Ezekiel 25:5

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“I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

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BSBPD

“I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“And I have given Rabbah for a habitation of camels, And the sons of Ammon for the crouching of a flock, And ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 25:5 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 3:11(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
  2. 2 Samuel 12:26Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.
  3. Psalms 83:18May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
  4. Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
  5. Isaiah 32:14For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever— the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
  6. Isaiah 37:20And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
  7. Ezekiel 21:20Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
  8. Ezekiel 21:25And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’
  9. Ezekiel 24:24‘Thus Ezekiel will be a sign for you; you will do everything that he has done. When this happens, you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
  10. Ezekiel 25:8This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
  11. Ezekiel 26:6and the villages on her mainland will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’
  12. Ezekiel 30:8Then they will know that I am the LORD when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are shattered.
  13. Ezekiel 35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  14. Ezekiel 38:23I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
  15. Zephaniah 2:6So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
  16. Zephaniah 2:14Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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