Discovery BoxEzekiel 21:30 
Context21:30 Return it to its sheath! 1
In the place where you were created, 2
in your native land, I will judge you.
Ezekiel 24:5
Context24:5 Take the choice bone of the flock,
heap up bones under it;
boil rapidly,
and boil its bones in it.
Ezekiel 31:9
Context31:9 I made it beautiful with its many branches;
all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.
Ezekiel 40:38
Context40:38 There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; 3 there they washed the burnt offering.
1 sn Once the Babylonian king’s sword (vv. 19-20) has carried out its assigned task, the Lord commands it to halt and announces that Babylon itself will also experience his judgment. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:28.
2 tn In the Hebrew text of vv. 30-32 the second person verbal and pronominal forms are feminine singular. This may indicate that the personified Babylonian sword is being addressed. The Hebrew word for “sword” (see v. 28) is feminine. However, it may refer to the Ammonites.
3 tc The MT reads “jambs of the gates” which does not make sense in a context discussing one chamber. The emendation to “porch” is similar to v. 14. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:530.
