if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;
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if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blows the trumpet, and warns the people;
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If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
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if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the horn, and warn the people;
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 33:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hosea 8:1 “Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
- Nehemiah 4:20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
- Nehemiah 4:18 Among the builders, everyone wore his sword at his side, and so built. He who sounded the trumpet was by me.
- Isaiah 58:1 “Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Joel 2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:
- Jeremiah 4:5 Declare in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, ‘Blow the trumpet in the land!’ Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves! Let’s go into the fortified cities!’
- Jeremiah 6:1 “Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction.
- Jeremiah 51:27 “Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
- Ezekiel 33:8-9 When I tell the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man will die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand. Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn’t turn from his way; he will die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 33:3 If when he seeth the sword come…
Eze 33:3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Ver. 3. He blow the trumpet.] Hence the ancients {a} infer that a bishop must preach, and that Praelati officium est sollicitudo non celsitudo. He taketh upon him the office of a constant preacher, saith Gregory, that undertaketh to be a minister.
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{a} Clemens, Bernard.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The sword of the enemy, or any other danger…
The sword of the enemy, or any other danger which he may foresee in any of the causes or forerunners of it.
Come, i.e. coming, approaching to the land.
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Blow the trumpet; sound the alarm: the sound of the trumpet is a warning, yet to this sometimes it is necessary to add a warning by word of month, and tell the people brought together by the trumpet what he seeth.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If what he seeth the sword come upon the…
If what he seeth the sword come upon the land,.... Or those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; as soon as he observes a body of armed men, more or less, marching towards the borders of the land with a manifest intention to enter and invade it:
he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; warn the people by blowing the trumpet, the signal agreed on; by which they would understand that an enemy was at hand, or danger near; or warn them by word of mouth, as well as by the trumpet, where he could do it, and when it was necessary.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the sword--invaders. An appropriate illustration at the time of…
the sword--invaders. An appropriate illustration at the time of the invasion of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. The trumpet was the signal of danger, Hos_8:1;…
3. The trumpet was the signal of danger, Hos_8:1; Amo_3:6; Jer_6:1.
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