Discovery BoxEzekiel 19:5 
Context19:5 “‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost.
She took another of her cubs 1 and made him a young lion.
Ezekiel 23:12
Context23:12 She lusted after the Assyrians – governors and officials, warriors in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel 23:21
Context23:21 This is how you assessed 2 the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled 3 your nipples and squeezed 4 your young breasts.
Ezekiel 30:17
Context30:17 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth 5 will die by the sword;
and the cities will go 6 into captivity.
Ezekiel 46:6
Context46:6 On the day of the new moon he will offer 7 an unblemished young bull, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.
1 sn The identity of this second lion is unclear; the referent is probably Jehoiakim or Zedekiah. If the lioness is Hamutal, then Zedekiah is the lion described here.
2 tn Or “you took note of.” The Hebrew verb פָּקַד (paqad) in the Qal implies evaluating something and then acting in light of that judgment; here the prophet depicts Judah as approving of her youthful unfaithfulness and then magnifying it at the present time. Some translations assume the verb should be repointed as a Niphal, rendering “you missed” or by extension “you longed for,” but such an extension of the Niphal “to be missing” is otherwise unattested.
3 tn Heb “when (they) did,” but the verb makes no sense here and is better emended to “when (they) fondled,” a verb used in vv. 3 and 8. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:43.
4 tn Heb “for the sake of,” but the expression is awkward and is better emended to read “to squeeze.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:43.
5 sn On and Pi-beseth are generally identified with the Egyptian cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis.
6 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.”
7 tn The phrase “he will offer” is not in the Hebrew text but is warranted from the context.
