Discovery BoxEzekiel 25:9 
Context25:9 So look, I am about to open up Moab’s flank, 1 eliminating the cities, 2 including its frontier cities, 3 the beauty of the land – Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.
Ezekiel 27:11
Context27:11 The Arvadites 4 joined your army on your walls all around,
and the Gammadites 5 were in your towers.
They hung their quivers 6 on your walls all around;
they perfected your beauty.
Ezekiel 28:12
Context28:12 “Son of man, sing 7 a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘You were the sealer 8 of perfection,
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 28:17
Context28:17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor.
I threw you down to the ground;
I placed you before kings, that they might see you.
Ezekiel 31:8
Context31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,
nor could the fir trees 9 match its boughs;
the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;
no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.
1 tn Heb “shoulder.”
2 tn Heb “from the cities.” The verb “eliminating” has been added in the translation to reflect the privative use of the preposition (see BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b).
3 tn Heb “from its cities, from its end.”
4 tn Heb “sons of Arvad.”
5 sn The identity of the Gammadites is uncertain.
6 tn See note on “quivers” in Jer 51:11 on the meaning of Hebrew שֶׁלֶט (shelet) and also M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:553.
7 tn Heb “lift up.”
8 tn For a discussion of possible nuances of this phrase, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:580-81.
9 tn Or “cypress trees” (cf. NASB, NLT); NIV “pine trees.”
