Ezekiel 20:23

20:23 I also swore ¹  to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. ² 

Ezekiel 20:34

20:34 I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!

Ezekiel 29:13

29:13 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years ³  I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.

Ezekiel 34:6

34:6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

Ezekiel 34:21

34:21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad, ⁴ 

Ezekiel 46:18

46:18 The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

[20:23]  ¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:23]  ² sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.

[29:13]  ³ sn In Ezek 4:4-8 it was said that the house of Judah would suffer forty years.

[34:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “outside.”