Ezekiel 5:16
Context5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, 1 destructive 2 arrows of famine, 3 which I will shoot to destroy you. 4 I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. 5
Ezekiel 17:12
Context17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: 6 ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ 7 Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem 8 and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.
Ezekiel 20:15
Context20:15 I also swore 9 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 23:23
Context23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, 10 Shoa, 11 and Koa, 12 and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, all of them governors and officials, officers and nobles, all of them riding on horses.
Ezekiel 34:2
Context34:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds 13 of Israel; prophesy, and say to them – to the shepherds: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?
Ezekiel 34:10
Context34:10 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; 14 the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.
Ezekiel 37:19
Context37:19 tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah, 15 and make them into one stick – they will be one in my hand.’ 16
Ezekiel 37:21
Context37:21 Then tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.
Ezekiel 37:23
Context37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness 17 by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.
Ezekiel 44:12
Context44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle 18 to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow 19 concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible 20 for their sin.
Ezekiel 44:19
Context44:19 When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. 21


[5:16] 1 tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).
[5:16] 2 tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”
[5:16] 3 tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.
[5:16] 4 tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).
[5:16] 5 tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.
[17:12] 6 tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.
[17:12] 7 sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.
[17:12] 8 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[20:15] 11 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
[23:23] 16 sn Pekod was the name of an Aramean tribe (known as Puqudu in Mesopotamian texts) that lived in the region of the Tigris River.
[23:23] 17 sn Shoa was the name of a nomadic people (the Sutu) that lived in Mesopotamia.
[23:23] 18 sn Koa was the name of another Mesopotamian people group (the Qutu).
[34:2] 21 tn The term shepherd is applied to kings in the ancient Near East. In the OT the
[34:10] 26 tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”
[37:19] 31 tn Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”
[37:19] 32 sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.
[37:23] 36 tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.
[44:12] 41 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] 42 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
[44:12] 43 tn Heb “will bear.”
[44:19] 46 sn For a similar concept of the transmitting of holiness, see Exod 19:12-14; Lev 10:1-2; 2 Sam 6:7. Similar laws concerning the priest are found in Lev 10 and 21.