Ezekiel 6:4

6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. ¹ 

Ezekiel 6:7

6:7 The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord. ² 

Ezekiel 28:8

28:8 They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently ³  in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 32:28

32:28 “But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:25

32:25 Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave. ⁴  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the pit; they are placed among the dead.

¹ tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.

² sn The phrase you will know that I am the Lord concludes over sixty oracles in the book of Ezekiel and indicates the ultimate goal of God’s action. The phrase is often used in the book of Exodus as well (Exod 7:5; 14:4, 18). By Ezekiel’s day the people had forgotten that the Lord (Yahweh) was their covenant God and had turned to other gods. They had to be reminded that Yahweh alone deserved to be worshiped because only he possessed the power to meet their needs. Through judgment and eventually deliverance, Israel would be reminded that Yahweh alone held their destiny in his hands.

³ tn Heb “you will die the death of the slain.”

⁴ tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).