Discovery BoxEzekiel 26:19 
Context26:19 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging 1 waters overwhelm you,
Ezekiel 36:38
Context36:38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem 2 during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 39:9
Context39:9 “‘Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and use the weapons for kindling 3 – the shields, 4 bows and arrows, war clubs and spears – they will burn them for seven years.
Ezekiel 45:5
Context45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles 5 in length and three and one-third miles 6 in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities 7 in which they will live.
1 tn Heb “many.”
2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
3 tn Heb “burn and kindle the weapons.”
4 tn Two different types of shields are specified in the Hebrew text.
5 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
6 tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).
7 tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.
