Discovery BoxEzekiel 3:7 
Context3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, 1 because they are not willing to listen to me, 2 for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. 3
Ezekiel 3:21
Context3:21 However, if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he 4 does not sin, he will certainly live because he was warned, and you will have saved your own life.”
Ezekiel 5:11
Context5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare 5 you.
Ezekiel 6:11
Context6:11 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, “Ah!” because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence. 6
Ezekiel 12:2
Context12:2 “Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. 7 They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, 8 because they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 13:10
Context13:10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” 9 when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, 10 they coat it with whitewash.
Ezekiel 14:23
Context14:23 They will console you when you see their behavior and their deeds, because you will know that it was not without reason that I have done everything which I have done in it, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 16:5
Context16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; 11 you were thrown out into the open field 12 because you were detested on the day you were born.
Ezekiel 16:31
Context16:31 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment. 13
Ezekiel 17:20
Context17:20 I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.
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. 14 He will bear the responsibility for his own death. 15
Ezekiel 20:26
Context20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices 16 – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire 17 – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ 18
Ezekiel 20:43
Context20:43 And there you will remember your conduct 19 and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves 20 because of all the evil deeds you have done.
Ezekiel 21:4
Context21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone 21 from the south 22 to the north.
Ezekiel 21:24
Context21:24 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have brought up 23 your own guilt by uncovering your transgressions and revealing your sins through all your actions, for this reason you will be taken by force. 24
Ezekiel 23:35
Context23:35 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, 25 you must bear now the punishment 26 for your obscene conduct and prostitution.”
Ezekiel 26:2
Context26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre 27 has said about Jerusalem, 28 ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, 29 now that she 30 has been destroyed,’
Ezekiel 28:17
Context28:17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor.
I threw you down to the ground;
I placed you before kings, that they might see you.
Ezekiel 29:9
Context29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”
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 33:13
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 39:28
Context39:28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will not leave any of them in exile 31 any longer.
Ezekiel 44:12
Context44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle 32 to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow 33 concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible 34 for their sin.
1 sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.
2 sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.
3 tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”
4 tn Heb “the righteous man.”
5 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.
6 sn By the sword and by famine and by pestilence. A similar trilogy of punishments is mentioned in Lev 26:25-26. See also Jer 14:12; 21:9; 27:8, 13; 29:18).
7 sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).
8 sn This verse is very similar to Isa 6:9-10.
9 tn Or “peace.”
10 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.
11 sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10.
12 sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10.
13 tn The Hebrew term, which also occurs in vv. 34 and 41 of this chapter, always refers to the payment of a prostitute (Deut 23:19; Isa 23:17; Hos 9:1; Mic 1:7).
14 tn Heb “be put to death.” The translation follows an alternative reading that appears in several ancient textual witnesses.
15 tn Heb “his blood will be upon him.”
16 tn Or “gifts.”
17 sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).
18 sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.
19 tn Heb “ways.”
20 tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”
21 tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).
22 tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.
23 tn Heb “caused to be remembered.”
24 tn Heb “Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt when your transgressions are uncovered so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds – because you are remembered, by the hand you will be seized.”
25 tn Heb “and you cast me behind your back.” The expression pictures her rejection of the Lord (see 1 Kgs 14:9).
26 tn The word “punishment” is not in the Hebrew text but is demanded by the context.
27 sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.
28 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
29 tn Heb “I will be filled.”
30 sn That is, Jerusalem.
31 tn Heb “there,” referring to the foreign nations to which they were exiled. The translation makes the referent clear.
32 tn Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30).
33 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
34 tn Heb “will bear.”
