Ezekiel 38:12

Easy To Read Version

I will defeat those people and take all their valuable things away from them. I will fight against the places that were destroyed but now have people living in them. I will fight against those people (Israel) that were gathered from the nations. Now those people have cattle and property. They live at the crossroads of the world—\{The powerful countries must travel through that place to get to all the other powerful countries\}.’

Cross References

Isaiah 10:6

I will send Assyria to fight against the people that do evil things. I am angry at those people, and I will command Assyria to fight against them. Assyria will defeat them and Assyria will take their wealth from them. Israel will become like dirt for Assyria to trample (walk on) in the streets.

Jeremiah 30:16

Those nations destroyed you,\par but now they have been destroyed.\par Israel and Judah,\par your enemies will become captives. {\cf2\super [240]} \par Those people stole things from you.\par But other people will steal from them.\par Those people took things from you in war.\par But other people will take things\par from them in war.\par

Ezekiel 29:19

So the Lord my Master says these things, “I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. And Nebuchadnezzar will carry away Egypt’s people. Nebuchadnezzar will take the many valuable things in Egypt. This will be the pay for Nebuchadnezzar’s army.

Ezekiel 38:8

After a long time you will be called for duty. In the later years you will come into the land that has been healed from war. The people in that land were gathered from many nations and brought back to the mountains of Israel. In the past, the mountains of Israel had been destroyed again and again. But these people will have come back from those other nations. They all will have lived in safety.

Amos 1:8

And I will destroy the one that sits \{on the throne\} in Ashdod. {\cf2\super [15]} I will destroy the king that holds the scepter in Ashkelon. {\cf2\super [16]} I will punish the people of Ekron. {\cf2\super [17]} Then the Philistines that are still left alive, will die.” The Lord God said those things.

Zechariah 1:12

Then the Lord’s angel said, “Lord, how long before you comfort Jerusalem and the cities of Judah? You have shown your anger at these cities for 70 years now.”

Zechariah 1:17

The angel also said,\par “The Lord All-Powerful says,\par ‘My towns will be rich again.\par I will comfort Zion.\par I will again choose Jerusalem\par to be my special city.’”\par

Zechariah 13:7

The Lord All-Powerful says, “Sword, hit the shepherd! Hit my friend! Hit the shepherd and the sheep will run away. And I will punish those little ones.

Judges 9:37

But again Gaal said, “Look, there are some people coming down from that place over there, by Land’s Navel. And there! I saw someone’s head over by Magician’s Tree. [85] ”