Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:3 
Context1:3 the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel 1 the son of Buzi, 2 at the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. 3 The hand 4 of the Lord came on him there).
Ezekiel 6:14
Context6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them 5 and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, 6 in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 7:7
Context7:7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day 7 is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains. 8
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 9 (but he will not see it), 10 and there he will die. 11
Ezekiel 14:16
Context14:16 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate.
Ezekiel 16:3
Context16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 20:9
Context20:9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, 12 so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, 13 before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 14
Ezekiel 20:36
Context20:36 Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 22:29-30
Context22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy; they have oppressed the foreigner who lives among them and denied them justice. 15
22:30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. 16
Ezekiel 23:27
Context23:27 So I will put an end to your obscene conduct and your prostitution which you have practiced in the land of Egypt. 17 You will not seek their help 18 or remember Egypt anymore.
Ezekiel 25:9
Context25:9 So look, I am about to open up Moab’s flank, 19 eliminating the cities, 20 including its frontier cities, 21 the beauty of the land – Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.
Ezekiel 29:9-10
Context29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,” 29:10 I am against 22 you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol 23 to Syene, 24 as far as the border with Ethiopia.
Ezekiel 32:23
Context32:23 Their 25 graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. 26 Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:26
Context32:26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. 27 All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:32
Context32:32 Indeed, I terrified him in the land of the living, yet he will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 33:25
Context33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, 28 pray to 29 your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess 30 the land?
Ezekiel 33:28
Context33:28 I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.
Ezekiel 34:25
Context34:25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely 31 in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods. 32
Ezekiel 34:29
Context34:29 I will prepare for them a healthy 33 planting. They will no longer be victims 34 of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.
Ezekiel 36:17
Context36:17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior 35 and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.
Ezekiel 36:20
Context36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’
Ezekiel 37:12
Context37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:14
Context37:14 I will place my breath 36 in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord – I have spoken and I will act, declares the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 37:21-22
Context37:21 Then tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land. 37:22 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. 37
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 38:11
Context38:11 You will say, “I will invade 38 a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against 39 those living quietly in security – all of them living without walls and barred gates –
Ezekiel 39:14-15
Context39:14 They will designate men to scout continually 40 through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, 41 in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months. 39:15 When the scouts survey 42 the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it 43 in the valley of Hamon-Gog.
Ezekiel 39:28
Context39:28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will not leave any of them in exile 44 any longer.
Ezekiel 40:2
Context40:2 By means of divine visions 45 he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, 46 and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.
Ezekiel 47:13
Context47:13 This is what the sovereign Lord says: “Here 47 are the borders 48 you will observe as you allot the land to the twelve tribes of Israel. (Joseph will have two portions.) 49
Ezekiel 47:18
Context47:18 On the east side, between Hauran and Damascus, and between Gilead and the land of Israel, will be the Jordan. You will measure from the border to the eastern sea. This is the east side.
1 sn The prophet’s name, Ezekiel, means in Hebrew “May God strengthen.”
2 tn Or “to Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest.”
3 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon, “Chaldeans” is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon. The Babylonians worked with the Medes to destroy the Assyrian Empire near the end of the 7th century
4 tn Or “power.”
sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s “hand” being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).
5 sn I will stretch out my hand against them is a common expression in the book of Ezekiel (14:9, 13; 16:27; 25:7; 35:3).
6 tc The Vulgate reads the name as “Riblah,” a city north of Damascus. The MT reads Diblah, a city otherwise unknown. The letters resh (ר) and dalet (ד) may have been confused in the Hebrew text. The town of Riblah was in the land of Hamath (2 Kgs 23:33) which represented the northern border of Israel (Ezek 47:14).
7 sn The day refers to the day of the Lord, a concept which, beginning in Amos 5:18-20, became a common theme in the OT prophetic books. It refers to a time when the Lord intervenes in human affairs as warrior and judge.
8 tc The LXX reads “neither tumult nor birth pains.” The LXX varies at many points from the MT in this chapter. The context suggests that one or both of these would be present on a day of judgment, thus favoring the MT. Perhaps more significant is the absence of “the mountains” in the LXX. If the ר (resh) in הָרִים (harim, “the mountains” not “on the mountains”) were a ד (dalet), which is a common letter confusion, then it could be from the same root as the previous word, הֵד (hed), meaning “the day is near – with destruction, not joyful shouting.”
9 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.
10 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.
11 sn There he will die. This was fulfilled when King Zedekiah died in exile (Jer 52:11).
12 tn Heb “for the sake of my name.”
13 tn Heb “before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were.”
14 tn Heb “to whom I made myself known before their eyes to bring them out from the land of Egypt.” The translation understands the infinitive construct (“to bring them out”) as indicating manner. God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt was an act of self-revelation in that it displayed his power and his commitment to his promises.
15 tn Heb “and the foreigner they have oppressed without justice.”
16 tn Heb “I did not find.”
17 tn Heb “I will cause your obscene conduct to cease from you and your harlotry from the land of Egypt.”
18 tn Heb “lift your eyes to them.”
19 tn Heb “shoulder.”
20 tn Heb “from the cities.” The verb “eliminating” has been added in the translation to reflect the privative use of the preposition (see BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b).
21 tn Heb “from its cities, from its end.”
22 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.
23 sn This may refer to a site in the Egyptian Delta which served as a refuge for Jews (Jer 44:1; 46:14).
24 sn Syene is known today as Aswan.
25 tn Heb “whose.”
26 tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.
27 tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).
28 sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).
29 tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”
30 tn Heb “Will you possess?”
31 tn The phrase “live securely” occurs in Ezek 28:26; 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26 as an expression of freedom from fear. It is a promised blessing resulting from obedience (see Lev 26:5-6).
32 sn The woods were typically considered to be places of danger (Ps 104:20-21; Jer 5:6).
33 tc The MT reads לְשֵׁם (lÿshem, “for a name”), meaning perhaps a renowned planting (place). The translation takes this to be a metathesis of שָׁלֹם (shalom) as was read by the LXX.
34 tn Heb “those gathered” for famine.
35 tn Heb “way.”
36 tn Or “spirit.” This is likely an allusion to Gen 2 and God’s breath which creates life.
37 sn Jeremiah also attested to the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms (Jer 3:12, 14; 31:2-6).
38 tn Heb “go up against.”
39 tn Heb “come (to).”
40 tn Heb “men of perpetuity.”
41 tn Heb “and bury the travelers and those who remain on the surface of the ground.” The reference to “travelers” seems odd and is omitted in the LXX. It is probably an accidental duplication (see v. 11).
42 tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”
43 tn That is, the aforementioned bone.
44 tn Heb “there,” referring to the foreign nations to which they were exiled. The translation makes the referent clear.
45 tn The expression introduces the three major visions of Ezekiel (1:1; 8:3; 40:2).
46 tn The reference to a very high mountain is harmonious with Isa 2:2.
47 tc This translation follows the reading זֶה (zeh) instead of גֵּה (geh), a nonexistent word, as supported by the LXX.
48 tn Or “territory”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:715.
49 tc The grammar is awkward, though the presence of these words is supported by the versions. L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 2:274) suggests that it is an explanatory gloss.
sn One portion for Ephraim, the other for Manasseh (Gen 48:17-20).
