Discovery BoxEzekiel 3:25 
Context3:25 As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.
Ezekiel 4:8
Context4:8 Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege. 1
Ezekiel 4:15
Context4:15 So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”
Ezekiel 8:8
Context8:8 He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.
Ezekiel 9:7
Context9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.
Ezekiel 11:20
Context11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. 2
Ezekiel 17:14
Context17:14 so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.
Ezekiel 20:12
Context20:12 I also gave them my Sabbaths 3 as a reminder of our relationship, 4 so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. 5
Ezekiel 20:14
Context20:14 I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:17
Context20:17 Yet I had pity on 6 them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 22:27
Context22:27 Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey – shedding blood and destroying lives – so they can get dishonest profit.
Ezekiel 24:8
Context24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,
I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.
Ezekiel 25:10
Context25:10 I will hand it over, 7 along with the Ammonites, 8 to the tribes 9 of the east, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.
Ezekiel 27:25
Context27:25 The ships of Tarshish 10 were the transports for your merchandise.
“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 36:18
Context36:18 So I poured my anger on them 11 because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. 12
Ezekiel 36:30
Context36:30 I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
Ezekiel 37:10
Context37:10 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army.
Ezekiel 43:10
Context43:10 “As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their sins and measure the pattern.
1 sn The action surely refers to a series of daily acts rather than to a continuous period.
2 sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).
3 sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).
4 tn Heb “to become a sign between me and them.”
5 tn Or “set them apart.” The last phrase of verse 12 appears to be a citation of Exod 31:13.
6 tn Heb “my eye pitied.”
7 tn Heb “I will give it for a possession.”
8 tn Heb “the sons of Ammon” (twice in this verse).
9 tn Heb “the sons.”
10 tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.
11 sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.
12 sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.
