Ezekiel 6:7 “The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.”

Ezekiel 6:7

The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

World English Bible

The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

American Standard Version

And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the slaine shall fall in the middes of you, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord.

Darby Translation

And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

And fallen hath the wounded in your midst, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

And the dead will be falling down among you, and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Cross references

“slain”

Ezekiel 9:7 Jeremiah 14:18 Jeremiah 18:21 Jeremiah 25:33 Lamentations 4:9 Lamentations 2:20

Ezekiel 9:7 · BSB

Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

Jeremiah 14:18 · BSB

If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

Jeremiah 18:21 · BSB

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in…

Jeremiah 25:33 · BSB

Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.

Lamentations 4:9 · BSB

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

Lamentations 2:20 · BSB

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

“and ye”

Ezekiel 6:13 Ezekiel 7:4 Ezekiel 7:9 Ezekiel 11:10 Ezekiel 11:12 Ezekiel 12:15

Ezekiel 6:13 · BSB

Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragr…

Ezekiel 7:4 · BSB

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’

Ezekiel 7:9 · BSB

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

Ezekiel 11:10 · BSB

You will fall by the sword, and I will judge you even to the borders of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 11:12 · BSB

Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”

Ezekiel 12:15 · BSB

And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

8Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.

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