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Ezekiel 39:18 Explained in Context
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Verse 18. 18Ye 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.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Ezekiel states or reports “Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth…” at Ezekiel 39:18 as a specific part of “Birds and Beasts Attend a Sacrificial Feast on the Invaders.”
Read It With
- Ezekiel 39:17–22
Read Ezekiel 39:18 with 39:17–22. By itself, “Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: A grotesque feast summons creatures to eat warriors and rulers until they are filled, displaying divine glory and Israel's recognition.
Why It Needs Context
This context pointer tracks one step in Ezekiel 39:17–22: The prophetic word through Ezekiel states or reports “Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth…” at Ezekiel 39:18 as a specific part of “Birds and Beasts Attend a Sacrificial Feast on the Invaders.” Read the thought unit before assigning enduring truth or application.
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Read Ezekiel 39:17–22 — Birds and Beasts Attend a Sacrificial Feast on the InvadersSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 39:17–22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 39:17–22
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