What Does Ezekiel 39:21 Mean in the King James?
And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
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
Here, glory carries weight: God places it among the nations, where judgment and the hand laid upon them make it visible.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks now of God’s weight made visible among the nations. They see judgment carried out and the hand laid upon them; the action is direct and consequential. Divine presence here is public, not remote.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
That divine glory is only distant radiance, untouched by the force of judgment.
THE ROOT
כָּבוֹד
kavod
GROWS FROM
כבד
To be heavy or weighty; to accord weight or honor.
This root holds heaviness and honor together: what is weighty carries force and receives attention. Here God’s weight is set among the nations and disclosed through judgment; glory carries public consequence and perceptible force.
ALSO GROWS
kāvēd: Heavy, weighty.
כָּבֵד
It makes the physical sense of weight audible beneath the verse’s word for glory.
kibbēd: To treat as weighty; to honor.
כִּבֵּד
It shows how the same root moves from weight to the recognition or honoring of that weight.
וְנָתַתִּי
venatatti
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, set, or place.
The verb is a first-person form of natan, which means give, set, or place. God’s weight is given a place among the nations, making its public visibility part of the verse’s wording.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This is the verb’s lexical form and holds the verse’s sense of deliberate placement.
mattanah: A gift; something given.
מַתָּנָה
It shows the same root’s movement from the act of giving to what is given.
THE PATTERN
God’s weight becomes publicly visible among nations through acts of judgment and deliverance.
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.THE THREAD
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.The KJV’s “honoured” comes from כבד (kabad, to be heavy or weighty), the same root as כָּבוֹד (kavod, weight or glory) in Ezekiel. Here too, God’s action upon a nation makes that weight publicly visible.
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