Ezekiel 11:10

11:10 You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 12:14

12:14 All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 26:6

26:6 and her daughters ¹  who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 30:5

30:5 Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, ²  Libya, and the people ³  of the covenant land ⁴  will die by the sword along with them.

Ezekiel 30:17

30:17 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth ⁵  will die by the sword;

and the cities will go ⁶  into captivity.

Ezekiel 32:11

32:11 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘The sword of the king of Babylon ⁷  will attack ⁸  you.

Ezekiel 32:22

32:22 “Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, ⁹  all of them struck down by the sword. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 33:3

33:3 He sees the sword coming against the land, blows the trumpet, ¹¹  and warns the people, ¹² 

Ezekiel 33:26

33:26 You rely ¹³  on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’

Ezekiel 35:8

35:8 I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

¹ sn That is, the towns located inland that were under Tyre’s rule.

¹ tn The same expression appears in Exod 12:38; Jer 25:20; 50:37; Neh 13:3. It may refer to foreign mercenaries serving in the armies of the nations listed here.

² tn Heb “sons.”

³ tn The expression “sons of the covenant land” possibly refers to Jews living in Egypt (Jer 44).

¹ sn On and Pi-beseth are generally identified with the Egyptian cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis.

² tn Heb “they will go.” The pronoun and verb are feminine plural, indicating that the cities just mentioned are the antecedent of the pronoun and the subject of the verb. The translation makes this clear by stating the subject as “the cities.”

¹ sn The king of Babylon referred to here was Nebuchadnezzar (Ezek 21:19).

² tn Heb “approach.”

¹ tn Heb “around him his graves.” The masculine pronominal suffixes are problematic; the expression is best emended to correspond to the phrase “around her grave” in v. 23. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:219.

² tn Heb “all of them slain, the ones felled by the sword.” See as well vv. 23-24.

¹ tn Heb “shofar,” a ram’s horn rather than a brass instrument (so throughout the chapter).

² tn Sounding the trumpet was a warning of imminent danger (Neh 4:18-20; Jer 4:19; Amos 3:6).

¹ tn Heb “stand.”