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 6:13

6:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, 3  the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

Ezekiel 32:27

32:27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, 4  who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, 5  when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

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

2 tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

3 sn By referring to every high hill…all the mountaintops…under every green tree and every leafy oak Ezekiel may be expanding on the phraseology of Deut 12:2 (see 1 Kgs 14:23; 2 Kgs 16:4; 17:10; Jer 2:20; 3:6, 13; 2 Chr 28:4).

4 tc Heb “of the uncircumcised.” The LXX reads, probably correctly, “from of old” rather than “of the uncircumcised.” The phrases are very similar in spelling. The warriors of Meshech-Tubal are described as uncircumcised, so it would be odd for them to not be buried with the uncircumcised. Verse 28 specifically says that they would lie with the uncircumcised.

5 tn Heb “and their iniquities were over their bones.” The meaning of this statement is unclear; in light of the parallelism (see “swords”) it is preferable to emend “their iniquities” to “their swords.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:135.