Ezekiel 6:5

6:5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Ezekiel 12:14-15

12:14 All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.

12:15 “Then they will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

Ezekiel 20:23

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

Ezekiel 30:26

30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 34:21

34:21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad,

Ezekiel 43:24

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


tc This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a marginal explanatory note making its way into the text.

tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

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.

tn Heb “outside.”

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