Discovery BoxEzekiel 2:4 
Context2:4 The people 1 to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, 2 and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ 3
Ezekiel 3:5
Context3:5 For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech 4 and difficult language, 5 but 6 to the house of Israel –
Ezekiel 4:13
Context4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations 7 where I will banish them.”
Ezekiel 6:5
Context6:5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, 8 and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezekiel 9:5
Context9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, 9 “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare 10 anyone!
Ezekiel 9:7
Context9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.
Ezekiel 11:20
Context11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. 11
Ezekiel 13:17
Context13:17 “As for you, son of man, turn toward 12 the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. 13 Prophesy against them
Ezekiel 13:23
Context13:23 Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you 14 will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 14:19
Context14:19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.
Ezekiel 18:18
Context18:18 As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
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 30:5
Context30:5 Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, 15 Libya, and the people 16 of the covenant land 17 will die by the sword along with them.
Ezekiel 33:17
Context33:17 “Yet your people 18 say, ‘The behavior 19 of the Lord is not right,’ 20 when it is their behavior that is not right.
Ezekiel 34:30-31
Context34:30 Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, 21 and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. 22 34:31 And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, 23 and I am your God, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 36:8
Context36:8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon. 24
Ezekiel 36:10
Context36:10 I will multiply your people 25 – the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.
Ezekiel 36:28
Context36:28 Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God. 26
Ezekiel 37:13
Context37:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.
Ezekiel 39:13
Context39:13 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will be a memorial 27 for them on the day I magnify myself, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 44:23
Context44:23 Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean. 28
Ezekiel 45:22
Context45:22 On that day the prince will provide for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
Ezekiel 46:3
Context46:3 The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
Ezekiel 46:24
Context46:24 Then he said to me, “These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.”
1 tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son.
2 tc Heb “stern of face and hard of heart.” The phrases “stern of face” and “hard of heart” are lacking in the LXX.
3 tn The phrase “thus says [the
4 tn Heb “deep of lip” (in the sense of incomprehensible).
5 tn Heb “heavy of tongue.” Similar language occurs in Exod 4:10; Isa 33:19.
6 tn The conjunction “but” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied from the context.
7 sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).
8 tc This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a marginal explanatory note making its way into the text.
9 tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”
10 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
11 sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).
12 tn Heb “set your face against.”
13 tn Heb “from their heart.”
14 tn The Hebrew verb is feminine plural, indicating that it is the false prophetesses who are addressed here.
15 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.
16 tn Heb “sons.”
17 tn The expression “sons of the covenant land” possibly refers to Jews living in Egypt (Jer 44).
18 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
19 tn Heb “way.”
20 tn The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29.
21 sn A promise given to Abraham (Gen 15:7) and his descendants (Gen 15:8; Exod 6:7).
22 sn The blessings described in vv. 25-30 are those promised for obedience in Lev 26:4-13.
23 tn Heb, “the sheep of my pasture, you are human.” See 36:37-38 for a similar expression. The possessive pronoun “my” is supplied in the translation to balance “I am your God” in the next clause.
24 tn Heb “they draw near to arrive.”
25 tn Heb “I will multiply on you human(s).”
26 sn This promise reflects the ancient covenantal ideal (see Exod 6:7).
27 tn Heb “name.”
28 sn This task was a fundamental role of the priest (Lev 10:10).
