1:14“But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
- Zech 14:9Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
- Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
- Ps 47:2For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
- Ps 24:8–10Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
- Jer 48:4Moab is destroyed. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
- Rev 19:16He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
- Jer 48:8–25The destroyer will come on every city, and no city will escape; the valley also will perish, and the plain will be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
- Jer 51:40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
- Isa 34:2–8For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
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