Ezekiel 3:23
Context3:23 So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, 1 and I threw myself face down.
Ezekiel 5:12
Context5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. 2 A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, 3 and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 6:12
Context6:12 The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these 4 will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.
Ezekiel 11:5
Context11:5 Then the Spirit of the Lord came 5 upon me and said to me, “Say: This is what the Lord says: ‘This is what you are thinking, 6 O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds. 7
Ezekiel 13:14
Context13:14 I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, 8 and you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 17:21
Context17:21 All the choice men 9 among his troops will die 10 by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 28:23
Context28:23 I will send a plague into the city 11 and bloodshed into its streets;
the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it 12 from every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 30:4
Context30:4 A sword will come against Egypt
and panic will overtake Ethiopia
when the slain fall in Egypt
and they carry away her wealth
and dismantle her foundations.
Ezekiel 32:12
Context32:12 By the swords of the mighty warriors I will cause your hordes to fall –
all of them are the most terrifying among the nations.
They will devastate the pride of Egypt,
and all its hordes will be destroyed.
Ezekiel 32:23
Context32:23 Their 13 graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. 14 Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 39:4
Context39:4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.
Ezekiel 44:4
Context44:4 Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed 15 the glory of the Lord filling the Lord’s temple, and I threw myself face down.
Ezekiel 47:14
Context47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; 16 this land will be assigned as your inheritance. 17


[5:12] 2 sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.
[5:12] 3 sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.
[6:12] 3 tn Heb “the one who is left, the one who is spared.”
[11:5] 5 tn The Hebrew verb commonly means “to say,” but may also mean “to think” (see also v. 3).
[11:5] 6 tn Heb “I know the steps of your spirits.”
[13:14] 5 tn Or “within it,” referring to the city of Jerusalem.
[17:21] 6 tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhyv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharyv).
[28:23] 7 tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[28:23] 8 tn Heb “by a sword against it.”
[32:23] 9 tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.
[44:4] 9 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
[47:14] 10 sn Gen 15:9-21.