Ezekiel 17:18

17:18 He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Take note ¹  – he gave his promise ²  and did all these things – he will not escape!

Ezekiel 23:30

23:30 I will do these things to you ³  because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 24:19

24:19 Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”

Ezekiel 37:18

37:18 When your people ⁴  say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’

Ezekiel 11:2

11:2 The Lord ⁵  said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.

Ezekiel 16:30

16:30 “‘How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign Lord, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:59

16:59 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

Ezekiel 17:15

17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family ⁶  rebelled against the king of Babylon ⁷  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 18:11

18:11 (though the father did not do any of them). ⁸  He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, ⁹  defiles his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 36:20

36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’

Ezekiel 46:24

46:24 Then he said to me, “These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.”

Ezekiel 4:6

4:6 “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days ¹⁰  – I have assigned one day for each year.

Ezekiel 16:43

16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, ¹¹  declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?

Ezekiel 17:12

17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ¹²  ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ ¹³  Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem ¹⁴  and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

Ezekiel 43:18

43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, ¹⁵ 

Ezekiel 6:13

6:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, ¹⁶  the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something.

² sn Heb “hand.” “Giving one’s hand” is a gesture of promise (2 Kgs 10:15).

³ tn The infinitive absolute continues the sequence begun in v. 28: “Look here, I am about to deliver you.” See Joüon 2:430 §123.w.

⁵ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

⁷ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.

¹² sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.

¹³ sn The number 40 may refer in general to the period of Judah’s exile using the number of years Israel was punished in the wilderness. In this case, however, one would need to translate, “you will bear the punishment of the house of Judah.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”

¹⁷ tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.

¹⁸ sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.

¹⁹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁹ sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.

²¹ sn By referring to every high hill…all the mountaintops…under every green tree and every leafy oak Ezekiel may be expanding on the phraseology of Deut 12:2 (see 1 Kgs 14:23; 2 Kgs 16:4; 17:10; Jer 2:20; 3:6, 13; 2 Chr 28:4).