Ezekiel 16:45

16:45 You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Ezekiel 16:55

16:55 As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status, Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status, and you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.

Ezekiel 22:2

22:2 “As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment, ¹  are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? ²  Then confront her with all her abominable deeds!

Ezekiel 22:25

22:25 Her princes ³  within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows ⁴  within it.

Ezekiel 30:6

30:6 “‘This is what the Lord says:

Egypt’s supporters will fall;

her confident pride will crumble. ⁵ 

From Migdol to Syene ⁶  they will die by the sword within her,

declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 32:23

32:23 Their ⁷  graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. ⁸  Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:26

32:26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. ⁹  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:29

32:29 “Edom is there with her kings and all her princes. Despite their might they are laid with those killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and those who descend to the pit.

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¹ 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.

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

³ tn Heb “a conspiracy of her prophets is in her midst.” The LXX reads “whose princes” rather than “a conspiracy of prophets.” The prophets are mentioned later in the paragraph (v. 28). If one follows the LXX in verse 25, then five distinct groups are mentioned in vv. 25-29: princes, priests, officials, prophets, and the people of the land. For a defense of the Septuagintal reading, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:32, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:720, n. 4.

⁴ tn Heb “her widows they have multiplied.” The statement alludes to their murderous acts.

⁵ tn Heb “come down.”

⁶ sn Syene is known as Aswan today.

⁷ tn Heb “whose.”

⁸ tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.

⁹ tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).