Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 12:7

12:7 So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage ³  on my shoulder while they watched.

Ezekiel 12:12

12:12 “The prince ⁴  who is among them will raise his belongings ⁵  onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He ⁶  will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

Ezekiel 21:22

21:22 Into his right hand ⁷  comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal ⁸  for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, ⁹  to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

Ezekiel 38:20

38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake ¹⁰  at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs ¹¹  will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

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¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

³ tn The words “my baggage” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied from the context.

⁴ sn The prince is a reference to Zedekiah.

⁵ tn The words “his belongings” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.

⁶ tc The MT reads “they”; the LXX and Syriac read “he.”

⁷ tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.

⁸ tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.

⁹ tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”

¹⁰ tn Or “tremble.”

¹¹ tn The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14.