Discovery BoxEzekiel 11:10 
Context11:10 You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 12:14
Context12:14 All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 21:5
Context21:5 Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath – it will not be sheathed again!’
Ezekiel 21:10-11
Context21:10 It is sharpened for slaughter,
it is polished to flash like lightning!
“‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree! 1
21:11 “‘He gave it to be polished,
to be grasped in the hand –
the sword is sharpened, it is polished –
giving it into the hand of the executioner.
Ezekiel 21:13
Context21:13 “‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? 2 declares the sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 23:10
Context23:10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious 3 among women, and they executed judgments against her.
Ezekiel 26:6
Context26:6 and her daughters 4 who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 26:11
Context26:11 With his horses’ hoofs he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will tumble down to the ground.
Ezekiel 29:8
Context29:8 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill 5 every person and every animal.
Ezekiel 30:4-5
Context30:4 A sword will come against Egypt
and panic will overtake Ethiopia
when the slain fall in Egypt
and they carry away her wealth
and dismantle her foundations.
30:5 Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, 6 Libya, and the people 7 of the covenant land 8 will die by the sword along with them.
Ezekiel 30:17
Context30:17 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth 9 will die by the sword;
and the cities will go 10 into captivity.
Ezekiel 31:17
Context31:17 Those who lived in its shade, its allies 11 among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:28
Context32:28 “But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:31
Context32:31 “Pharaoh will see them and be consoled over all his hordes who were killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 35:8
Context35:8 I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.
1 tn Heb “Or shall we rejoice, scepter of my son, it despises every tree.” The translation understands the subject of the verb “despises,” which is a feminine form in the Hebrew text, to be the sword (which is a feminine noun) mentioned just before this. Alternatively, the line may be understood as “let us not rejoice, O tribe of my son; it despises every tree.” The same word in Hebrew may be either “rod,” “scepter,” or “tribe.” The word sometimes translated as “or” or taken as an interrogative particle may be a negative particle. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:672, n. 79.
sn The people of Judah should not place false hope in their king, symbolized by his royal scepter, for God’s judgment (symbolized by fire and then a sword) would destroy every tree (see 20:47), symbolizing the righteous and wicked (see 21:3-4).
2 tn Heb “For testing (will come) and what if also a scepter, it despises, will not be?” The translation understands the subject of the verb “despises,” which is a feminine form in the Hebrew text, to be the sword (which is a feminine noun) mentioned in the previous verses. The text is very difficult and any rendering is uncertain.
3 tn Heb “name.”
4 sn That is, the towns located inland that were under Tyre’s rule.
5 tn Heb “I will cut off from you.”
6 tn The same expression appears in Exod 12:38; Jer 25:20; 50:37; Neh 13:3. It may refer to foreign mercenaries serving in the armies of the nations listed here.
7 tn Heb “sons.”
8 tn The expression “sons of the covenant land” possibly refers to Jews living in Egypt (Jer 44).
9 sn On and Pi-beseth are generally identified with the Egyptian cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis.
10 tn Heb “they will go.” The pronoun and verb are feminine plural, indicating that the cities just mentioned are the antecedent of the pronoun and the subject of the verb. The translation makes this clear by stating the subject as “the cities.”
11 tn Heb “its arm.”
