Discovery BoxEzekiel 7:19 
Context7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. 1 Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. 2 They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth 3 was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. 4
Ezekiel 12:3
Context12:3 “Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, 5 although they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 12:7
Context12:7 So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage 6 on my shoulder while they watched.
Ezekiel 20:5
Context20:5 and say to them:
“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore 7 to the descendants 8 of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore 9 to them, “I am the Lord your God.”
Ezekiel 20:31
Context20:31 When you present your sacrifices 10 – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, 11 O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! 12
Ezekiel 22:4
Context22:4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; 13 the end of your years has come. 14 Therefore I will make 15 you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.
Ezekiel 24:25
Context24:25 “And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take 16 from them their stronghold – their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives, 17 as well as their sons and daughters: 18
Ezekiel 27:27
Context27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,
your ship’s carpenters, 19 your merchants,
and all your fighting men within you,
along with all your crew who are in you,
will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.
Ezekiel 28:13
Context28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. 20
Every precious stone was your covering,
the ruby, topaz, and emerald,
the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,
the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; 21
your settings and mounts were made of gold.
On the day you were created they were prepared.
Ezekiel 31:15
Context31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it 22 went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. 23 I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.
Ezekiel 39:11
Context39:11 “‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog. 24
Ezekiel 43:18
Context43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, 25
1 tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.
3 tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).
4 tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).
5 tn Heb “see.” This plays on the uses of “see” in v. 2. They will see his actions with their eyes and perhaps they will “see” with their mind, that is, understand or grasp the point.
6 tn The words “my baggage” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied from the context.
7 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
8 tn Heb “seed.”
9 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
10 tn Or “gifts.”
11 tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”
12 tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”
13 tn Heb “you have brought near your days.” The expression “bring near your days” appears to be an adaptation of the idiom “days draw near,” which is used to indicate that an event, such as death, is imminent (see Gen 27:41; 47:29; Deut 31:14; 1 Kgs 2:1; Ezek 12:23). Here “your days” probably refers to the days of the personified city’s life, which was about to come to an end through God’s judgment.
14 tn Heb “and you have come to your years.” This appears to mean that she has arrived at the time when her years (i.e., life) would end, though it may mean that her years of punishment will begin. Because “day” and “time” are so closely associated in the immediate context (see 21:25, 29) some prefer to emend the text and read “you have brought near your time.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:31, as well as the translator’s note on verse 3.
15 tn The Hebrew verb is a prophetic perfect, emphasizing that the action is as good as done from the speaker’s perspective.
16 tn Heb “(Will) it not (be) in the day I take?”
17 tn Heb “the uplifting of their soul.” According to BDB 672 s.v. מַשָּׂא 2, the term “uplifting” refers to “that to which they lift up their soul, their heart’s desire.” However, this text is the only one listed for this use. It seems more likely that the term has its well-attested nuance of “burden, load,” here and refers to that which weighs them down emotionally and is a constant source of concern or worry.
18 tn In the Hebrew text there is no conjunction before “their sons and daughters.” For this reason one might assume that the preceding descriptive phrases refer to the sons and daughters, but verse 21 suggests otherwise. The descriptive phrases appear to refer to the “stronghold,” which parallels “my sanctuary” in verse 21. The children constitute a separate category.
19 tn Heb “your repairers of damage.” See v. 9.
20 sn The imagery of the lament appears to draw upon an extrabiblical Eden tradition about the expulsion of the first man (see v. 14 and the note there) from the garden due to his pride. The biblical Eden tradition speaks of cherubs placed as guardians at the garden entrance following the sin of Adam and Eve (Gen 3:24), but no guardian cherub like the one described in verse 14 is depicted or mentioned in the biblical account. Ezekiel’s imagery also appears to reflect Mesopotamian and Canaanite mythology at certain points. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:119-20.
21 tn The exact identification of each gemstone is uncertain. The list should be compared to that of the priest in Exod 28:17-20, which lists twelve stones in rows of three. The LXX apparently imports the Exod 28 list. See reference to the types of stones in L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.
22 tn Or “he.”
23 tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.
24 tn The name means “horde of Gog.”
25 sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.
