Discovery BoxEzekiel 28:7 
Context28:7 I am about to bring foreigners 1 against you, the most terrifying of nations.
They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, 2
and they will defile your splendor.
Ezekiel 30:12
Context30:12 I will dry up the waterways
and hand the land over to 3 evil men.
I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.
I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 44:7
Context44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate 4 it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You 5 have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
Ezekiel 44:9
Context44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. 6
1 sn This is probably a reference to the Babylonians.
2 tn Heb “they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.”
3 tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”
4 tn Heb “to desecrate.”
5 tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”
6 sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.
