Discovery BoxEzekiel 4:3 
Context4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan 1 and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign 2 for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 5:1
Context5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. 3 Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. 4 Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.
Ezekiel 5:12
Context5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. 5 A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, 6 and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 7:9
Context7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 7 you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, 8 and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you. 9
Ezekiel 11:15
Context11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, 10 your relatives, 11 and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem 12 have said, ‘They have gone 13 far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’
Ezekiel 13:20
Context13:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note 14 that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives 15 like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.
Ezekiel 16:43
Context16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, 16 declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
Ezekiel 22:4
Context22:4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; 17 the end of your years has come. 18 Therefore I will make 19 you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.
Ezekiel 26:10
Context26:10 He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. 20 Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city’s broken walls. 21
Ezekiel 28:13
Context28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. 22
Every precious stone was your covering,
the ruby, topaz, and emerald,
the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,
the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; 23
your settings and mounts were made of gold.
On the day you were created they were prepared.
Ezekiel 35:11
Context35:11 therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.
1 tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.
2 tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.
3 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
4 tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”
5 sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.
6 sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.
7 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.
8 tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”
9 tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.
10 tc The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.
11 tc The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ (gÿ’ullatekha, “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ (galutekha) or having read the א (aleph) as an internal mater lectionis for holem.
12 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
13 tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).
14 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
15 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”
16 tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”
17 tn Heb “you have brought near your days.” The expression “bring near your days” appears to be an adaptation of the idiom “days draw near,” which is used to indicate that an event, such as death, is imminent (see Gen 27:41; 47:29; Deut 31:14; 1 Kgs 2:1; Ezek 12:23). Here “your days” probably refers to the days of the personified city’s life, which was about to come to an end through God’s judgment.
18 tn Heb “and you have come to your years.” This appears to mean that she has arrived at the time when her years (i.e., life) would end, though it may mean that her years of punishment will begin. Because “day” and “time” are so closely associated in the immediate context (see 21:25, 29) some prefer to emend the text and read “you have brought near your time.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:31, as well as the translator’s note on verse 3.
19 tn The Hebrew verb is a prophetic perfect, emphasizing that the action is as good as done from the speaker’s perspective.
20 tn Heb “From the abundance of his horses he will cover you (with) their dust.”
21 tn Heb “like those who enter a breached city.”
22 sn The imagery of the lament appears to draw upon an extrabiblical Eden tradition about the expulsion of the first man (see v. 14 and the note there) from the garden due to his pride. The biblical Eden tradition speaks of cherubs placed as guardians at the garden entrance following the sin of Adam and Eve (Gen 3:24), but no guardian cherub like the one described in verse 14 is depicted or mentioned in the biblical account. Ezekiel’s imagery also appears to reflect Mesopotamian and Canaanite mythology at certain points. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:119-20.
23 tn The exact identification of each gemstone is uncertain. The list should be compared to that of the priest in Exod 28:17-20, which lists twelve stones in rows of three. The LXX apparently imports the Exod 28 list. See reference to the types of stones in L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.
