Ezekiel 12:23

12:23 Therefore tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: I hereby end this proverb; they will not recite it in Israel any longer.’ But say to them, ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled. ¹ 

Ezekiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ²  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ³  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ⁴  the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:26

20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices ⁵  – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire ⁶  – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ ⁷ 

Ezekiel 21:23

21:23 But those in Jerusalem ⁸  will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, ⁹  but the king of Babylon ¹⁰  will accuse them of violations ¹¹  in order to seize them. ¹² 

Ezekiel 22:29

22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice. ¹³ 

Ezekiel 23:7

23:7 She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired ¹⁴  – with all their idols.

Ezekiel 37:22

37:22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over them all. They will never again be two nations and never again be divided into two kingdoms. ¹⁵ 

Ezekiel 38:4

38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, ¹⁶  all of them armed with swords.

Ezekiel 43:8

43:8 When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.

Ezekiel 44:12

44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle ¹⁷  to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow ¹⁸  concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible ¹⁹  for their sin.

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¹ tn Heb “the days draw near and the word of every vision (draws near).”

² tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

³ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

⁴ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

⁵ tn Or “gifts.”

⁶ sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).

⁷ sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.

⁸ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people in Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ sn When the people of Judah realized the Babylonians’ intentions, they would object on grounds that they had made a treaty with the Babylonian king (see 17:13).

¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ tn Or “iniquity.”

¹² tn Heb “and he will remind of guilt for the purpose of being captured.” The king would counter their objections by pointing out that they had violated their treaty with him (see 17:18).

¹³ tn Heb “and the foreigner they have oppressed without justice.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “lusted after.”

¹⁵ sn Jeremiah also attested to the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms (Jer 3:12, 14; 31:2-6).

¹⁶ sn The Hebrew text mentions two different types of shields here.

¹⁷ 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).

¹⁸ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “will bear.”