Ezekiel 6:2

6:2 “Son of man, turn toward ¹  the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them:

Ezekiel 36:8

36:8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon. ² 

Ezekiel 38:21

38:21 I will call for a sword to attack ³  Gog ⁴  on all my mountains, declares the sovereign Lord; every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Ezekiel 39:2

39:2 I will turn you around and drag you along; ⁵  I will lead you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

¹ tn Heb “set your face against.” The expression occurs at the beginning of Ezekiel’s prophetic oracles in Ezek 13:17; 20:46; 21:2; 25:2; 28:21; 29:2; 35:2; 38:2.

² tn Heb “they draw near to arrive.”

³ tn Heb “against.”

⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gog, cf. v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT. An apparent cognate in the Ethiopic language means “walk along.” For a discussion of the research on this verb, see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:460.