Ezekiel 26:2
26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre 1 has said about Jerusalem, 2 ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, 3 now that she 4 has been destroyed,’
Ezekiel 30:21-22
30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm 5 of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 6 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, 7 I am against 8 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 44:7
44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate 9 it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You 10 have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
1 sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.
2 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
3 tn Heb “I will be filled.”
4 sn That is, Jerusalem.
5 sn The expression “breaking the arm” indicates the removal of power (Ps 10:15; 37:17; Job 38:15; Jer 48:25).
6 sn This may refer to the event recorded in Jer 37:5.
7 tn The word h!nn@h indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
8 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.
9 tn Heb “to desecrate.”
10 tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”