Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:28 
Context1:28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. 1 This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw 2 it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.
Ezekiel 12:7
Context12:7 So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage 3 on my shoulder while they watched.
Ezekiel 17:22
Context17:22 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘I will take a sprig 4 from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it. 5
I will pluck from the top one of its tender twigs;
I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Ezekiel 20:5
Context20:5 and say to them:
“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore 6 to the descendants 7 of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore 8 to them, “I am the Lord your God.”
Ezekiel 28:22
Context28:22 Say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against you, 9 Sidon,
and I will magnify myself in your midst.
Then they will know that I am the Lord
when I execute judgments on her
and reveal my sovereign power 10 in her.
Ezekiel 29:3
Context29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against 11 you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster 12 lying in the midst of its waterways,
who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” 13
Ezekiel 35:11
Context35:11 therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.
Ezekiel 36:23
Context36:23 I will magnify 14 my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.
Ezekiel 38:16
Context38:16 You will advance 15 against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself 16 through you, O Gog.
1 sn Reference to the glowing substance and the brilliant light and storm phenomena in vv. 27-28a echoes in reverse order the occurrence of these phenomena in v. 4.
2 tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.
3 tn The words “my baggage” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied from the context.
4 sn The language is analogous to messianic imagery in Isa 11:1; Zech 3:8; 6:4 although the technical terminology is not the same.
5 tc The LXX lacks “and plant it.”
6 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
7 tn Heb “seed.”
8 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
9 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
10 tn Or “reveal my holiness.” God’s “holiness” is fundamentally his transcendence as sovereign ruler of the world. The revelation of his authority and power through judgment is in view in this context.
11 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
12 tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew
13 sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.
14 tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”
15 tn Heb “come up.”
16 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”
