Ezekiel 7:11

7:11 Violence ¹  has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left ²  – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. ³ 

Ezekiel 20:37

20:37 I will make you pass under ⁴  the shepherd’s staff, ⁵  and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Ezekiel 29:6

29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord

because they were a reed staff ⁶  for the house of Israel;

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¹ tn Heb “the violence.”

² tc The LXX reads “he will crush the wicked rod without confusion or haste.”

tn The verb has been supplied for the Hebrew text to clarify the sense.

³ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

⁴ tn This is the same Hebrew verb used to describe the passing of the children through the fire.

⁵ sn The metaphor may be based in Lev 27:32 (see also Jer 33:13; Matt 25:32-33). A shepherd would count his sheep as they passed beneath his staff.

⁶ sn Compare Isa 36:6.