Ezekiel 30:23
30:23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among foreign countries.
Ezekiel 6:8
6:8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. 1
Ezekiel 22:15
22:15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.
2
Ezekiel 36:19
36:19 I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.
Ezekiel 6:5
6:5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols,
3 and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezekiel 12:14-15
12:14 All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.
12:15 “Then they will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.
Ezekiel 30:26
30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the
Lord.”
Ezekiel 5:10
5:10 Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem,
4 and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors
5 to the winds.
6
Ezekiel 5:12
5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.
7 A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,
8 and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 20:23
20:23 I also swore
9 to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
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Ezekiel 5:2
5:2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 29:12
29:12 I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.
1 tn Heb “when you have fugitives from the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the lands.”
1 sn The ultimate purpose of divine judgment is to purify the covenant community of its sins.
1 tc This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a marginal explanatory note making its way into the text.
1 tn In context “you” refers to the city of Jerusalem. To make this clear for the modern reader, “Jerusalem” has been supplied in the translation in apposition to “you.”
2 tn Heb “all of your survivors.”
3 tn Heb “to every wind.”
1 sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.
2 sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.
1 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
2 sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.