Ezekiel 8:11-12
8:11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel 1 (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant 2 vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.
8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? 3 For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”
Ezekiel 17:15
17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family 4 rebelled against the king of Babylon 5 by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?
Ezekiel 21:22
21:22 Into his right hand 6 comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal 7 for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, 8 to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.
Ezekiel 26:10
26:10 He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. 9 Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city’s broken walls. 10
Ezekiel 29:19
29:19 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth, capture her loot, and seize her plunder; it will be his army’s wages.
Ezekiel 31:18
31:18 Which of the trees of Eden was like you in majesty and loftiness? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword! This is what will happen to Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 33:6
33:6 But suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people. Then the sword comes and takes one of their lives. He is swept away for his iniquity, 11 but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person’s death.’ 12
Ezekiel 33:11
33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior 13 and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! 14 Why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Ezekiel 39:11
39:11 “‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog. 15
1 sn Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).
2 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
3 tn Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
sn This type of image is explicitly prohibited in the Mosaic law (Lev 26:1).
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.
7 tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.
8 tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”
9 tn Heb “From the abundance of his horses he will cover you (with) their dust.”
10 tn Heb “like those who enter a breached city.”
11 tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 8 and 9; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
12 tn Heb “his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.”
13 tn Heb “turn from his way.”
14 tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.
15 tn The name means “horde of Gog.”