Ezekiel 39:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

Eat

Ezekiel 29:5

Ezekiel 34:8

Revelation 19:17

Of bullocks

Fatlings

Deuteronomy 32:14

Psalm 22:12

Amos 4:1

General references

Ezekiel 32:4

Bible References

Eat

I will abandon you to the wilderness and all the fish of your rivers. You will fall on the open field. You will not be brought together or gathered. I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

As I am alive, declares the Lord Jehovah, because there is no shepherd, my sheep have become prey. My sheep have become food for wild animals. My shepherds have not searched for my sheep. They have taken care of only themselves, not my sheep.'

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice to all the fowls that fly in midheaven: Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God;

Of bullocks

Threaten the beast that is among the cattails, the herd of bulls with the calves of the nations, until it humbles itself with pieces of silver. Scatter the people who find joy in war.

Wild oxen will be killed with them, young bulls along with rams. Their land will be drenched with blood. Their dust will be covered with fat.

You are happy and excited. You have looted the people who belong to me. You dance around like calves on the grass and neigh like stallions.

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats.

Fatlings

He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes.

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls from Bashan have encircled me.

Hear this word you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria. You oppress the poor. You crush the needy. You say to your masters (husbands) (lords), Bring us drink.

General references

Your body will be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth. And no man shall frighten them away.

They will all be left for the birds of prey on the mountains and the wild animals. The birds of prey will feed on them in the summer. All the wild animals on earth will feed on them in the winter.

The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth. No one will frighten them away.

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams together with male goats.

I will leave you on the land. I will cast you on the open field. I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you. And I will satisfy the beasts of the entire earth with you.