Discovery BoxEzekiel 6:4 
Context6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. 1
Ezekiel 9:5
Context9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, 2 “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare 3 anyone!
Ezekiel 9:7
Context9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.
Ezekiel 16:42
Context16:42 I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry.
Ezekiel 19:7
Context19:7 He broke down 4 their strongholds 5 and devastated their cities.
The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.
Ezekiel 21:26
Context21:26 this is what the sovereign Lord says:
Tear off the turban, 6
take off the crown!
Things must change! 7
Exalt the lowly,
bring down the proud! 8
Ezekiel 24:2
Context24:2 “Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege 9 to Jerusalem 10 this very day.
Ezekiel 26:4
Context26:4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil 11 from her and make her a bare rock.
Ezekiel 26:11
Context26:11 With his horses’ hoofs he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will tumble down to the ground.
Ezekiel 27:25
Context27:25 The ships of Tarshish 12 were the transports for your merchandise.
“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 30:16
Context30:16 I will ignite a fire in Egypt;
Syene 13 will writhe in agony,
Thebes will be broken down,
and Memphis will face enemies every day.
Ezekiel 31:7
Context31:7 It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches;
for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.
Ezekiel 31:17
Context31:17 Those who lived in its shade, its allies 14 among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.
Ezekiel 43:3
Context43:3 It was like the vision I saw when he 15 came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.
Ezekiel 46:3
Context46:3 The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
1 tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.
sn This verse is probably based on Lev 26:30 in which God forecasts that he will destroy their high places, cut off their incense altars, and set their corpses by the corpses of their idols.
2 tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”
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 tc The Hebrew text reads “knew,” but is apparently the result of a ר-ד (dalet-resh) confusion. For a defense of the emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. However, Allen retains the reading “widows” as the object of the verb, which he understands in the sense of “do harm to,” and translates the line: “He did harm to women by making them widows” (p. 282). The line also appears to be lacking a beat for the meter of the poem.
5 tc The Hebrew text reads “widows” instead of “strongholds,” apparently due to a confusion of ר (resh) and ל (lamed). L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:284) favors the traditional text, understanding “widows” in the sense of “women made widows.” D. I. Block, (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:602) also defends the Hebrew text, arguing that the image is that of a dominant male lion who takes over the pride and by copulating with the females lays claim to his predecessor’s “widows.”
6 tn Elsewhere in the Bible the turban is worn by priests (Exod 28:4, 37, 39; 29:6; 39:28, 31; Lev 8:9; 16:4), but here a royal crown is in view.
7 tn Heb “This not this.”
8 tn Heb “the high one.”
9 tn Heb “lean on, put pressure on.”
10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
11 tn Or “debris.”
12 tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.
13 tc The LXX reads “Syene,” which is Aswan in the south. The MT reads Sin, which has already been mentioned in v. 15.
14 tn Heb “its arm.”
15 tc Heb “I.” The reading is due to the confusion of yod (י, indicating a first person pronoun) and vav (ו, indicating a third person pronoun). A few medieval Hebrew
