Verse 30

Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and who sought his life.

Other Translations

  • GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil overgi farao Hophra, kongen av Egypt, til hans fiender og dem som søker hans liv, slik jeg ga Sidkia, kongen av Juda, i hendene på Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, hans fiende som søkte hans liv.

  • Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil gi farao Hofra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på hans fiender og dem som søker hans liv, slik jeg ga Sidkia, kongen av Juda, i hendene på Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, hans fiende som søkte hans liv.

  • Norsk King James

    Så sier HERREN; Se, jeg gir farao Hophra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på hans fiender, og i hendene på de som søker hans liv; slik som jeg ga Sedekia, kongen av Juda, i hendene på Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, hans fiende.

  • Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil gi farao Hophra, Egyptens konge, i fiendenes hender og i hendene på dem som søker hans liv, slik jeg ga Judas konge, Sidkia, i Nebukadnesars, Babels konges, hender, hans fiende som søkte hans liv.

  • Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg gir farao Hophra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på hans fiender og dem som søker hans liv, slik som jeg ga Sidkia, kongen av Juda, i Nebukadnesars hånd, Babels konge, som var hans fiende og søkte hans liv.

  • Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil gi farao Hophra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på hans fiender, og i hendene på dem som søker hans liv; slik jeg ga kong Sidkia av Juda i hendene på Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, hans fiende, som søkte hans liv.

  • o3-mini KJV Norsk

    «Slik sier Herren: Se, jeg vil overgi Farao Hophra, kongen av Egypt, til sine fiender og til dem som søker hans liv, slik jeg overga Zedekia, Judas konge, til sin fiende Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, som også søkte hans liv.»

  • En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil gi farao Hophra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på hans fiender, og i hendene på dem som søker hans liv; slik jeg ga kong Sidkia av Juda i hendene på Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, hans fiende, som søkte hans liv.

  • Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg gir farao Hophra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på hans fiender og dem som søker hans liv, slik jeg ga Juda-kongen Sidkia i hendene på babylonskongen Nebukadnesar, hans fiende og den som søkte hans liv.

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will hand Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, over to his enemies who want to kill him, just as I handed Zedekiah, king of Judah, over to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, his enemy who sought his life.

  • biblecontext

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  • GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil overgi farao Hofra, kongen av Egypt, i fiendenes hånd, i dem som søker hans liv, som jeg overga Judas konge Sidkia i Nebukadnesars hånd, Babels konge, hans fiende som søkte hans liv.

  • Original Norsk Bibel 1866

    Saa sagde Herren: See, jeg giver Pharao-Hophra, Kongen af Ægypten, i hans Fjenders Hænder og i deres Haand, som søge efter hans Liv, ligesom jeg gav Zedekias, Judæ Konge, i Nebucadnezars, Kongen af Babels, Haand, som var hans Fjende, og som søgte efter hans Liv.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

  • KJV 1769 norsk

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil gi farao Hofra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på hans fiender, og i hendene på dem som søker hans liv, som jeg ga Sidkia, kongen av Juda, i hendene på Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, hans fiende, og som søkte hans liv.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Webster

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil gi Farao Hofra, kongen av Egypt, i hans fienders hånd, de som søker hans liv; som jeg ga Judas konge Sidkia i hendene på Nebukadnesar, Babylons konge, som var hans fiende, og som søkte hans liv.

  • Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg gir Farao-Hofra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene til hans fiender, og de som søker hans liv, som jeg ga Sidkija, kongen av Juda, i hendene til kong Nebukadnesar av Babylon, hans fiende, som søkte hans liv.»

  • Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

    Så sier Herren: Se, jeg vil gi farao Hofra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på hans fiender, og i hendene på dem som søker hans liv, slik jeg ga Sidkia, kongen av Juda, i hendene på Nebukadnesar, kongen av Babylon, som var hans fiende og søkte hans liv.

  • Norsk oversettelse av BBE

    Herren har sagt: Se, jeg skal gi farao Hofra, kongen av Egypt, i hendene på dem som søker hans liv, slik jeg ga Judas konge Sidkia i hendene til Babylon-kongen Nebukadnesar, som søkte etter hans liv.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Beholde (saieth the LORDE I wil delyuer Pharao Ophram kynge of Egipte in to the hondes of his enemies, yt seke after his life: euen as I gaue Sedechias the kynge of Iuda in to the hondes of Nabuchodonosor kige of Babilo, which sought after his life.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will giue Pharaoh Hophra King of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seeke his life: as I gaue Zedekiah King of Iudah into the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel his enemie, who also sought his life.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Beholde saith the Lorde, I wyll deliuer Pharao Hophrea kyng of Egypt, into the handes of his enemies that seeke after his lyfe: euen as I gaue Zedekias the kyng of Iuda into the handes of Nabuchodonozor kyng of Babylon his enemie, whiche sought after his life.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving Pharaoh-Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those seeking his life, as I have given Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and who is seeking his life.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    I, the LORD, promise that I will hand Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt over to his enemies who are seeking to kill him. I will do that just as surely as I handed King Zedekiah of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his enemy who was seeking to kill him.’”

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 25:4-7 : 4 And the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king's garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city all around:) and the king went the way toward the plain. 5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army scattered from him. 6 So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah; and they pronounced judgment on him. 7 And they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
  • Jer 34:21 : 21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which have gone up from you.
  • Jer 39:5-7 : 5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. 6 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes; also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of Judah. 7 Moreover, he blinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with chains to carry him to Babylon.
  • Jer 43:9-9 : 9 Take large stones in your hand, and hide them in the clay in the brick kiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah; 10 And say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. 11 And when he comes, he shall strike the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword. 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace. 13 He shall also break the images of Bethshemesh, which is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.
  • Ezek 30:21 : 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it will not be bound up to be healed, to wrap with a bandage, to become strong to hold the sword.
  • Ezek 31:18-32:32 : 18 Who are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD. 1 And it happened in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are like a whale in the seas; and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers. 3 Thus says the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net. 4 Then will I leave you upon the land, I will cast you out upon the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to remain upon you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you. 5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. 6 I will also water with your blood the land where you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you. 7 And when I extinguish you, I will cover the sky, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. 8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD. 9 I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. 10 Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall. 11 For thus says the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed. 13 I will destroy also all its beasts from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them anymore, nor the hooves of beasts trouble them. 14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD. 15 When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country is destitute of all that which it was full, when I strike all those who dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD. 16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, for Egypt, and for all her multitude, says the Lord GOD. 17 It happened also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit. 19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised. 20 They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with those who help him: they have gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. 22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are all around him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is around her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living. 24 There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living; yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain. 26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are around him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 28 Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with those who are slain with the sword. 29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid by those who were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit. 30 There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit. 31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, says the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.
  • Jer 46:13-26 : 13 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon would come and strike the land of Egypt. 14 Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol, and proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say, Stand fast, and prepare yourself; for the sword shall devour around you. 15 Why are your valiant men swept away? They stood not, because the LORD drove them. 16 He made many to fall, yes, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our birth, from the oppressing sword. 17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has passed the appointed time. 18 As I live, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come. 19 O daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. 20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction comes; it comes out of the north. 21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, and have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity has come upon them, and the time of their visitation. 22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. 23 They shall cut down her forest, says the LORD, though it cannot be comprehended; because they are more numerous than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable. 24 The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north. 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says; Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all who trust in him: 26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says the LORD.
  • Jer 52:8-9 : 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment upon him. 10 And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; he also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. 11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
  • Ezek 29:1-9 : 1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt: 3 Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, which has said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. 4 But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales. 5 And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall upon the open fields; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given you as food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the sky. 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to be at a stand. 8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and cut off man and beast from you. 9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I am the LORD: because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it. 10 Behold, therefore I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even to the border of Ethiopia. 11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited for forty years. 12 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 13 Yet thus says the Lord GOD; At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the people where they were scattered: 14 And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a lowly kingdom. 15 It shall be the lowest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself anymore above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which brings their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 17 And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed raw: yet he had no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it: 19 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his labor with which he served against it, because they worked for me, says the Lord GOD. 21 In that day I will cause the horns of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.