Parallel Verses
Amplified
I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. “Every man’s (invading soldier’s) sword will be against his brother (ally) [in panic and confusion].
New American Standard Bible
I will call for a
King James Version
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Holman Bible
I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains”—the declaration of the Lord God—“and every man’s sword will be against his brother.
International Standard Version
Then I'll call for war against Gog on top of every mountain,' declares the Lord GOD, "and every weapon of war will be turned against their fellow soldier.
A Conservative Version
And I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says lord LORD. Every man's sword shall be against his brother.
American Standard Version
And I will call for a sword against him unto all my mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Bible in Basic English
And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother.
Darby Translation
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Julia Smith Translation
And I called to all my mountains a sword against him, says the Lord Jehovah: and the sword of each shall be against his brother.
King James 2000
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, says the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I will call against him in all of my mountains a sword,' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, '[And] [the] sword of each [person] will be against his brother.
Modern King James verseion
And I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains, says the Lord Jehovah. Each man's sword shall be against his brother.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will call for a sword upon them in all my mountains, sayeth the LORD God: so that every man's sword shall be upon another.
NET Bible
I will call for a sword to attack Gog on all my mountains, declares the sovereign Lord; every man's sword will be against his brother.
New Heart English Bible
I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,' says the Lord GOD: 'every man's sword shall be against his brother.
The Emphasized Bible
Then will I call against him, every terror, Declareth My Lord Yahweh, the sword of every man against his brother, shall be;
Webster
And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
World English Bible
I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I have called against him, to all My mountains a sword, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, The sword of each is against his brother.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 38:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Message To Gog
20
so that the fishes of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, all the creatures that crawl on the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth will tremble and shake at My presence; the mountains will crumble, the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
21 I will call for a sword against Gog throughout all My mountains,” says the Lord God. “Every man’s (invading soldier’s) sword will be against his brother (ally) [in panic and confusion].
22
With pestilence and with bloodshed I will enter into judgment with Gog; and I will rain on him torrents of rain with [great] hailstones,
Cross References
Judges 7:22
When Gideon’s men blew the three hundred trumpets, the Lord set the sword of one [Midianite] against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
1 Samuel 14:20
Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle; and behold, every [Philistine] man’s sword was against his companion, in wild confusion.
2 Chronicles 20:23
For the sons of Ammon and Moab [suspecting betrayal] rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, completely destroying them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I were to bring a sword on that land and say, ‘Let a sword go through the land and cut off man and animal from it,’
Haggai 2:22
I will [in the distant future] overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the [ungodly] nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them, and the horses and their riders will go down, every one by the sword of his brother [annihilating one another].
Psalm 105:16
And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He