Ezekiel 6:2

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

Ezekiel 7:16

7:16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 11:23

11:23 The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped ²  over the mountain east of it.

Ezekiel 32:6

32:6 I will drench the land with the flow

of your blood up to the mountains,

and the ravines will be full of your blood. ³ 

Ezekiel 35:2

35:2 “Son of man, turn toward ⁴  Mount Seir, ⁵  and prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 35:7-8

35:7 I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; ⁶  I will cut off ⁷  from it the one who passes through or returns. 35:8 I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

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. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 38:21

38:21 I will call for a sword to attack ⁹  Gog ¹⁰  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; ¹¹  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 “stood.”

³ tn Heb “from you.”

⁴ tn Heb “set your face against.”

⁵ sn Mount Seir is to be identified with Edom (Ezek 35:15), home of Esau’s descendants (Gen 25:21-30).

⁵ tc The translation reads with some manuscripts לְשִׁמְמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה (lÿshimmah umÿshammah, “desolate ruin”) as in verse 3 and often in Ezekiel. The majority reading reverses the first mem (מ) with the shin (שׁ) resulting in the repetition of the word desolate: לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה (lÿshimmah ushÿmamah).

⁶ tn Or “kill.”

⁶ tn Heb “they draw near to arrive.”

⁷ tn Heb “against.”

⁸ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gog, cf. v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ 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.