Ezekiel 16:48

16:48 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.

Ezekiel 22:24

22:24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that receives no rain ¹  or showers in the day of my anger.’ ² 

Ezekiel 23:44

23:44 They had sex with her ³  as one does with a prostitute. In this way they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, promiscuous women.

Ezekiel 24:7-8

24:7 For her blood was in it;

she poured it on an exposed rock;

she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,

I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

Ezekiel 26:6

26:6 and her daughters ⁴  who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 30:8

30:8 They will know that I am the Lord

when I ignite a fire in Egypt

and all her allies are defeated. ⁵ 

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¹ tc The MT reads “that is not cleansed”; the LXX reads “that is not drenched,” which assumes a different vowel pointing as well as the loss of a מ (mem) due to haplography. In light of the following reference to showers, the reading of the LXX certainly fits the context well. For a defense of the emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:32. Yet the MT is not an unreasonable reading since uncleanness in the land also fits the context, and a poetic connection between rain and the land being uncleansed may be feasible since washing with water is elsewhere associated with cleansing (Num 8:7; 31:23; Ps 51:7).

² tn Heb “in a day of anger.”

³ tn Heb “and they came to her.”

⁴ sn That is, the towns located inland that were under Tyre’s rule.

⁵ tn Heb “all who aid her are broken.”