Discovery BoxEzekiel 5:17 
Context5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. 1 Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, 2 and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
Ezekiel 7:24
Context7:24 I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries 3 will be desecrated.
Ezekiel 12:13
Context12:13 But I will throw my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans 4 (but he will not see it), 5 and there he will die. 6
Ezekiel 14:17
Context14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.
Ezekiel 17:20
Context17:20 I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.
Ezekiel 20:6
Context20:6 On that day I swore 7 to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out 8 for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, 9 the most beautiful of all lands.
Ezekiel 20:15
Context20:15 I also swore 10 to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
Ezekiel 20:34
Context20:34 I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!
Ezekiel 20:41
Context20:41 When I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, I will accept you along with your soothing aroma. I will display my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 23:22
Context23:22 “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 11 I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side:
Ezekiel 26:3
Context26:3 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, 12 I am against you, 13 O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezekiel 26:7
Context26:7 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note that 14 I am about to bring King Nebuchadrezzar 15 of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north, with horses, chariots, and horsemen, an army and hordes of people.
Ezekiel 26:19
Context26:19 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging 16 waters overwhelm you,
Ezekiel 28:7
Context28:7 I am about to bring foreigners 17 against you, the most terrifying of nations.
They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, 18
and they will defile your splendor.
Ezekiel 29:14
Context29:14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back 19 to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.
Ezekiel 33:2
Context33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, 20 and say to them, ‘Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.
Ezekiel 34:16
Context34:16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!
Ezekiel 34:26
Context34:26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing. 21
Ezekiel 37:12
Context37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:21
Context37:21 Then tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.
Ezekiel 38:4
Context38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, 22 all of them armed with swords.
Ezekiel 38:17
Context38:17 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants 23 the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days 24 that I would bring you against them?
Ezekiel 39:2
Context39:2 I will turn you around and drag you along; 25 I will lead you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 44:7
Context44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate 26 it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You 27 have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
1 tn Heb “will bereave you.”
2 tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.
3 sn Or “their holy places” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV).
4 tn Or “Babylonians” (NCV, NLT).
sn The Chaldeans were a group of people in the country south of Babylon from which Nebuchadnezzar came. The Chaldean dynasty his father established became the name by which the Babylonians are regularly referred to in the book of Jeremiah, while Jeremiah’s contemporary, Ezekiel, uses both terms.
5 sn He will not see it. This prediction was fulfilled in 2 Kgs 25:7 and Jer 52:11, which recount how Zedekiah was blinded before being deported to Babylon.
6 sn There he will die. This was fulfilled when King Zedekiah died in exile (Jer 52:11).
7 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”
8 tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”
9 sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).
10 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
11 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
12 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.
13 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. The Hebrew text switches to a second feminine singular form here, indicating that personified Jerusalem is addressed (see vv. 5-6a). The address to Jerusalem continues through v. 15. In vv. 16-17 the second masculine plural is used, as the people are addressed.
14 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something.
15 tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an an “r” rather than an “n.”
16 tn Heb “many.”
17 sn This is probably a reference to the Babylonians.
18 tn Heb “they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.”
19 tc Thus the Masoretic Text. The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as though the Hebrew read “cause to inhabit.”
20 tn Heb “sons of your people.”
21 tn Heb “showers of blessing.” Abundant rain, which in turn produces fruit and crops (v. 27), is a covenantal blessing for obedience (Lev 26:4).
22 sn The Hebrew text mentions two different types of shields here.
23 tn Heb “by the hand of my servants.”
24 tn The Hebrew text adds “years” here, but this is probably a scribal gloss on the preceding phrase. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:201.
25 tn The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT. An apparent cognate in the Ethiopic language means “walk along.” For a discussion of the research on this verb, see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:460.
26 tn Heb “to desecrate.”
27 tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”
