Ezekiel 5:4

5:4 Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, ¹  and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 9:10

9:10 But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare ²  them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.” ³ 

Ezekiel 20:17

20:17 Yet I had pity on ⁴  them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:23

20:23 I also swore ⁵  to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 34:23

34:23 I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them – namely, my servant David. ⁷  He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 37:8

37:8 As I watched, I saw ⁸  tendons on them, then muscles appeared, ⁹  and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath ¹⁰  in them.

Ezekiel 43:24

43:24 You will present them before the Lord, and the priests will scatter salt on them ¹¹  and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

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¹ tn Heb “into the midst of” (so KJV, ASV). This phrase has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.

² tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

³ tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.” The same expression occurs in 1 Kgs 8:32; Ezek 11:21; 16:43; 22:31.

⁴ tn Heb “my eye pitied.”

⁵ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

⁶ sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.

⁷ sn The messianic king is here called “David” (see Jer 30:9 and Hos 3:5, as well as Isa 11:1 and Mic 5:2) because he will fulfill the Davidic royal ideal depicted in the prophets and royal psalms (see Ps 2, 89).

⁸ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

⁹ tn Heb “came up.”

¹⁰ tn Or “spirit.”

¹¹ sn It is likely that salt was used with sacrificial meals (Num 18:19; 2 Chr 13:5).