Ezekiel 7:23

7:23 (Make the chain, ¹  because the land is full of murder ²  and the city is full of violence.)

Ezekiel 9:1

The Execution of Idolaters

9:1 Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, ³  you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”

Ezekiel 12:20

12:20 The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 17:4

17:4 He plucked off its topmost shoot;

he brought it to a land of merchants

and planted it in a city of traders.

Ezekiel 19:7

19:7 He broke down ⁴  their strongholds ⁵  and devastated their cities.

The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

Ezekiel 22:2

22:2 “As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment, ⁶  are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? ⁷  Then confront her with all her abominable deeds!

Ezekiel 24:9

24:9 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed!

I will also make the pile high.

Ezekiel 35:4

35:4 I will lay waste your cities;

and you will become desolate.

Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Ezekiel 35:9

35:9 I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:10

36:10 I will multiply your people ⁸  – the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.

Ezekiel 48:30

48:30 “These are the exits of the city: On the north side, one and one-half miles ⁹  by measure,

Ezekiel 48:35

48:35 The circumference of the city will be six miles. ¹⁰  The name of the city from that day forward will be: ‘The Lord Is There.’” ¹¹ 

[7:23]  ¹ tc The Hebrew word “the chain” occurs only here in the OT. The reading of the LXX (“and they will make carnage”) seems to imply a Hebrew text of ַהבַּתּוֹק (habbattoq, “disorder, slaughter”) instead of הָרַתּוֹק (haratoq, “the chain”). The LXX is also translating the verb as a third person plural future and taking this as the end of the preceding verse. As M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:154) notes, this may refer to a chain for a train of exiles but “the context does not speak of exile but of the city’s fall. The versions guess desperately and we can do little better.”

[7:23]  ² tn Heb “judgment for blood,” i.e., indictment or accountability for bloodshed. The word for “judgment” does not appear in the similar phrase in 9:9.

[9:1]  ³ tc Heb “they approached.” Reading the imperative assumes the same consonantal text but different vowels.

[19:7]  ⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads “knew,” but is apparently the result of a ר-ד (dalet-resh) confusion. For a defense of the emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. However, Allen retains the reading “widows” as the object of the verb, which he understands in the sense of “do harm to,” and translates the line: “He did harm to women by making them widows” (p. 282). The line also appears to be lacking a beat for the meter of the poem.

[19:7]  ⁶ tc The Hebrew text reads “widows” instead of “strongholds,” apparently due to a confusion of ר (resh) and ל (lamed). L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:284) favors the traditional text, understanding “widows” in the sense of “women made widows.” D. I. Block, (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:602) also defends the Hebrew text, arguing that the image is that of a dominant male lion who takes over the pride and by copulating with the females lays claim to his predecessor’s “widows.”

[22:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “will you judge.” Here the imperfect form of the verb is probably used with a desiderative nuance. Addressed to the prophet, “judge” means to warn of or pronounce God’s impending judgment upon the city. See 20:4.

[22:2]  ⁸ tn The phrase “bloody city” is used of Nineveh in Nah 3:1.

[36:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “I will multiply on you human(s).”

[48:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “four thousand five hundred cubits” (i.e., 2.36 kilometers); the phrase occurs again in vv. 32-34.

[48:35]  ¹³ tn Heb “eighteen thousand cubits” (i.e., 9.45 kilometers).

[48:35]  ¹⁴ sn See Rev 21:12-21.