Discovery BoxEzekiel 11:16 
Context11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little 1 sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’
Ezekiel 20:5
Context20:5 and say to them:
“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore 2 to the descendants 3 of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore 4 to them, “I am the Lord your God.”
Ezekiel 37:19
Context37:19 tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah, 5 and make them into one stick – they will be one in my hand.’ 6
Ezekiel 39:23
Context39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, 7 for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.
1 tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).
2 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
3 tn Heb “seed.”
4 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
5 tn Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”
6 sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.
7 tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
