12:15 “Then they will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.
21:17 I too will clap my hands together,
I will exhaust my rage;
I the Lord have spoken.”
24:1 The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month 8 :
26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, 9 the word of the Lord came to me:
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, 11 the word of the Lord came to me:
30:3 For the day is near,
the day of the Lord is near;
it will be a day of storm clouds, 12
it will be a time of judgment 13 for the nations.
30:8 They will know that I am the Lord
when I ignite a fire in Egypt
and all her allies are defeated. 14
32:17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, 15 the word of the Lord came to me:
35:4 I will lay waste your cities;
and you will become desolate.
Then you will know that I am the Lord!
1 sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).
2 sn The phrase you will know that I am the
3 tn Heb “not in vain did I speak to do to them this catastrophe.” The wording of the last half of v. 10 parallels God’s declaration after the sin of the golden calf (Exod 32:14).
4 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
5 tn Heb “stood.”
6 tn Heb “all flesh.”
7 tc Several ancient versions read the verb as first person, in which case the Lord refers to how his people’s sin brings disgrace upon him. For a defense of the Hebrew text, see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:712, n. 68, and M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:457-58.
tn The phrase “within yourself” is the same as the several previous occurrences of “within you” but adjusted to fit this clause which is the culmination of the series of indictments.
8 tn The date of this oracle was January 15, 588
9 tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.
sn April 23, 587
10 sn That is, the towns located inland that were under Tyre’s rule.
11 tn January 7, 587
12 tn Heb “a day of clouds.” The expression occurs also in Joel 2:2 and Zeph 1:15; it recalls the appearance of God at Mount Sinai (Exod 19:9, 16, 18).
13 tn Heb “a time.” The words “of judgment” have been added in the translation for clarification (see the following verses).
14 tn Heb “all who aid her are broken.”
15 tn March 17, 585
16 sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.
17 tn See note on “wind” in 2:2.
18 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
19 sn In 1 Kgs 8:10-11 we find a similar event with regard to Solomon’s temple. See also Exod 40:34-35. and Isa 6:4.