Ezekiel 3:19

3:19 But as for you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wicked deed and from his wicked lifestyle, he will die for his iniquity but you will have saved your own life. ¹ 

Ezekiel 5:10

5:10 Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, ²  and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors ³  to the winds. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 5:16

5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, ⁵  destructive ⁶  arrows of famine, ⁷  which I will shoot to destroy you. ⁸  I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 7:7

7:7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day ¹⁰  is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains. ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 29:2

29:2 “Son of man, turn toward ¹²  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

Ezekiel 38:2

38:2 “Son of man, turn toward ¹³  Gog, ¹⁴  of the land of Magog, ¹⁵  the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. ¹⁶  Prophesy against him

Ezekiel 45:12

45:12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels ¹⁷  will be a mina for you.

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¹ tn Verses 17-19 are repeated in Ezek 33:7-9.

² tn In context “you” refers to the city of Jerusalem. To make this clear for the modern reader, “Jerusalem” has been supplied in the translation in apposition to “you.”

sn This cannibalism would occur as a result of starvation due to the city being besieged. It is one of the judgments threatened for a covenant law violation (Lev 26:29; see also Deut 28:53; Jer 19:9; Lam 2:20; Zech 11:9).

³ tn Heb “all of your survivors.”

⁴ tn Heb “to every wind.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).

⁶ tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”

⁷ tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.

⁸ tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).

⁹ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

¹⁰ sn The day refers to the day of the Lord, a concept which, beginning in Amos 5:18-20, became a common theme in the OT prophetic books. It refers to a time when the Lord intervenes in human affairs as warrior and judge.

¹¹ tc The LXX reads “neither tumult nor birth pains.” The LXX varies at many points from the MT in this chapter. The context suggests that one or both of these would be present on a day of judgment, thus favoring the MT. Perhaps more significant is the absence of “the mountains” in the LXX. If the ר (resh) in הָרִים (harim, “the mountains” not “on the mountains”) were a ד (dalet), which is a common letter confusion, then it could be from the same root as the previous word, הֵד (hed), meaning “the day is near – with destruction, not joyful shouting.”

¹² tn Heb “set your face against.”

¹³ tn Heb “set your face against.”

¹⁴ sn This may refer to a Lydian king in western Asia Minor in the seventh century b.c. Apart from Ezek 38-39, the only other biblical reference to this king/nation is in Rev 20:8. For a study of the names appearing in this verse, see E. Yamauchi, Foes From the Northern Frontier, 19-27.

¹⁵ sn One of the sons of Japheth according to Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5.

¹⁶ tn Heb “the prince, the chief of Meshech and Tubal.” Some translate “the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal,” but it is more likely that the Hebrew noun in question is a common noun in apposition to “prince,” rather than a proper name. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:434-35. As Block demonstrates, attempts by some popular writers to identify these proper names with later geographical sites in Russia are anachronistic. See as well E. Yamauchi, Foes From the Northern Frontier, 19-27.

sn Meshech and Tubal were two nations in Cappadocia of Asia Minor. They were also sons of Japheth (Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5).

¹⁷ tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”