Ezekiel 39:20

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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שֻׁלְחָנִי֙

shulchân

H7979

“table · my”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 71× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 25:23

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7971

TWOT: 2395a

table - table - of king's table, private use, sacred uses

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

12: words
12: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Grammatical profile

1 verb
9 nouns
1 adjective
1 preposition

Verb forms

וּשְׂבַעְתֶּ֤ם Qal · Sequential Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 39:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Revelation 19:18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."
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.
Psalms 76:5–6 Valiant men lie plundered, They have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
Ezekiel 38:4 and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Ezekiel 39:20 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וּשְׂבַעְתֶּ֤ם עַל שֻׁלְחָנִי֙ ס֣וּס וָרֶ֔כֶב גִּבּ֖וֹר וְכָל אִ֣ישׁ מִלְחָמָ֑ה נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה

You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 39:20 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἐνπίμπλημι ἐπί ὁ τράπεζα ἐγώ ἵππος καί ἀναβάτης γίγας καί πᾶς ἀνήρ πολεμιστής λέγω κύριος

And you⌃ shall be filled at my table, eating horse, and rider, and mighty man, and every warrior, says the Lord.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְתִסְבְּעוּן עַל טוּרֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל סוּסְוָן וּרְתִיכִין גִבָּרִין וְכָל גַבְרֵי עָבְדֵי קְרָבָא אֲמַר יְיָ אֱלֹהִים:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 39:20 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 39:20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.

Ver. 20. With horses and chariots,] i.e., With men that ride on horses, and fight out of chariots.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

my table--the field of battle on the mountains of Israel (Eze 38:8, Eze 38:20).

chariots--that is, charioteers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

20. my table] It is the Lord that holds the sacrificial feast here (Eze_39:19), and it is his table to which he invites the fowls and beasts.

horses and chariots] It is scarcely necessary to point with LXX. horse and rider; “chariot” suggests that those borne in the chariot are intended. The term rendered “chariot” seems used, however, of “riding-beasts,” e.g. the ass and the camel, Isa_21:7; Isa_21:9; and there is no intimation elsewhere that Gog’s army rode in chariots: they were horsemen and bowmen.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Thus shall ye be filled at my table with horses and chariots,.... With the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, as John interprets it, Rev 19:18, and so the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions: and with the flesh of men that ride in chariots used in war; for chariots themselves cannot be eaten; and with these the birds and beasts of prey will be filled at the Lord's table, which he will furnish for them on the mountains of Israel, on the field of battle, where Gog and his army will fall: and thus as the Lord's supper is called the table of the Lord, Co1 10:21, so this table of the Lord is called the supper of the great God, Rev 19:17, this is further explained,

with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God; that is, with the flesh of valiant men, generals, captains, officers of all sorts, and common soldiers, even of all men, great and small, bond and free, Rev 19:18.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

At my table; in the field where Gog, his princes, and army are slain, compared to a table.

Horses put for horsemen, not common foot-soldiers.

Chariots for the men that ride in them.

Mighty men; see Eze 39:18.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

At my table - In the field where Gog, his princes, and army, are slain, compared to a table. Horses - Horsemen, not common foot soldiers. Chariots - The men that ride in them.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shulchân (“table”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “table” (shulchân) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Revelation 19:18, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וּשְׂבַעְתֶּ֤ם» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 16 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 23 words in this verse.
12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.