Ezekiel 19:10

19:10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, ¹  planted by water.

It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty ²  you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They ³  will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

Jeremiah 52:27-31

52:27 The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed ⁴  at Riblah in the territory of Hamath.

So Judah was taken into exile away from its land. 52:28 Here is the official record of the number of people ⁵  Nebuchadnezzar carried into exile: In the seventh year, ⁶  3,023 Jews; 52:29 in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, ⁷  832 people from Jerusalem; 52:30 in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, ⁸  Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, carried into exile 745 Judeans. In all 4,600 people went into exile.

Jehoiachin in Exile

52:31 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, on the twenty-fifth ⁹  day of the twelfth month, ¹⁰  Evil-Merodach, in the first year of his reign, pardoned ¹¹  King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

[19:10]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text reads “in your blood,” but most emend to “in your vineyard,” assuming a ב-כ (beth-kaph) confusion. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. Another attractive emendation assumes a faulty word division and yields the reading “like a vine full of tendrils, which/because…”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:607, n. 68.

[28:48]  ² tn Heb “lack of everything.”

[28:48]  ³ tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).

[52:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

[52:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “these are the people.”

[52:28]  ⁶ sn This would be 597 b.c.

[52:29]  ⁷ sn This would be 586 b.c.

[52:30]  ⁸ sn This would be 581 b.c.

[52:31]  ⁹ sn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 25:28 has “twenty-seventh.”

[52:31]  ¹⁰ sn The twenty-fifth day would be March 20, 561 b.c. in modern reckoning.

[52:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “lifted up the head of.”