Discovery BoxEzekiel 7:11 
Context7:11 Violence 1 has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left 2 – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. 3
Ezekiel 20:18
Context20:18 “‘But I said to their children 4 in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, 5 nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:3
Context23:3 They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers 6 fondled their virgin nipples there.
Ezekiel 23:47
Context23:47 That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses. 7
Ezekiel 29:7
Context29:7 when they grasped you with their hand, 8 you broke and tore 9 their shoulders,
and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady. 10
Ezekiel 39:26
Context39:26 They will bear their shame for all their unfaithful acts against me, when they live securely on their land with no one to make them afraid.
Ezekiel 44:28
Context44:28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property. 11
1 tn Heb “the violence.”
2 tc The LXX reads “he will crush the wicked rod without confusion or haste.”
tn The verb has been supplied for the Hebrew text to clarify the sense.
3 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
4 tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.
5 tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.
6 tn In the Hebrew text the subject is left unstated and must be supplied from the context.
7 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”
8 tn The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) has “by your hand,” but the marginal reading (Qere) has simply “by the hand.” The LXX reads “with their hand.”
9 tn Or perhaps “dislocated.”
10 tn Heb “you caused to stand for them all their hips.” An emendation which switches two letters but is supported by the LXX yields the reading “you caused all their hips to shake.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:103. In 2 Kgs 18:21 and Isa 36:6 trusting in the Pharaoh is compared to leaning on a staff. The oracle may reflect Hophra’s attempt to aid Jerusalem (Jer 37:5-8).
11 sn See Num 18:20; Deut 10:9; 18:2; Josh 13:33; 18:7.
