Ezekiel 20:17

20:17 Yet I had pity on ¹  them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 25:15

A Prophecy Against Philistia

25:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The Philistines ²  have exacted merciless revenge, ³  showing intense scorn ⁴  in their effort to destroy Judah ⁵  with unrelenting hostility. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 26:4

26:4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil ⁷  from her and make her a bare rock.

Ezekiel 32:13

32:13 I will destroy all its cattle beside the plentiful waters;

and no human foot will disturb ⁸  the waters ⁹  again,

nor will the hooves of cattle disturb them.

Ezekiel 43:3

43:3 It was like the vision I saw when he ¹⁰  came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.

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¹ tn Heb “my eye pitied.”

² sn The Philistines inhabited the coastal plain by the Mediterranean Sea, west of Judah.

³ tn Heb “have acted with vengeance and taken vengeance with vengeance.” The repetition emphasizes the degree of vengeance which they exhibited, presumably toward Judah.

⁴ tn Heb “with scorn in (the) soul.”

⁵ tn The object is not specified in the Hebrew text, but has been clarified as “Judah” in the translation.

⁶ tn Heb “to destroy (with) perpetual hostility.” Joel 3:4-8 also speaks of the Philistines taking advantage of the fall of Judah.

⁷ tn Or “debris.”

⁸ tn Heb “muddy.”

⁹ tn Heb “them,” that is, the waters mentioned in the previous line. The translation clarifies the referent.

¹⁰ tc Heb “I.” The reading is due to the confusion of yod (י, indicating a first person pronoun) and vav (ו, indicating a third person pronoun). A few medieval Hebrew mss, Theodotion’s Greek version, and the Latin Vulgate support a third person pronoun here.