Ezekiel 17:16

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ¹  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Ezekiel 19:9

19:9 They put him in a collar with hooks; ² 

they brought him to the king of Babylon;

they brought him to prison ³ 

so that his voice would not be heard

any longer on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:33

20:33 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, ⁴  and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.

Ezekiel 21:21

21:21 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork ⁵  in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: ⁶  He shakes arrows, he consults idols, ⁷  he examines ⁸  animal livers. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 21:23

21:23 But those in Jerusalem ¹⁰  will view it as a false omen. They have sworn solemn oaths, ¹¹  but the king of Babylon ¹²  will accuse them of violations ¹³  in order to seize them. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 28:12

28:12 “Son of man, sing ¹⁵  a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘You were the sealer ¹⁶  of perfection,

full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 30:21-22

30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm ¹⁷  of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ¹⁸  Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword. 30:22 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, ¹⁹  I am against ²⁰  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.

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. ²¹ 

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¹ tn Heb “place.”

² tn Or “They put him in a neck stock with hooks.” The noun סּוּגַר (sugar), translated “collar,” occurs only here in the Bible. L. C. Allen and D. I. Block point out a Babylonian cognate that refers to a device for transporting prisoners of war that held them by their necks (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:597, n. 35; L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:284). Based on the Hebrew root, the traditional rendering had been “cage” (cf. ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

³ tc The term in the MT occurs only here and in Eccl 9:12 where it refers to a net for catching fish. The LXX translates this as “prison,” which assumes a confusion of dalet and resh took place in the MT.

⁴ sn This phrase occurs frequently in Deuteronomy (Deut 4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 11:2; 26:8).

⁵ tn Heb “mother.”

⁶ sn Mesopotamian kings believed that the gods revealed the future through omens. They employed various divination techniques, some of which are included in the list that follows. A particularly popular technique was the examination and interpretation of the livers of animals. See R. R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel, 90-110.

⁷ tn This word refers to personal idols that were apparently used for divination purposes (Gen 31:19; 1 Sam 19:13, 16).

⁸ tn Heb “sees.”

⁹ tn Heb “the liver.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people in Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹¹ 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).

¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Or “iniquity.”

¹⁴ 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).

¹⁵ tn Heb “lift up.”

¹⁶ tn For a discussion of possible nuances of this phrase, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:580-81.

¹⁷ sn The expression “breaking the arm” indicates the removal of power (Ps 10:15; 37:17; Job 38:15; Jer 48:25).

¹⁸ sn This may refer to the event recorded in Jer 37:5.

¹⁹ tn The word h!nn@h indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

²⁰ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

²¹ sn Jeremiah also attested to the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms (Jer 3:12, 14; 31:2-6).