Ezekiel 6:7

6:7 The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord. ¹ 

Ezekiel 11:6

11:6 You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.’

Ezekiel 28:8

28:8 They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently ²  in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 21:25

21:25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, ³ 

whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

Ezekiel 26:15

26:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

Ezekiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ⁴  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ⁵  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 30:4

30:4 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 30:11

30:11 He and his people with him,

the most terrifying of the nations, ⁶ 

will be brought there to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with corpses.

Ezekiel 30:24

30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 21:14

21:14 “And you, son of man, prophesy,

and clap your hands together.

Let the sword strike twice, even three times!

It is a sword for slaughter,

a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.

[6:7]  ¹ sn The phrase you will know that I am the Lord concludes over sixty oracles in the book of Ezekiel and indicates the ultimate goal of God’s action. The phrase is often used in the book of Exodus as well (Exod 7:5; 14:4, 18). By Ezekiel’s day the people had forgotten that the Lord (Yahweh) was their covenant God and had turned to other gods. They had to be reminded that Yahweh alone deserved to be worshiped because only he possessed the power to meet their needs. Through judgment and eventually deliverance, Israel would be reminded that Yahweh alone held their destiny in his hands.

[28:8]  ² tn Heb “you will die the death of the slain.”

[21:25]  ³ tn This probably refers to King Zedekiah.

[28:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

[30:11]  ⁵ tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).

[30:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.