7:16 Then the Lord said, 1 “As for you, Jeremiah, 2 do not pray for these people! Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf! Do not plead with me to save them, 3 because I will not listen to you.
14:11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray for good to come to these people! 7
14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem 9 to kill both people and animals!
1 tn The words “Then the
2 tn Heb “As for you.” The personal name Jeremiah is supplied in the translation for clarity.
3 tn The words “to save them” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “you.”
5 tn The words “to save them” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.
6 tc The rendering “when disaster strikes them” is based on reading “at the time of” (בְּעֵת, bÿ’et) with a number of Hebrew
7 tn Heb “on behalf of these people for benefit.”
8 sn Traditionally this has been understood as a reference to the biblical Daniel, though he was still quite young when Ezekiel prophesied. One wonders if he had developed a reputation as an intercessor by this point. For this reason some prefer to see a reference to a ruler named Danel, known in Canaanite legend for his justice and wisdom. In this case all three of the individuals named would be non-Israelites, however the Ugaritic Danel is not known to have qualities of faith in the Lord that would place him in the company of the other men. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:447-50.
9 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.