Ezekiel 12:14

14 And all who [are] around him, his help and all of his troops I will scatter {in every direction}, and I will draw [the] sword behind them.

Ezekiel 12:14 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 12:14

And I will scatter to every wind all that [are] about him to
help him
Either his bodyguards, the men of war that were with him when he fled, ( Jeremiah 52:7 ) ; or his auxiliary troops, the Egyptians, whom he had taken into his pay for his assistance: and all his bands:
or "wings" ^F23; the wings of his army. The Targum interprets it his army; these were all scattered from him when he was taken, ( Jeremiah 52:8 ) ; and I will draw out the sword after them:
which fled into Egypt, and other countries; so that they did not escape, though they went not into captivity; see ( Ezekiel 5:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (wypga) "alas militum", Montanus; "alas ejus", Cocceius, Starckius; so Ben Melech.

Ezekiel 12:14 In-Context

12 And the prince who [is] in the midst of them, on [his] shoulder he will carry [the baggage] in the dusk, and he will go out; {the wall will be dug through} to bring him through it; and he will cover his face so that he will not see the land with his eye.

13 And I will spread out my net on him, and he will be captured in my hunting snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die.

14 And all who [are] around him, his help and all of his troops I will scatter {in every direction}, and I will draw [the] sword behind them.

15 And they will know that I [am] Yahweh {when I scatter them} among the nations and I scatter them in the countries.

16 But I will spare from them {a few men} from [the] sword, from [the] famine and from [the] plague, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations [to] which they will go, and they will know that I [am] Yahweh."

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "support"
• [b]. Literally "to every direction of the wind"
• [c]. Or "unsheathe"