Ezekiel 7:16

7:16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

Ezekiel 18:11

18:11 (though the father did not do any of them).¹ He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains,² defiles his neighbor’s wife,

18:15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you.³ Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains;⁴ they commit obscene acts among you.⁵

32:6 I will drench the land with the flow

of your blood up to the mountains,

and the ravines will be full of your blood.⁶

35:8 I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

36:8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon.⁷

38:21 I will call for a sword to attack⁸ Gog⁹ on all my mountains, declares the sovereign Lord; every man’s sword will be against his brother.

¹tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.

²sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.

³tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

⁴tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

⁵sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.

⁶tn Heb “from you.”

⁷tn Heb “they draw near to arrive.”

⁸tn Heb “against.”

⁹tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gog, cf. v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.