Ezekiel 5:4
Context5:4 Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, 1 and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 11:20
Context11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. 2
Ezekiel 18:2
Context18:2 “What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
“‘The fathers eat sour grapes
And the children’s teeth become numb?’ 3
Ezekiel 20:23
Context20:23 I also swore 4 to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. 5
Ezekiel 20:29
Context20:29 So I said to them, What is this high place you go to?’” (So it is called “High Place” 6 to this day.)
Ezekiel 20:32
Context20:32 “‘What you plan 7 will never happen. You say, “We will be 8 like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.” 9
Ezekiel 29:14
Context29:14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back 10 to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.
Ezekiel 33:7
Context33:7 “As for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman 11 for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must warn them on my behalf.
Ezekiel 34:23
Context34:23 I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them – namely, my servant David. 12 He will feed them and will be their shepherd.
Ezekiel 34:30
Context34:30 Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, 13 and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. 14
Ezekiel 36:37
Context36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: 15 I will multiply their people like sheep. 16
Ezekiel 39:27-28
Context39:27 When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will magnify myself among them in the sight of many nations. 39:28 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 17 any longer.


[5:4] 1 tn Heb “into the midst of” (so KJV, ASV). This phrase has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.
[11:20] 2 sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).
[18:2] 3 tn This word only occurs here and in the parallel passage in Jer 31:29-30 in the Qal stem and in Eccl 10:10 in the Piel stem. In the latter passage it refers to the bluntness of an ax that has not been sharpened. Here the idea is of the “bluntness” of the teeth, not from having ground them down due to the bitter taste of sour grapes but to the fact that they have lost their “edge,” “bite,” or “sharpness” because they are numb from the sour taste. For this meaning for the word, see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 2:197.
[20:23] 4 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
[20:23] 5 sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.
[20:29] 5 tn The Hebrew word (“Bamah”) means “high place.”
[20:32] 6 tn Heb “what comes upon your mind.”
[20:32] 7 tn The Hebrew could also read: “Let us be.”
[20:32] 8 tn Heb “serving wood and stone.”
[29:14] 7 tc Thus the Masoretic Text. The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as though the Hebrew read “cause to inhabit.”
[33:7] 8 sn Jeremiah (Jer 6:17) and Habakkuk (Hab 2:1) also served in the role of a watchman.
[34:23] 9 sn The messianic king is here called “David” (see Jer 30:9 and Hos 3:5, as well as Isa 11:1 and Mic 5:2) because he will fulfill the Davidic royal ideal depicted in the prophets and royal psalms (see Ps 2, 89).
[34:30] 10 sn A promise given to Abraham (Gen 15:7) and his descendants (Gen 15:8; Exod 6:7).
[34:30] 11 sn The blessings described in vv. 25-30 are those promised for obedience in Lev 26:4-13.
[36:37] 11 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] 12 sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”
[39:28] 12 tn Heb “there,” referring to the foreign nations to which they were exiled. The translation makes the referent clear.