What Does Ezekiel 35:8 Mean in the King James?
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse turns judgment into geography: mountains, hills, valleys, and watercourses become places where the slain fill the land.
THE MEANING
You encounter a vision of judgment that reaches across the whole terrain: mountains, hills, valleys, and river channels become places where people lie slain by the sword. The verse keeps the violence bodily and specific; its repeated place names leave no part of the landscape untouched.
THE ROOT
חֲלָלָיו
ḥălālāyw
GROWS FROM
ח־ל־ל
ḥ-l-l
To pierce or wound; a pierced or wounded person.
The root keeps the bodily piercing inside the word “slain.” The scene is not an abstract sign of judgment: the land is filled with people wounded to death.
ALSO GROWS
ḥālal: To pierce or wound.
חָלַל
The verb makes the bodily action behind “slain” visible.
meḥolal: Pierced or wounded; used in Isaiah 53:5.
מְחֹלָל
This form shows the same root describing a wounded person, linking the outcome “slain” to the act of piercing.
THE PATTERN
Judgment is made visible through the bodies it leaves across the land.
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.THE THREAD
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.Ezekiel’s חֲלָלָיו (ḥălālāyw, “his slain ones”) and Isaiah’s מְחֹלָל (meḥolal, “wounded”) come from חלל (ḥ-l-l, “pierce, wound”). The shared root keeps the physical wound in view, linking the many slain here with the singular wounded figure there.
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