Discovery BoxEzekiel 30:23 
Context30:23 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among foreign countries.
Ezekiel 22:15
Context22:15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. 1
Ezekiel 12:15
Context12:15 “Then they will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.
Ezekiel 20:23
Context20:23 I also swore 2 to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. 3
Ezekiel 30:26
Context30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 29:12
Context29:12 I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.
1 sn The ultimate purpose of divine judgment is to purify the covenant community of its sins.
2 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
3 sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.
