Ezekiel 32:5

32:5 I will put your flesh on the mountains,

and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass. ¹ 

Ezekiel 7:16

7:16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 32:6

32:6 I will drench the land with the flow

of your blood up to the mountains,

and the ravines will be full of your blood. ² 

Ezekiel 18:11

18:11 (though the father did not do any of them). ³  He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, ⁴  defiles his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 18:15

18:15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 22:9

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. ⁵  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; ⁶  they commit obscene acts among you. ⁷ 

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 18:6

18:6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains ⁸  or pray to the idols ⁹  of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not have sexual relations with a ¹⁰  woman during her period,

Ezekiel 31:12

31:12 Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land ¹¹  have departed ¹²  from its shade and left it.

Ezekiel 38:20

38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake ¹³  at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs ¹⁴  will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 6:13

6:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, ¹⁵  the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

[32:5]  ¹ tc The Hebrew text is difficult here, apparently meaning “your height.” Following Symmachus and the Syriac, it is preferable to emend the text to read “your maggots.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:203.

[32:6]  ² tn Heb “from you.”

[18:11]  ³ tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.

[18:11]  ⁴ sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.

[22:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

[22:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

[22:9]  ⁶ sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.

[18:6]  ⁵ tn Heb, “on the mountains he does not eat.” The mountains are often mentioned as the place where idolatrous sacrifices were eaten (Ezek 20:28; 22:9; 34:6).

[18:6]  ⁶ tn Heb, “does not lift up his eyes.” This refers to looking to idols for help.

[18:6]  ⁷ tn Heb, “does not draw near to.” “Draw near” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse (Lev 18:14; Deut 22:14; Isa 8:3).

[31:12]  ⁶ tn Or “earth” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[31:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “gone down.”

[38:20]  ⁷ tn Or “tremble.”

[38:20]  ⁸ tn The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14.

[6:13]  ⁸ sn By referring to every high hill…all the mountaintops…under every green tree and every leafy oak Ezekiel may be expanding on the phraseology of Deut 12:2 (see 1 Kgs 14:23; 2 Kgs 16:4; 17:10; Jer 2:20; 3:6, 13; 2 Chr 28:4).