Discovery BoxEzekiel 2:6-7 
Context2:6 But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words – even though briers 1 and thorns 2 surround you and you live among scorpions – do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, 3 for they are a rebellious house! 2:7 You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.
Ezekiel 3:18
Context3:18 When I say to the wicked, “You will certainly die,” 4 and you do not warn him – you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked deed and wicked lifestyle so that he may live – that wicked person will die for his iniquity, 5 but I will hold you accountable for his death. 6
Ezekiel 8:13
Context8:13 He said to me, “You will see them practicing even greater abominations!”
Ezekiel 16:23-24
Context16:23 “‘After all of your evil – “Woe! Woe to you!” declares the sovereign Lord – 16:24 you built yourself a chamber 7 and put up a pavilion 8 in every public square.
Ezekiel 16:37
Context16:37 therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness. 9
Ezekiel 16:43-44
Context16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, 10 declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
16:44 “‘Observe – everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”
Ezekiel 16:58
Context16:58 You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 21:6
Context21:6 “And you, son of man, groan with an aching heart 11 and bitterness; groan before their eyes.
Ezekiel 23:26
Context23:26 They will strip your clothes off you and take away your beautiful jewelry.
Ezekiel 24:26
Context24:26 On that day a fugitive will come to you to report the news. 12
Ezekiel 28:2
Context28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince 13 of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Your heart is proud 14 and you said, “I am a god; 15
I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –
yet you are a man and not a god,
though you think you are godlike. 16
Ezekiel 29:5
Context29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your waterways;
you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. 17
I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.
Ezekiel 32:4
Context32:4 I will leave you on the ground,
I will fling you on the open field,
I will allow 18 all the birds of the sky to settle 19 on you,
and I will permit 20 all the wild animals 21 to gorge themselves on you.
Ezekiel 34:18
Context34:18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?
Ezekiel 36:11
Context36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. 22 I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. 23 Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 37:20
Context37:20 The sticks you write on will be in your hand in front of them.
Ezekiel 39:5
Context39:5 You will fall dead in the open field; for I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 40:4
Context40:4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention 24 to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. 25 Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”
Ezekiel 45:12
Context45:12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels 26 will be a mina for you.
Ezekiel 47:21
Context47:21 “This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.
1 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
2 tn The Hebrew term is found elsewhere in the OT only in Ezek 28:24.
sn Here thorns may be a figure for hostility (Ezek 28:24; Mic 7:4).
3 tn Heb “of their faces.”
4 sn Even though the infinitive absolute is used to emphasize the warning, the warning is still implicitly conditional, as the following context makes clear.
5 tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and v. 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”
6 tn Heb “his blood I will seek from your hand.” The expression “seek blood from the hand” is equivalent to requiring the death penalty (2 Sam 4:11-12).
7 tn The Hebrew גֶּב (gev) may represent more than one word, each rare in the Old Testament. It may refer to a “mound” or to “rafters.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate interpret this as a brothel.
8 tn Or “lofty place” (NRSV). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:229, and B. Lang, Frau Weisheit, 137.
9 sn Harlots suffered degradation when their nakedness was exposed (Jer 13:22, 26; Hos 2:12; Nah 3:5).
10 tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”
11 tn Heb “breaking loins.”
12 tn Heb “to make the ears hear.”
13 tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).
14 tn Heb “lifted up.”
sn See Prov 16:5.
15 tn Or “I am divine.”
16 tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”
17 tc Some Hebrew
18 tn Or “cause.”
19 tn Heb “live.”
20 tn Or “cause.”
21 tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.
22 sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.
23 tn Heb “your beginning.”
24 tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”
25 tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”
26 tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”
