Discovery BoxEzekiel 5:15 
Context5:15 You will be 1 an object of scorn and taunting, 2 a prime example of destruction 3 among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. 4 I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 14:8
Context14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword 5 and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:57
Context16:57 before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram 6 and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines – those all around you who despise you.
Ezekiel 24:24
Context24:24 Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 24:27
Context24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; 7 you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”
1 tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew
2 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).
3 tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).
4 tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.
5 tn Heb “proverbs.”
6 tc So MT, LXX, and Vulgate; many Hebrew
7 tn Heb “your mouth will open.”
