Discovery BoxEzekiel 6:14 
Context6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them 1 and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, 2 in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 7:4
Context7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 3 you. 4 For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, 5 and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. 6 Then you will know that I am the Lord!
Ezekiel 11:5
Context11:5 Then the Spirit of the Lord came 7 upon me and said to me, “Say: This is what the Lord says: ‘This is what you are thinking, 8 O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds. 9
Ezekiel 11:12
Context11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”
Ezekiel 12:16
Context12:16 But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 13:14
Context13:14 I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, 10 and you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:21
Context13:21 I will tear off your headbands and rescue my people from your power; 11 they will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:8
Context14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword 12 and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:23
Context14:23 They will console you when you see their behavior and their deeds, because you will know that it was not without reason that I have done everything which I have done in it, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 15:7
Context15:7 I will set 13 my face against them – although they have escaped from the fire, 14 the fire will still consume them! Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.
Ezekiel 17:21
Context17:21 All the choice men 15 among his troops will die 16 by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 20:26
Context20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices 17 – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire 18 – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ 19
Ezekiel 20:44
Context20:44 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for the sake of my reputation and not according to your wicked conduct and corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 22:22
Context22:22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on 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; 20 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.”
Ezekiel 28:23-24
Context28:23 I will send a plague into the city 21 and bloodshed into its streets;
the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it 22 from every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers 23 or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. 24 Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 29:9
Context29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”
Ezekiel 29:16
Context29:16 It will never again be Israel’s source of confidence, but a reminder of how they sinned by turning to Egypt for help. 25 Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 29:21
Context29:21 On that day I will make Israel powerful, 26 and I will give you the right to be heard 27 among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 32:15
Context32:15 When I turn the land of Egypt into desolation
and the land is destitute of everything that fills it,
when I strike all those who live in it,
then they will know that I am the Lord.’
Ezekiel 35:12
Context35:12 Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”
Ezekiel 36:36
Context36:36 Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken – and I will do it!’
Ezekiel 36:38
Context36:38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem 28 during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 37:6
Context37:6 I will put tendons 29 on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath 30 in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 37:14
Context37:14 I will place my breath 31 in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord – I have spoken and I will act, declares the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 39:7
Context39:7 “‘I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. 32
Ezekiel 39:28
Context39:28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will not leave any of them in exile 33 any longer.
1 sn I will stretch out my hand against them is a common expression in the book of Ezekiel (14:9, 13; 16:27; 25:7; 35:3).
2 tc The Vulgate reads the name as “Riblah,” a city north of Damascus. The MT reads Diblah, a city otherwise unknown. The letters resh (ר) and dalet (ד) may have been confused in the Hebrew text. The town of Riblah was in the land of Hamath (2 Kgs 23:33) which represented the northern border of Israel (Ezek 47:14).
3 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.
4 tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.
5 tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”
6 tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”
7 tn Heb “fell.”
8 tn The Hebrew verb commonly means “to say,” but may also mean “to think” (see also v. 3).
9 tn Heb “I know the steps of your spirits.”
10 tn Or “within it,” referring to the city of Jerusalem.
11 tn Heb “from your hand(s).” This refers to their power over the people.
12 tn Heb “proverbs.”
13 tn The word translated “set” is the same Hebrew word translated as “provide” in the previous verse.
14 sn This escape refers to the exile of Ezekiel and others in 597
15 tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhyv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharyv).
16 tn Heb “fall.”
17 tn Or “gifts.”
18 sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).
19 sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.
20 tn Heb “your mouth will open.”
21 tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22 tn Heb “by a sword against it.”
23 sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.
24 tn Heb “and there will not be for the house of Israel a brier that pricks and a thorn that inflicts pain from all the ones who surround them, the ones who scorn them.”
25 tn Heb “reminding of iniquity when they turned after them.”
26 tn Heb “I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel.” The horn is used as a figure for military power in the OT (Ps 92:10). A similar expression is made about the Davidic dynasty in Ps 132:17.
27 tn Heb “I will grant you an open mouth.”
28 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
29 tn The exact physiological meaning of the term is uncertain. In addition to v. 8, the term occurs only in Gen 32:33; Job 10:11; 40:17; and Jer 48:4.
30 tn Or “a spirit.”
31 tn Or “spirit.” This is likely an allusion to Gen 2 and God’s breath which creates life.
32 sn The basic sense of the word “holy” is “set apart from that which is commonplace, special, unique.” The
33 tn Heb “there,” referring to the foreign nations to which they were exiled. The translation makes the referent clear.
