Ezekiel 22:20
22:20 As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there 1 and melt you.
Ezekiel 38:12
38:12 to loot and plunder, to attack 2 the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center 3 of the earth.”
Ezekiel 39:27-28
39:27 When I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will magnify myself among them in the sight of many nations.
39:28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will not leave any of them in exile 4 any longer.
1 tn Heb “I will put.” No object is supplied in the Hebrew, prompting many to emend the text to “I will blow.” See BHS and verse 21.
2 tn Heb “to turn your hand against.”
3 tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”
4 tn Heb “there,” referring to the foreign nations to which they were exiled. The translation makes the referent clear.