Ezekiel 30:15

30:15 I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, ¹ 

the stronghold of Egypt;

I will cut off ²  the hordes of Thebes.

Ezekiel 35:7

35:7 I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; ³  I will cut off ⁴  from it the one who passes through or returns.

Ezekiel 14:17

14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.

Ezekiel 21:3

21:3 and say to them, ⁵  ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, ⁶  I am against you. ⁷  I will draw my sword ⁸  from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 25:16

25:16 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note, I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines. I will kill ¹⁰  the Cherethites ¹¹  and destroy those who remain on the seacoast.

Ezekiel 29:8

29:8 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill ¹²  every person and every animal.

Ezekiel 14:13

14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, ¹³  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

Ezekiel 25:13

25:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, ¹⁴  and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die ¹⁵  by the sword.

[30:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Sin” (so KJV, NASB), a city commonly identified with Pelusium, a fortress on Egypt’s northeastern frontier.

[30:15]  ² tn Or “kill.”

[35:7]  ³ tc The translation reads with some manuscripts לְשִׁמְמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה (lÿshimmah umÿshammah, “desolate ruin”) as in verse 3 and often in Ezekiel. The majority reading reverses the first mem (מ) with the shin (שׁ) resulting in the repetition of the word desolate: לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה (lÿshimmah ushÿmamah).

[35:7]  ⁴ tn Or “kill.”

[21:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “the land of Israel.”

[21:3]  ⁶ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.

[21:3]  ⁷ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

[21:3]  ⁸ sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.

[21:3]  ⁹ sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.

[25:16]  ⁷ tn In Hebrew the verb “and I will cut off” sounds like its object, “the Cherethites,” and draws attention to the statement.

[25:16]  ⁸ sn This is a name for the Philistines, many of whom migrated to Palestine from Crete.

[29:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “I will cut off from you.”

[14:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”

[25:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”

[25:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “fall.”