Ezekiel 16:3

16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Ezekiel 16:45

16:45 You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 16:1

God’s Unfaithful Bride

16:1 The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 21:16

21:16 Cut sharply on the right!

Swing to ¹  the left,

wherever your edge ²  is appointed to strike.

Ezekiel 21:2

21:2 “Son of man, turn toward ³  Jerusalem ⁴  and speak out against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel

Ezekiel 17:11

17:11 Then the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 17:15

17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family ⁵  rebelled against the king of Babylon ⁶  by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

Ezekiel 21:9

21:9 “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘A sword, a sword is sharpened,

and also polished.

Ezra 9:1

A Prayer of Ezra

9:1 Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents ⁷  who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Psalms 106:35-38

106:35 They mixed in with the nations

and learned their ways. ⁸ 

106:36 They worshiped ⁹  their idols,

which became a snare to them. ¹⁰ 

106:37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. ¹¹ 

106:38 They shed innocent blood –

the blood of their sons and daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.

The land was polluted by bloodshed. ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “Put to.”

² tn Heb “face.”

³ tn Heb “set your face toward.”

⁴ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “the peoples of the lands.” So also in v. 2.

⁸ tn Heb “their deeds.”

⁹ tn Or “served.”

¹⁰ sn Became a snare. See Exod 23:33; Judg 2:3.

¹¹ tn The Hebrew term שֵׁדִים (shedim, “demons”) occurs only here and in Deut 32:17. Some type of lesser deity is probably in view.

¹² sn Num 35:33-34 explains that bloodshed defiles a land.