Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 11:15

11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, ³  your relatives, ⁴  and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem ⁵  have said, ‘They have gone ⁶  far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

Ezekiel 18:20

18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer ⁷  for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer ⁸  for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ¹⁰  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ¹¹  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ¹²  the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ¹³  to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 21:14

21:14 “And you, son of man, prophesy,

and clap your hands together.

Let the sword strike twice, even three times!

It is a sword for slaughter,

a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.

Ezekiel 26:17

26:17 They will sing this lament over you: ¹⁴ 

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished ¹⁵  from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! ¹⁶ 

Ezekiel 39:11

39:11 “‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog. ¹⁷ 

¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

³ tc The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.

⁴ tc The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ (gÿ’ullatekha, “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ (galutekha) or having read the א (aleph) as an internal mater lectionis for holem.

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⁶ tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).

⁵ tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

⁶ tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

⁷ tn Heb “the righteousness of the righteous one will be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked one will be upon him.”

⁷ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

⁸ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

⁹ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

⁹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

¹² tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

¹³ tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”

¹³ tn The name means “horde of Gog.”