What Does Ezekiel 7:14 Mean in the King James?
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
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 trumpet can gather readiness, but it cannot make a people move when judgment has overtaken them.
THE MEANING
The trumpet sounds and the multitude is made ready, yet no one advances into battle because the LORD’s wrath rests on them all. The verse holds visible preparation beside complete inaction: readiness does not itself make movement possible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that being prepared guarantees you can act when the moment comes; here, all is ready, yet no one goes.
THE ROOT
תָּקְעוּ
taq'u
GROWS FROM
תקע
taqa: thrust, drive in, or strike; also sound a horn.
“blown the trumpet” in this verse is taq'u. The verb for sounding the trumpet belongs to a root that also carries the force of thrusting or striking. The signal is forceful, but the verse shows that even a forceful summons cannot make anyone advance.
ALSO GROWS
teqiah: A trumpet blast or sounding.
תְּקִיעָה
This noun from the same root names the signal heard in the verse: the blast sounds, but no one follows it into battle.
hitqa'ta kapeikha: You have struck your palm, as in pledging yourself (Proverbs 6:1).
הִתְקַעְתָּ כַּפֶּךָ
The root also describes a striking hand used to seal a pledge, linking a forceful signal with a response that binds the one who gives it.
וְהָכִין
ve-hakhin
GROWS FROM
כון
kun: be firm or established; in the Hiphil, set in place or prepare.
The word rendered “make ready” comes from the root for being firmly established. The verse sharpens its paradox: the multitude is set in readiness, yet the next clause says no one is going.
ALSO GROWS
makhon: A fixed place or foundation.
מָכוֹן
This noun carries the root’s sense of something established in place, echoing the preparation made before the stillness.
konen: To establish or set firmly.
כּוֹנֵן
This branch makes the root’s firmness explicit: preparation establishes a state, but here it does not produce movement.
THE PATTERN
Preparation or willingness does not guarantee action; the condition governing the moment determines whether movement follows.
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.THE THREAD
If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;The same Hebrew root תקע describes sounding the trumpet in both verses. Here in Ezekiel 33:3, the blast warns the people of the sword; in Ezekiel 7:14, the trumpet has sounded, but no one moves into battle.
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