Ezekiel 3:15

3:15 I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, ¹  who lived by the Kebar River. ²  I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days. ³ 

Ezekiel 17:16

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ⁴  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

¹ sn The name “Tel Abib” is a transliteration of an Akkadian term meaning “mound of the flood,” i.e., an ancient mound. It is not to be confused with the modern city of Tel Aviv in Israel.

² tn Or “canal.”

³ sn A similar response to a divine encounter is found in Acts 9:8-9.

⁴ tn Heb “place.”