Ezekiel 29:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.”
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““Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy concerning him, and concerning Egypt--all of it.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 29:2 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 18:1Woe to the land of whirring wings, along the rivers of Cush,
- Isaiah 20:1Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,
- Jeremiah 9:25“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
- Jeremiah 25:17So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
- Jeremiah 25:18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- Jeremiah 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;
- Jeremiah 43:8Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:
- Jeremiah 44:30This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”
- Jeremiah 46:2concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:
- Ezekiel 6:2“Son of man, set your face against the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.
- Ezekiel 20:46“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
- Ezekiel 21:2“Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
- Ezekiel 25:2“Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them.
- Ezekiel 28:21“Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.
- Ezekiel 30:1Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Joel 3:19Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- Zechariah 14:18And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
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