Ezekiel 24:22 (KJV)

Thou and Ye

ye, your more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

The extent of the sufferings of the JewsThough mourning for the dead is a duty, yet it must be kept under by religion and right reason: we must not sorrow as men that have no hope. Believers must...

Parallel Passages

Jeremiah 16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
Ezekiel 24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

Job 27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Psalms 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Jeremiah 16:4–7 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. …
Jeremiah 47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
Ezekiel 24:16–17 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. …
Amos 6:9–10 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. …

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Topics

Babylon Prophecies of conquests by
Ezekiel Does not show mourning upon the death of his wife
Instruction Widowhood
Israel, prophecies concerning Of war and other judgments
Mourning The upper lip

Timeline

Timeline of the Bible595–572 BC · Ezekiel

Hebrew and Strong’s

And ye shall do וַעֲשִׂיתֶם waʿăśîtem עָשָׂה Verb · qal sequential perfect, second person masculine plural · with and
as I have done כַּאֲשֶׁר kaʾăšer Relative · with preposition עָשִׂיתִי ʿāśîtî עָשָׂה Verb · qal perfect, first person common singular
ye shall not cover לֹא lōʾ Negative תַעְטוּ taʿṭû עָטָה Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine plural
lips עַל ʿal Preposition שָׂפָם śāpām שָׂפָם Noun · masculine singular
nor eat לֹא lōʾ Negative תֹאכֵלוּ tōʾkēlû אָכַל Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine plural
the bread וְלֶחֶם wĕleḥem לֶחֶם Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct · with and
of men אֲנָשִׁים ʾănāšîm Noun · masculine plural אֱנוֹשׁ ʼĕnôwsh

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0