Discovery BoxEzekiel 5:17 
Context5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. 1 Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, 2 and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
Ezekiel 6:4
Context6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. 3
Ezekiel 21:20
Context21:20 Mark out the routes for the sword to take: “Rabbah of the Ammonites” and “Judah with Jerusalem in it.” 4
Ezekiel 23:16
Context23:16 When she saw them, 5 she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 6
1 tn Heb “will bereave you.”
2 tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.
3 tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.
sn This verse is probably based on Lev 26:30 in which God forecasts that he will destroy their high places, cut off their incense altars, and set their corpses by the corpses of their idols.
4 tc The MT reads “Judah in fortified Jerusalem,” a geographic impossibility. The translation follows the LXX, which assumes בְּתוֹכָהּ (bÿtokhah, “in it”) for בְּצוּרָה (bÿtsurah, “fortified”).
sn As the Babylonians approached from the north, one road would branch off to the left and lead down the east side of the Jordan River to Ammon. The other road would veer to the right and lead down west of the Jordan to Jerusalem.
5 tn Heb “at the appearance of her eyes.”
6 sn The Chaldeans were prominent tribal groups of Babylonia. The imagery is reminiscent of events in the reigns of Hezekiah (2 Kgs 20:12-15) and Jehoiakim (2 Kgs 23:34-24:1).
