Ezekiel 5:16

5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, ¹  destructive ²  arrows of famine, ³  which I will shoot to destroy you. ⁴  I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 17:12

17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ⁶  ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ ⁷  Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem ⁸  and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

Ezekiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ⁹  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 23:23

23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, ¹⁰  Shoa, ¹¹  and Koa, ¹²  and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, all of them governors and officials, officers and nobles, all of them riding on horses.

Ezekiel 34:2

34:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds ¹³  of Israel; prophesy, and say to them – to the shepherds: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?

Ezekiel 34:10

34:10 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; ¹⁴  the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.

Ezekiel 37:19

37:19 tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah, ¹⁵  and make them into one stick – they will be one in my hand.’ ¹⁶ 

Ezekiel 37:21

37:21 Then tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.

Ezekiel 37:23

37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness ¹⁷  by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

Ezekiel 44:12

44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle ¹⁸  to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow ¹⁹  concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible ²⁰  for their sin.

Ezekiel 44:19

44:19 When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. ²¹ 

¹ tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).

² tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”

³ tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.

⁴ tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).

⁵ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

⁶ tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.

⁷ sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.

⁸ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

¹⁶ sn Pekod was the name of an Aramean tribe (known as Puqudu in Mesopotamian texts) that lived in the region of the Tigris River.

¹⁷ sn Shoa was the name of a nomadic people (the Sutu) that lived in Mesopotamia.

¹⁸ sn Koa was the name of another Mesopotamian people group (the Qutu).

²¹ tn The term shepherd is applied to kings in the ancient Near East. In the OT the Lord is often addressed as shepherd of Israel (Gen 49:24; Ps 8:1). The imagery of shepherds as Israel’s leaders is also employed (Jer 23:1-2).

²⁶ tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”

³¹ tn Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”

³² sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.

³⁶ tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.

⁴¹ tn Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30).

⁴² tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

⁴³ tn Heb “will bear.”

⁴⁶ sn For a similar concept of the transmitting of holiness, see Exod 19:12-14; Lev 10:1-2; 2 Sam 6:7. Similar laws concerning the priest are found in Lev 10 and 21.