Discovery BoxEzekiel 2:8 
Context2:8 As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”
Ezekiel 5:9
Context5:9 I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices. 1
Ezekiel 16:18
Context16:18 You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.
Ezekiel 19:2
Context19:2 and say:
“‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions!
She lay among young lions; 2 she reared her cubs.
Ezekiel 20:18
Context20:18 “‘But I said to their children 3 in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, 4 nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 27:22
Context27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.
Ezekiel 29:10
Context29:10 I am against 5 you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol 6 to Syene, 7 as far as the border with Ethiopia.
Ezekiel 33:2
Context33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, 8 and say to them, ‘Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.
Ezekiel 36:29
Context36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.
Ezekiel 39:4
Context39:4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.
1 tn Or “abominable idols.”
2 sn Lions probably refer to Judahite royalty and/or nobility. The lioness appears to symbolize the Davidic dynasty, though some see the referent as Hamutal, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. Gen 49:9 seems to be the background for Judah being compared to lions.
3 tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.
4 tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.
5 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
6 sn This may refer to a site in the Egyptian Delta which served as a refuge for Jews (Jer 44:1; 46:14).
7 sn Syene is known today as Aswan.
8 tn Heb “sons of your people.”
