Discovery BoxEzekiel 3:19 
Context3:19 But as for you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wicked deed and from his wicked lifestyle, he will die for his iniquity but you will have saved your own life. 1
Ezekiel 7:15
Context7:15 The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.
Ezekiel 12:13
Context12:13 But I will throw my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans 2 (but he will not see it), 3 and there he will die. 4
Ezekiel 17:16
Context17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city 5 of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!
Ezekiel 17:21
Context17:21 All the choice men 6 among his troops will die 7 by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 18:13
Context18:13 engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. 8 He will bear the responsibility for his own death. 9
Ezekiel 18:17
Context18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, 10 does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; 11 he will surely live.
Ezekiel 18:21
Context18:21 “But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
Ezekiel 30:6
Context30:6 “‘This is what the Lord says:
Egypt’s supporters will fall;
her confident pride will crumble. 12
From Migdol to Syene 13 they will die by the sword within her,
declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 33:9
Context33:9 But if you warn the wicked man to change his behavior, 14 and he refuses to change, 15 he will die for his iniquity, but you have saved your own life.
Ezekiel 33:13
Context33:13 Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.
Ezekiel 33:15
Context33:15 He 16 returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, 17 committing no iniquity. He will certainly live – he will not die.
1 tn Verses 17-19 are repeated in Ezek 33:7-9.
2 tn Or “Babylonians” (NCV, NLT).
sn The Chaldeans were a group of people in the country south of Babylon from which Nebuchadnezzar came. The Chaldean dynasty his father established became the name by which the Babylonians are regularly referred to in the book of Jeremiah, while Jeremiah’s contemporary, Ezekiel, uses both terms.
3 sn He will not see it. This prediction was fulfilled in 2 Kgs 25:7 and Jer 52:11, which recount how Zedekiah was blinded before being deported to Babylon.
4 sn There he will die. This was fulfilled when King Zedekiah died in exile (Jer 52:11).
5 tn Heb “place.”
6 tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhyv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharyv).
7 tn Heb “fall.”
8 tn Heb “be put to death.” The translation follows an alternative reading that appears in several ancient textual witnesses.
9 tn Heb “his blood will be upon him.”
10 tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.
11 tn Or “in his father’s punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 18, 19, 20; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”
12 tn Heb “come down.”
13 sn Syene is known as Aswan today.
14 tn Heb “from his way to turn from it.”
15 tn Heb “and he does not turn from his way.”
16 tn Heb “the wicked one.”
17 tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”
