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Ezekiel 38:12

King James Version (KJV)

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Ezekiel 38:12

Verse 12 of 23

Scripture focus

To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited, and upon the people [that are] gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

Ezekiel 38:12 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ezekiel 38:12

Theological / Devotional

The midst of the land. Literally, “the navel [height] of the earth.” The figure is used elsewhere only in Judges 9:37, but there applied presumably to a hill near Shechem, probably from its central location with respect to the Jordan and the Mediterranean. Here Palestine is represented as in the center of the earth, perhaps in the same way as Jerusalem was set “in the midst of the nations and countries” (Eze. 5:5).

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