Discovery BoxEzekiel 5:7 
Context5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant 1 than the nations around you, 2 you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even 3 carried out the regulations of the nations around you!
Ezekiel 36:11
Context36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. 4 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. 5 Then you will know that I am the Lord.
1 tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.
2 sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.
3 tc Some Hebrew
4 sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.
5 tn Heb “your beginning.”
