Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:26 
Context1:26 Above the platform over their heads was something like a sapphire shaped like a throne. High above on the throne was a form that appeared to be a man.
Ezekiel 9:4
Context9:4 The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem 1 and put a mark 2 on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”
Ezekiel 10:2
Context10:2 The Lord 3 said to the man dressed in linen, “Go between the wheelwork 4 underneath the cherubim. 5 Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.
Ezekiel 12:13
Context12:13 But I will throw my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans 6 (but he will not see it), 7 and there he will die. 8
Ezekiel 17:20
Context17:20 I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.
Ezekiel 20:33
Context20:33 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, 9 and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.
Ezekiel 21:31
Context21:31 I will pour out my anger on you;
the fire of my fury I will blow on you.
I will hand you over to brutal men,
who are skilled in destruction.
Ezekiel 23:28
Context23:28 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 10 I am about to deliver you over to 11 those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.
Ezekiel 26:17
Context26:17 They will sing this lament over you: 12
“‘How you have perished – you have vanished 13 from the seas,
O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! 14
Ezekiel 26:19
Context26:19 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging 15 waters overwhelm you,
Ezekiel 30:12
Context30:12 I will dry up the waterways
and hand the land over to 16 evil men.
I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.
I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 32:3
Context32:3 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘I will throw my net over you 17 in the assembly of many peoples;
and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
Ezekiel 32:18
Context32:18 “Son of man, wail 18 over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down; 19 bring 20 her 21 and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the pit.
Ezekiel 34:4
Context34:4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness 22 you have ruled over them.
Ezekiel 37:6
Context37:6 I will put tendons 23 on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath 24 in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 37:22
Context37:22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over them all. They will never again be two nations and never again be divided into two kingdoms. 25
Ezekiel 37:25
Context37:25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.
Ezekiel 43:27
Context43:27 When the prescribed period is over, 26 on the eighth day and thereafter the priests will offer up on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; 27 I will accept you, declares the sovereign Lord.”
1 tn Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.”
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
2 tn The word translated “mark” is in Hebrew the letter ת (tav). Outside this context the only other occurrence of the word is in Job 31:35. In ancient Hebrew script this letter was written like the letter X.
sn For a similar concept in the Bible, see Rev 7:2-4; 13:16; 14:9, 11; 20:4; 22:4.
3 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
4 tn The Hebrew term often refers to chariot wheels (Isa 28:28; Ezek 23:24; 26:10).
5 tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum
6 tn Or “Babylonians” (NCV, NLT).
sn The Chaldeans were a group of people in the country south of Babylon from which Nebuchadnezzar came. The Chaldean dynasty his father established became the name by which the Babylonians are regularly referred to in the book of Jeremiah, while Jeremiah’s contemporary, Ezekiel, uses both terms.
7 sn He will not see it. This prediction was fulfilled in 2 Kgs 25:7 and Jer 52:11, which recount how Zedekiah was blinded before being deported to Babylon.
8 sn There he will die. This was fulfilled when King Zedekiah died in exile (Jer 52:11).
9 sn This phrase occurs frequently in Deuteronomy (Deut 4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 11:2; 26:8).
10 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
11 tn Heb “I am giving you into the hand of.”
12 tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”
13 tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.
14 tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”
15 tn Heb “many.”
16 tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”
17 tn The expression “throw my net” is common in Ezekiel (12:13; 17:20; 19:8).
18 tn The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death (Jer 9:17-19; Amos 5:16).
19 sn Through this prophetic lament given by God himself, the prophet activates the judgment described therein. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:217, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:136-37.
20 tn Heb “Bring him down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth below.” The verb “bring down” appears in the Hebrew text only once. Because the verb takes several objects here, the repetition of the verb in the translation improves the English style.
21 tn This apparently refers to personified Egypt.
22 tn The term translated “harshness” is used to describe the oppression the Israelites suffered as slaves in Egypt (Exod 1:13).
23 tn The exact physiological meaning of the term is uncertain. In addition to v. 8, the term occurs only in Gen 32:33; Job 10:11; 40:17; and Jer 48:4.
24 tn Or “a spirit.”
25 sn Jeremiah also attested to the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms (Jer 3:12, 14; 31:2-6).
26 tn Heb “and they will complete the days.”
27 sn The people also could partake of the food of the peace offering (Lev 3).
