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 20:37
Context20:37 I will make you pass under 4 the shepherd’s staff, 5 and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
Ezekiel 29:6
Context29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord
because they were a reed staff 6 for the house of Israel;
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 This is the same Hebrew verb used to describe the passing of the children through the fire.
5 sn The metaphor may be based in Lev 27:32 (see also Jer 33:13; Matt 25:32-33). A shepherd would count his sheep as they passed beneath his staff.
