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 20:42

20:42 Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore ³  to give to your fathers.

Ezekiel 36:7

36:7 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow ⁴  that the nations around you will endure insults as well.

Ezekiel 47:14

47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; ⁵  this land will be assigned as your inheritance. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 12:7

12:7 So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage ⁷  on my shoulder while they watched.

Ezekiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ⁸  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ⁹  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ¹⁰  the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ¹¹  to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 44:12

44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle ¹²  to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow ¹³  concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible ¹⁴  for their sin.

Ezekiel 20:28

20:28 I brought them to the land which I swore ¹⁵  to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.

[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.

[20:42]  ³ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[36:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[47:14]  ⁷ sn Gen 15:9-21.

[47:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”

[12:7]  ⁹ tn The words “my baggage” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied from the context.

[20:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

[20:6]  ¹² tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

[20:6]  ¹³ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

[20:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[44:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30).

[44:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[44:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “will bear.”

[20:28]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “which I lifted up my hand.”