Ezekiel 17:22
17:22 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘I will take a sprig 1 from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it. 2
I will pluck from the top one of its tender twigs;
I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Ezekiel 29:3
29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Look, I am against 3 you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster 4 lying in the midst of its waterways,
who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” 5
Ezekiel 31:16
31:16 I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. 6 Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.
Ezekiel 34:27
34:27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
Ezekiel 36:5
36:5 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’
Ezekiel 38:8
38:8 After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, 7 with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people 8 were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.
Ezekiel 38:13
38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors 9 will say to you, “Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?”’
Ezekiel 44:5
44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, 10 watch closely and listen carefully to 11 everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances 12 to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 48:16
48:16 these will be its measurements: The north side will be one and one-half miles, 13 the south side one and one-half miles, the east side one and one-half miles, and the west side one and one-half miles.
Ezekiel 48:18
48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles 14 to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.
1 sn The language is analogous to messianic imagery in Isa 11:1; Zech 3:8; 6:4 although the technical terminology is not the same.
2 tc The LXX lacks “and plant it.”
3 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.
4 tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew mss read correctly “the serpent.” The Hebrew term appears to refer to a serpent in Exod 7:9-10, 12; Deut 32:33; and Ps 91:13. It also refers to large creatures that inhabit the sea (Gen 1:21; Ps 148:7). In several passages it is associated with the sea or with the multiheaded sea monster Leviathan (Job 7:12; Ps 74:13; Isa 27:1; 51:9). Because of the Egyptian setting of this prophecy and the reference to the creature’s scales (v. 4), many understand a crocodile to be the referent here (e.g., NCV “a great crocodile”; TEV “you monster crocodile”; CEV “a giant crocodile”).
5 sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.
6 sn For the expression “going down to the pit,” see Ezek 26:20; 32:18, 24, 29.
7 tn Heb “from the sword.”
8 tn Heb “it.”
9 tn Heb “young lions.”
10 tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).
11 tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”
12 tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.
13 tn Heb “four thousand five hundred cubits” (i.e., 2.36 kilometers); the phrase occurs three more times in this verse.
14 tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.