Ezekiel 12:13

12:13 But I will throw my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans ¹  (but he will not see it), ²  and there he will die. ³ 

Ezekiel 13:10

13:10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” ⁴  when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, ⁵  they coat it with whitewash.

Ezekiel 17:20

17:20 I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.

Ezekiel 30:11

30:11 He and his people with him,

the most terrifying of the nations, ⁶ 

will be brought there to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with corpses.

Ezekiel 31:17

31:17 Those who lived in its shade, its allies ⁷  among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.

Ezekiel 36:29

36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.

Ezekiel 39:15

39:15 When the scouts survey ⁸  the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it ⁹  in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

¹ tn Or “Babylonians” (NCV, NLT).

² sn He will not see it. This prediction was fulfilled in 2 Kgs 25:7 and Jer 52:11, which recount how Zedekiah was blinded before being deported to Babylon.

³ sn There he will die. This was fulfilled when King Zedekiah died in exile (Jer 52:11).

⁴ tn Or “peace.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew word only occurs here in the Bible. According to L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:202-3) it is also used in the Mishnah of a wall of rough stones without mortar. This fits the context here comparing the false prophetic messages to a nice coat of whitewash on a structurally unstable wall.

⁷ tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).

¹⁰ tn Heb “its arm.”

¹³ tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”

¹⁴ tn That is, the aforementioned bone.