Ezekiel 13:22

13:22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.

Ezekiel 18:21

18:21 “But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

Ezekiel 21:3-4

21:3 and say to them, ¹  ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, ²  I am against you. ³  I will draw my sword ⁴  from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. ⁵  21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone ⁶  from the south ⁷  to the north.

Ezekiel 21:25

21:25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, ⁸ 

whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

Ezekiel 33:9

33:9 But if you warn the wicked man to change his behavior, ⁹  and he refuses to change, ¹⁰  he will die for his iniquity, but you have saved your own life.

Ezekiel 33:15

33:15 He ¹¹  returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, ¹²  committing no iniquity. He will certainly live – he will not die.

¹ tn Heb “the land of Israel.”

² tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.

³ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

⁴ sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.

⁵ sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.

¹ tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

² tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

¹ tn This probably refers to King Zedekiah.

¹ tn Heb “from his way to turn from it.”

² tn Heb “and he does not turn from his way.”

¹ tn Heb “the wicked one.”

² tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”