Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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].
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.
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 fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 21 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. 22 With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
Cross References
Judges 7:22
They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the 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
Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow: a very great confusion.
2 Chronicles 20:23
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.
Ezekiel 14:17
"Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, 'Sword, go through the land'; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
Haggai 2:22
I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.
Psalm 105:16
He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.