Ezekiel 28:23
Context28:23 I will send a plague into the city 1 and bloodshed into its streets;
the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it 2 from every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 28:26
Context28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely 3 when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”
Ezekiel 36:36-38
Context36:36 Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken – and I will do it!’
36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: 4 I will multiply their people like sheep. 5 36:38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem 6 during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 39:28
Context39:28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will not leave any of them in exile 7 any longer.
[28:23] 1 tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[28:23] 2 tn Heb “by a sword against it.”
[28:26] 3 sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.
[36:37] 4 tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”
[36:37] 5 sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”
[36:38] 6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[39:28] 7 tn Heb “there,” referring to the foreign nations to which they were exiled. The translation makes the referent clear.