Ezekiel 16:51

16:51 Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did. ¹  You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done.

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 27:11

27:11 The Arvadites ⁵  joined your army on your walls all around,

and the Gammadites ⁶  were in your towers.

They hung their quivers ⁷  on your walls all around;

they perfected your beauty.

Ezekiel 28:26

28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely ⁸  when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”

Ezekiel 29:4

29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws

and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales.

I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways,

and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

Ezekiel 35:12

35:12 Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”

Ezekiel 37:16

37:16 “As for you, son of man, take one branch, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another branch and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the branch of Ephraim and all the house of Israel associated with him.’

Ezekiel 44:24

44:24 “‘In a controversy they will act as judges; ⁹  they will judge according to my ordinances. They will keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals and will observe ¹⁰  my Sabbaths.

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¹ tn Or “you have multiplied your abominable deeds beyond them.”

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 Heb “sons of Arvad.”

⁶ sn The identity of the Gammadites is uncertain.

⁷ tn See note on “quivers” in Jer 51:11 on the meaning of Hebrew שֶׁלֶט (shelet) and also M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:553.

⁸ sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.

⁹ sn For a historical illustration of the priest carrying out this function, see 2 Chr 19:9-11.

¹⁰ tn Heb “sanctify, set apart.”