Ezekiel 9:7

9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

Ezekiel 11:7

11:7 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped ¹  in the midst of the city ²  are the meat, and this city ³  is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 21:25

21:25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, ⁵ 

whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

Ezekiel 26:15

26:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

Ezekiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ⁶  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ⁷  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 30:4

30:4 A sword will come against Egypt

and panic will overtake Ethiopia

when the slain fall in Egypt

and they carry away her wealth

and dismantle her foundations.

Ezekiel 30:11

30:11 He and his people with him,

the most terrifying of the nations, ⁸ 

will be brought there to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with corpses.

Ezekiel 30:24

30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 31:17

31:17 Those who lived in its shade, its allies ¹⁰  among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:21

32:21 The bravest of the warriors will speak to him from the midst of Sheol along with his allies, saying: ‘The uncircumcised have come down; they lie still, killed by the sword.’

Ezekiel 32:23

32:23 Their ¹¹  graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. ¹²  Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:29

32:29 “Edom is there with her kings and all her princes. Despite their might they are laid with those killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and those who descend to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:31

32:31 “Pharaoh will see them and be consoled over all his hordes who were killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, declares the sovereign Lord.

¹ tn Heb “placed.”

² tn Heb “in its midst.”

³ tn Heb “she/it.” See v. 3.

⁴ tc Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).

¹ tn This probably refers to King Zedekiah.

¹ tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

¹ tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).

¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “its arm.”

¹ tn Heb “whose.”

² tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.