Discovery BoxEzekiel 3:3 
Context3:3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, 1 and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.
Ezekiel 3:17
Context3:17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman 2 for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me.
Ezekiel 6:12
Context6:12 The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these 3 will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.
Ezekiel 6:14
Context6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them 4 and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, 5 in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 7:3-4
Context7:3 The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge 6 you according to your behavior, 7 I will hold you accountable for 8 all your abominable practices. 7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 9 you. 10 For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, 11 and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. 12 Then you will know that I am the Lord!
Ezekiel 8:1
Context8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, 13 as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand 14 of the sovereign Lord seized me. 15
Ezekiel 8:6
Context8:6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people 16 of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!”
Ezekiel 9:6
Context9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
Ezekiel 12:28
Context12:28 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer! The word I speak will come to pass, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 13:10
Context13:10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” 17 when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, 18 they coat it with whitewash.
Ezekiel 13:15
Context13:15 I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, “The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more –
Ezekiel 13:21
Context13:21 I will tear off your headbands and rescue my people from your power; 19 they will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:11
Context14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, 20 declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 14:13
Context14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, 21 cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
Ezekiel 14:21
Context14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem 22 to kill both people and animals!
Ezekiel 16:19
Context16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 16:27
Context16:27 So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.
Ezekiel 16:61
Context16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.
Ezekiel 18:19
Context18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer 23 for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, 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 18:29
Context18:29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?
Ezekiel 20:9
Context20:9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, 24 so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, 25 before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 26
Ezekiel 20:22
Context20:22 But I refrained from doing so, 27 and acted instead 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 20:41
Context20:41 When I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, I will accept you along with your soothing aroma. I will display my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 20:44
Context20:44 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for the sake of my reputation and not according to your wicked conduct and corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 21:3-4
Context21:3 and say to them, 28 ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, 29 I am against you. 30 I will draw my sword 31 from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 32 21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone 33 from the south 34 to the north.
Ezekiel 22:22
Context22:22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.’”
Ezekiel 24:13
Context24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. 35
I tried to cleanse you, 36 but you are not clean.
You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness 37
until I have exhausted my anger on you.
Ezekiel 25:16
Context25:16 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note, I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines. I will kill 38 the Cherethites 39 and destroy those who remain on the seacoast.
Ezekiel 30:24
Context30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon. 40
Ezekiel 32:10
Context32:10 I will shock many peoples with you,
and their kings will shiver with horror because of you.
When I brandish my sword before them,
every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.
Ezekiel 33:31
Context33:31 They come to you in crowds, 41 and they sit in front of you as 42 my people. They hear your words, but do not obey 43 them. For they talk lustfully, 44 and their heart is set on 45 their own advantage. 46
Ezekiel 34:12
Context34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. 47
Ezekiel 34:26
Context34:26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing. 48
Ezekiel 35:3
Context35:3 Say to it, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir;
I will stretch out my hand against you
and turn you into a desolate ruin.
Ezekiel 36:17
Context36:17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior 49 and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.
Ezekiel 36:20
Context36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’
Ezekiel 37:12
Context37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:14
Context37:14 I will place my breath 50 in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord – I have spoken and I will act, declares the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 37:26
Context37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. 51 I will establish them, 52 increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.
Ezekiel 38:14
Context38:14 “Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day when my people Israel are living securely, you will take notice 53
Ezekiel 38:17
Context38:17 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants 54 the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days 55 that I would bring you against them?
Ezekiel 39:25
Context39:25 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Now I will restore 56 the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have mercy on the entire house of Israel. I will be zealous for my holy name.
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. 57
Ezekiel 44:13
Context44:13 They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed.
Ezekiel 45:9
Context45:9 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, 58 declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 48:11
Context48:11 This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did. 59
1 tc Heb “I ate,” a first common singular preterite plus paragogic he (ה). The ancient versions read “I ate it,” which is certainly the meaning in the context, and indicates they read the he as a third feminine singular pronominal suffix. The Masoretes typically wrote a mappiq in the he for the pronominal suffix but apparently missed this one.
sn I ate it. A similar idea of consuming God’s word is found in Jer 15:16 and Rev 10:10, where it is also compared to honey and may be specifically reminiscent of this text.
2 tn The literal role of a watchman is described in 2 Sam 18:24; 2 Kgs 9:17.
3 tn Heb “the one who is left, the one who is spared.”
4 sn I will stretch out my hand against them is a common expression in the book of Ezekiel (14:9, 13; 16:27; 25:7; 35:3).
5 tc The Vulgate reads the name as “Riblah,” a city north of Damascus. The MT reads Diblah, a city otherwise unknown. The letters resh (ר) and dalet (ד) may have been confused in the Hebrew text. The town of Riblah was in the land of Hamath (2 Kgs 23:33) which represented the northern border of Israel (Ezek 47:14).
6 tn Or “punish” (cf. BDB 1047 s.v. שָׁפַט 3.c).
7 tn Heb “ways.”
8 tn Heb “I will place on you.”
9 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
10 tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.
11 tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”
12 tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”
13 tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”
sn In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month would be September 17, 592
14 tn Or “power.”
sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).
15 tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.
16 tn Heb “house.”
17 tn Or “peace.”
18 tn The Hebrew word only occurs here in the Bible. According to L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:202-3) it is also used in the Mishnah of a wall of rough stones without mortar. This fits the context here comparing the false prophetic messages to a nice coat of whitewash on a structurally unstable wall.
19 tn Heb “from your hand(s).” This refers to their power over the people.
20 sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4.
21 tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”
22 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
23 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
24 tn Heb “for the sake of my name.”
25 tn Heb “before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were.”
26 tn Heb “to whom I made myself known before their eyes to bring them out from the land of Egypt.” The translation understands the infinitive construct (“to bring them out”) as indicating manner. God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt was an act of self-revelation in that it displayed his power and his commitment to his promises.
27 tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.
28 tn Heb “the land of Israel.”
29 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.
30 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
31 sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.
32 sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.
33 tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).
34 tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.
35 tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”
36 tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.
37 tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”
38 tn In Hebrew the verb “and I will cut off” sounds like its object, “the Cherethites,” and draws attention to the statement.
39 sn This is a name for the Philistines, many of whom migrated to Palestine from Crete.
40 tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
41 tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.
42 tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.
43 tn Heb “do.”
44 tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”
45 tn Heb “goes after.”
46 tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.
47 sn The imagery may reflect the overthrow of the Israelites by the Babylonians in 587/6
48 tn Heb “showers of blessing.” Abundant rain, which in turn produces fruit and crops (v. 27), is a covenantal blessing for obedience (Lev 26:4).
49 tn Heb “way.”
50 tn Or “spirit.” This is likely an allusion to Gen 2 and God’s breath which creates life.
51 sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.
52 tn Heb “give them.”
53 tn The Hebrew text is framed as a rhetorical question: “will you not take notice?”
54 tn Heb “by the hand of my servants.”
55 tn The Hebrew text adds “years” here, but this is probably a scribal gloss on the preceding phrase. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:201.
56 tn Heb “cause to return.”
57 sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.
58 sn Evictions of the less fortunate by the powerful are described in 1 Kgs 21:1-16; Jer 22:1-5, 13-17; Ezek 22:25.
59 tn Heb “strayed off.”
