Discovery BoxEzekiel 4:13 
Context4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations 1 where I will banish them.”
Ezekiel 6:7
Context6:7 The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the Lord. 2
Ezekiel 6:10
Context6:10 They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’ 3
Ezekiel 11:2
Context11:2 The Lord 4 said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.
Ezekiel 11:23
Context11:23 The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped 5 over the mountain east of it.
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 12:20
Context12:20 The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 14:5
Context14:5 I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’
Ezekiel 16:58
Context16:58 You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:62
Context16:62 I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 20:48
Context20:48 And everyone 6 will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”
Ezekiel 21:17
Context21:17 I too will clap my hands together,
I will exhaust my rage;
I the Lord have spoken.”
Ezekiel 22:16
Context22:16 You will be profaned within yourself 7 in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 24:1
Context24:1 The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month 8 :
Ezekiel 26:1
Context26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, 9 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 26:6
Context26:6 and her daughters 10 who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 29:1
Context29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, 11 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 30:3
Context30:3 For the day is near,
the day of the Lord is near;
it will be a day of storm clouds, 12
it will be a time of judgment 13 for the nations.
Ezekiel 30:8
Context30:8 They will know that I am the Lord
when I ignite a fire in Egypt
and all her allies are defeated. 14
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 32:17
Context32:17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, 15 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 35:4
Context35:4 I will lay waste your cities;
and you will become desolate.
Then you will know that I am the Lord!
Ezekiel 37:28
Context37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” 16
Ezekiel 43:5
Context43:5 Then a wind 17 lifted me up and brought me to the inner court; I watched 18 the glory of the Lord filling the temple. 19
Ezekiel 46:3
Context46:3 The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
1 sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).
2 sn The phrase you will know that I am the
3 tn Heb “not in vain did I speak to do to them this catastrophe.” The wording of the last half of v. 10 parallels God’s declaration after the sin of the golden calf (Exod 32:14).
4 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
5 tn Heb “stood.”
6 tn Heb “all flesh.”
7 tc Several ancient versions read the verb as first person, in which case the Lord refers to how his people’s sin brings disgrace upon him. For a defense of the Hebrew text, see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:712, n. 68, and M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:457-58.
tn The phrase “within yourself” is the same as the several previous occurrences of “within you” but adjusted to fit this clause which is the culmination of the series of indictments.
8 tn The date of this oracle was January 15, 588
9 tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.
sn April 23, 587
10 sn That is, the towns located inland that were under Tyre’s rule.
11 tn January 7, 587
12 tn Heb “a day of clouds.” The expression occurs also in Joel 2:2 and Zeph 1:15; it recalls the appearance of God at Mount Sinai (Exod 19:9, 16, 18).
13 tn Heb “a time.” The words “of judgment” have been added in the translation for clarification (see the following verses).
14 tn Heb “all who aid her are broken.”
15 tn March 17, 585
16 sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.
17 tn See note on “wind” in 2:2.
18 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
19 sn In 1 Kgs 8:10-11 we find a similar event with regard to Solomon’s temple. See also Exod 40:34-35. and Isa 6:4.
