Discovery BoxEzekiel 5:13 
Context5:13 Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. 1 Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy 2 when I have fully vented my rage against them.
Ezekiel 6:13
Context6:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, 3 the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
Ezekiel 7:9
Context7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 4 you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, 5 and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you. 6
Ezekiel 7:27
Context7:27 The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice 7 I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 13:9
Context13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council 8 of my people, nor be written in the registry 9 of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 17:12
Context17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: 10 ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ 11 Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem 12 and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.
Ezekiel 17:24
Context17:24 All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord.
I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree.
I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout.
I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”
Ezekiel 20:38
Context20:38 I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt 13 against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 25:7
Context25:7 take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder 14 to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 28:22
Context28:22 Say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against you, 15 Sidon,
and I will magnify myself in your midst.
Then they will know that I am the Lord
when I execute judgments on her
and reveal my sovereign power 16 in her.
Ezekiel 28:26
Context28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely 17 when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”
Ezekiel 30:25
Context30:25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the Lord when I place my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon and he extends it against the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 34:27
Context34:27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
Ezekiel 35:15
Context35:15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you – you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom – all of it! Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 36:11
Context36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. 18 I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. 19 Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:23
Context36:23 I will magnify 20 my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.
Ezekiel 39:23
Context39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, 21 for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.
1 tn Or “calm myself.”
2 tn The Hebrew noun translated “jealousy” is used in the human realm to describe suspicion of adultery (Num 5:14ff.; Prov 6:34). Since Israel’s relationship with God was often compared to a marriage this term is appropriate here. The term occurs elsewhere in Ezekiel in 8:3, 5; 16:38, 42; 23:25.
3 sn By referring to every high hill…all the mountaintops…under every green tree and every leafy oak Ezekiel may be expanding on the phraseology of Deut 12:2 (see 1 Kgs 14:23; 2 Kgs 16:4; 17:10; Jer 2:20; 3:6, 13; 2 Chr 28:4).
4 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.
5 tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”
6 tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.
7 tn Heb “and by their judgments.”
8 tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the
9 tn The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).
10 tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.
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).
11 sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.
12 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
14 tc The translation here follows the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text. The consonantal text (Kethib) is meaningless.
15 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.
16 tn Or “reveal my holiness.” God’s “holiness” is fundamentally his transcendence as sovereign ruler of the world. The revelation of his authority and power through judgment is in view in this context.
17 sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.
18 sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.
19 tn Heb “your beginning.”
20 tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”
21 tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
