Ezekiel 39 — Gog’s defeat, the land cleansed and Israel gathered — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: 39:6, 39:28, 39:29
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Ezekiel 39 — Gog’s defeat, the land cleansed and Israel gathered
39:1–39:10 — Gog falls and the weapons burn
Verse 39:1 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:1] “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:1] “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, Gog, ruler of Rhos, Mosoch and Thobel,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The chief-prince versus named Rhos distinction from 38:2–3 recurs.
Verse 39:2 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:2] I will turn you around, drive you on, bring you up from the far north and bring you upon Israel’s mountains.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:2] and I will gather you, lead you along, bring you up from the farthest north and bring you upon Israel’s mountains.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew turning and the rare shishshe’tikha, provisionally drive you on, becomes Greek gathering and leading. No numerical remnant is inserted into the rare Hebrew verb.
Verse 39:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:3] I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:3] I will destroy your bow from your left hand and your arrows from your right hand, and strike you down
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew makes the arrows fall; Greek adds striking Gog down, continuing into 39:4.
Verse 39:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:4] Upon Israel’s mountains you will fall, you, all your troops and the peoples with you. I have given you as food to birds of prey of every wing and to the field’s animals.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:4] upon Israel’s mountains. You and all those around you will fall, and the nations with you will be given to multitudes of birds. I have given you to every flying creature and all the plain’s beasts to be eaten.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek completes the preceding striking-down clause and separately gives the allied nations to bird multitudes before the divine giving of Gog.
Verse 39:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:5] Upon the open field you will fall, for I have spoken, declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:5] Upon the open plain you will fall, for I have spoken, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The announced fall agrees.
Verse 39:6 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:6] I will send fire into Magog and among those dwelling securely in the coastlands. They will know that I am YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:6] I will send fire upon Gog, and the islands will be inhabited in peace. They will know that I am the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew burns Magog and secure coastal inhabitants; Greek burns Gog and positively promises peaceful island habitation.
Verse 39:7 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:7] I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and no longer profane My holy name. The nations will know that I am YHWH, holy in Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:7] My holy name will be known among My people Israel and will no longer be profaned. The nations will know that I am the Lord, holy in Israel.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew explicitly gives God’s first-person actions, including no longer profane; Greek uses passive knowing and profaning.
Verse 39:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:8] Behold, it comes and has happened, declares Lord YHWH. This is the day of which I spoke.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:8] Behold, it has arrived, and you will know that it will be, says the Lord, the Lord. This is the day on which I spoke.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Greek adds you will know and future existence, and gives the day on which God spoke rather than Hebrew the day spoken of.
Verse 39:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:9] Those dwelling in Israel’s cities will go out, kindle and burn the weapons: small and large shields, bows and arrows, hand clubs and spears. They will burn fires with them for seven years.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:9] Those dwelling in Israel’s cities will go out and burn fires with the weapons: small shields, pikes, bows, arrows, hand staffs and spears. They will burn fires with them for seven years.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: The seven-year duration agrees; Greek pikes replaces Hebrew large shields.
Verse 39:10 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:10] They will not carry wood from the field or cut it from the forests, for they will burn fires with the weapons. They will despoil their despoilers and plunder their plunderers, declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:10] They certainly will not take wood from the plain or cut it from the woods; they will burn the weapons with fire. They will plunder those who plundered them and strip those who stripped them, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both preserve the two negatives and the reversal of plundering.
39:11–39:16 — The burial and the bone markers
Verse 39:11 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:11] On that day I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel, the valley of the travelers east of the sea, and it will block the travelers. They will bury Gog and all his multitude there and call it the Valley of Gog’s Multitude.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:11] On that day I will give Gog a notable place, a memorial tomb in Israel, the mass grave of those who came against it, beside the sea. They will build around the valley’s mouth and bury Gog and all his multitude there. It will be called Gai, Gog’s Mass Grave.
Classification & Notes
Divergent. Text: Hebrew travelers, east of the sea and blocking passage becomes Greek attackers, beside the sea and walling the mouth. Greek retains gai as a transliterated valley term and renders the multitude location as a mass grave.
Verse 39:12 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:12] Israel’s house will bury them for seven months to cleanse the land.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:12] Israel’s house will bury them over seven months so that the land may be cleansed.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The seven-month burial and cleansing agree.
Verse 39:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:13] All the land’s people will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I am glorified, declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:13] All the land’s people will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day I was glorified, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew prospective glorification becomes a Greek past tense.
Verse 39:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:14] They will set apart men for continual duty, passing through the land, burying the travelers, those remaining upon the land’s surface, to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will search.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:14] They will continually designate men to pass through the land and bury those left upon the land’s surface, to cleanse it after the seven months, and they will search.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew repeats travelers as the burial object, a difficult construction retained provisionally. Greek lacks that repetition and places after seven months with cleansing before the final search clause.
Verse 39:15 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:15] The travelers will pass through the land. When one sees a human bone, he will build a marker beside it until the buriers bury it in the Valley of Gog’s Multitude.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:15] Everyone passing through the land who sees a human bone will build a marker beside it until the buriers bury it in Gai, Gog’s Mass Grave.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: Both give the same marking and later burial procedure, with their respective valley names.
Verse 39:16 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:16] The city’s name will also be Hamonah. They will cleanse the land.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:16] Indeed, the city’s name will be Mass Grave, and the land will be cleansed.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew Hamonah, associated with multitude, becomes Greek Polyandreion, Mass Grave. Hebrew active cleansing becomes Greek passive.
39:17–39:20 — The great sacrificial feast
Verse 39:17 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:17] And you, son of man, thus says Lord YHWH: Say to every winged bird and every animal of the field, Gather and come! Assemble from all around to My sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice upon Israel’s mountains. You will eat flesh and drink blood.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:17] And you, son of man, say, Thus says the Lord: Say to every flying bird and all the plain’s beasts, Gather and come! Gather from all those around to My sacrifice that I have sacrificed for you, a great sacrifice upon Israel’s mountains. You will eat flesh and drink blood.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew ongoing sacrifice becomes Greek completed sacrifice; both retain the full summons.
Verse 39:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:18] You will eat mighty men’s flesh and drink the blood of the land’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats and bulls, all fattened beasts of Bashan.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:18] You will eat giants’ flesh and drink the blood of the land’s rulers: rams, calves and male goats, and the calves all fattened.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew mighty men becomes Greek giants. The animal list differs, and Greek lacks Bashan while repeating calves.
Verse 39:19 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:19] You will eat fat to satisfaction and drink blood to drunkenness from My sacrifice that I sacrificed for you.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:19] You will eat fat to fullness and drink blood to drunkenness from My sacrifice that I sacrificed for you.
Classification & Notes
Same. Text: The two measures of consumption agree.
Verse 39:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:20] At My table you will be filled with horse and chariotry, mighty man and every warrior, declares Lord YHWH.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:20] At My table you will be filled with horse and rider, giant and every warrior, says the Lord.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew chariotry becomes Greek rider, and mighty man becomes giant.
39:21–39:24 — The nations recognize the judgment
Verse 39:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:21] I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see My judgment that I have executed and My hand that I have laid upon them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:21] I will set My glory among you, and all the nations will see My judgment that I executed and My hand that I brought upon them.
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew glory among the nations becomes Greek glory among you.
Verse 39:22 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:22] Israel’s house will know that I am YHWH their God from that day onward.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:22] Israel’s house will know that I am the Lord their God from this day onward.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew that day becomes Greek this day.
Verse 39:23 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:23] The nations will know that Israel’s house went into exile for their iniquity, because they acted unfaithfully against Me. I hid My face from them and gave them into their enemies’ hand, and all of them fell by the sword.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:23] All the nations will know that Israel’s house was taken captive because of their sins, because they acted faithlessly toward Me. I turned My face from them and handed them into their enemies’ hands, and all fell by the sword.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Greek adds all nations and has captivity, sins and turning the face for Hebrew exile, iniquity and hiding it.
Verse 39:24 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:24] I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and hid My face from them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:24] I dealt with them according to their uncleannesses and lawless acts, and turned My face from them.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: The grounds for judgment agree; hidden becomes turned face.
39:25–39:29 — The return and the unveiled face
Verse 39:25 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:25] Therefore thus says Lord YHWH: Now I will restore Jacob’s fortunes, have compassion on all Israel’s house and be zealous for My holy name.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:25] Therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord: Now I will reverse Jacob’s captivity, show mercy to Israel’s house and be zealous for My holy name.
Classification & Notes
Similar. Text: Hebrew’s restoration-of-fortunes/captivity idiom becomes explicit Greek captivity; Greek lacks all before Israel’s house.
Verse 39:26 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:26] They will bear their shame and all their unfaithfulness by which they acted unfaithfully against Me, when they dwell securely upon their soil with no one making them afraid,
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:26] They will receive their own dishonor and the injustice they committed when they are settled upon their land in peace, and no one will terrify them,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew explicitly names unfaithfulness against God and all; Greek their injustice and dishonor without the against-Me clause.
Verse 39:27 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:27] when I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from their enemies’ lands, and show Myself holy through them before many nations’ eyes.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:27] when I bring them back from the nations and gather them from the nations’ countries; I will be sanctified in them before the nations,
Classification & Notes
Different. Text: Hebrew enemies’ lands becomes Greek nations’ countries; Greek lacks many.
Verse 39:28 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:28] They will know that I am YHWH their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and gathered them upon their soil, leaving none of them there any longer.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:28] and they will know that I am the Lord their God when I appear to them among the nations.
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew explains exile, gathering and leaving none behind; Greek instead gives God’s appearing to them among the nations.
Verse 39:29 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[39:29] I will no longer hide My face from them, because I have poured My Spirit upon Israel’s house, declares Lord YHWH.’”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[39:29] I will no longer turn My face from them, because I poured My wrath upon Israel’s house, says the Lord, the Lord.’”
Classification & Notes
Disparate. Text: Hebrew My Spirit becomes Greek My wrath. Neither column is conformed to the other.