Ezekiel 30:5

30:5 Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, ¹  Libya, and the people ²  of the covenant land ³  will die by the sword along with them.

Ezekiel 31:5

31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,

because of the plentiful water in its shoots. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 32:23

32:23 Their ⁵  graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. ⁶  Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 38:21

38:21 I will call for a sword to attack ⁷  Gog ⁸  on all my mountains, declares the sovereign Lord; every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Ezekiel 39:4

39:4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.

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¹ tn The same expression appears in Exod 12:38; Jer 25:20; 50:37; Neh 13:3. It may refer to foreign mercenaries serving in the armies of the nations listed here.

² tn Heb “sons.”

³ tn The expression “sons of the covenant land” possibly refers to Jews living in Egypt (Jer 44).

⁴ tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).

⁵ tn Heb “whose.”

⁶ tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.

⁷ tn Heb “against.”

⁸ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gog, cf. v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.