Discovery BoxEzekiel 7:27 
Context7:27 The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice 1 I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 11:1
Context11:1 A wind 2 lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people. 3
Ezekiel 12:19
Context12:19 Then say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.
Ezekiel 13:9
Context13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council 4 of my people, nor be written in the registry 5 of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 14:9
Context14:9 “‘As for the prophet, if he is made a fool by being deceived into speaking a prophetic word – I, the Lord, have made a fool of 6 that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.
Ezekiel 25:13
Context25:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, 7 and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die 8 by the sword.
Ezekiel 26:20
Context26:20 then I will bring you down to bygone people, 9 to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among 10 the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand 11 in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 33:6
Context33:6 But suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people. Then the sword comes and takes one of their lives. He is swept away for his iniquity, 12 but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person’s death.’ 13
Ezekiel 33:12
Context33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 14 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 15 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 16 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 17 if he sins.’ 18
Ezekiel 36:3
Context36:3 So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip 19 and slander among the people,
Ezekiel 36:11
Context36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. 20 I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. 21 Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 37:23
Context37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness 22 by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.
Ezekiel 38:8
Context38:8 After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, 23 with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people 24 were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.
Ezekiel 38:16
Context38:16 You will advance 25 against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself 26 through you, O Gog.
Ezekiel 38:20
Context38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake 27 at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs 28 will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
Ezekiel 42:14
Context42:14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”
Ezekiel 44:11
Context44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.
Ezekiel 44:15
Context44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok 29 who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 46:20
Context46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”
Ezekiel 47:22
Context47:22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 30
1 tn Heb “and by their judgments.”
2 tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.
3 sn The phrase officials of the people occurs in Neh 11:1; 1 Chr 21:2; 2 Chr 24:23.
4 tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the
5 tn The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).
6 tn The translation is uncertain due to difficulty both in determining the meaning of the verb’s stem and its conjugation in this context. In the Qal stem the basic meaning of the verbal root פָּתַה (patah) is “to be gullible, foolish.” The doubling stems (the Pual and Piel used in this verse) typically give such stative verbs a factitive sense, hence either “make gullible” (i.e., “entice”) or “make into a fool” (i.e., “to show to be a fool”). The latter represents the probable meaning of the term in Jer 20:7, 10 and is followed here (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:193; R. Mosis “Ez 14, 1-11 - ein Ruf zur Umkehr,” BZ 19 [1975]: 166-69 and ThWAT 4:829-31). In this view, if a prophet speaks when not prompted by God, he will be shown to be a fool, but this does not reflect negatively on the Lord because it is God who shows him to be a fool. Secondly, the verb is in the perfect conjugation and may be translated “I have made a fool of him” or “I have enticed him,” or to show determination (see IBHS 439-41 §27.2f and g), or in certain syntactical constructions as future. Any of these may be plausible if the doubling stems used are understood in the sense of “making a fool of.” But if understood as “to make gullible,” more factors come into play. As the Hebrew verbal form is a perfect, it is often translated as present perfect: “I have enticed.” In this case the Lord states that he himself enticed the prophet to cooperate with the idolaters. Such enticement to sin would seem to be a violation of God’s moral character, but sometimes he does use such deception and enticement to sin as a form of punishment against those who have blatantly violated his moral will (see, e.g., 2 Sam 24). If one follows this line of interpretation in Ezek 14:9, one would have to assume that the prophet had already turned from God in his heart. However, the context gives no indication of this. Therefore, it is better to take the perfect as indicating certitude and to translate it with the future tense: “I will entice.” In this case the Lord announces that he will judge the prophet appropriately. If a prophet allows himself to be influenced by idolaters, then the Lord will use deception as a form of punishment against that deceived prophet. A comparison with the preceding oracles also favors this view. In 14:4 the perfect of certitude is used for emphasis (see “I will answer”), though in v. 7 a participle is employed. For a fuller discussion of this text, see R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 23-25.
7 tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”
8 tn Heb “fall.”
9 tn Heb “to the people of antiquity.”
10 tn Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כְּ (kÿ, “like”), to בְּ (bÿ, “in, among”).
11 tn Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read “nor will you stand” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”
12 tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 8 and 9; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
13 tn Heb “his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.”
14 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
15 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.
16 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”
17 tn Heb “by it.”
18 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”
19 tn Heb “lip of the tongue.”
20 sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.
21 tn Heb “your beginning.”
22 tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.
23 tn Heb “from the sword.”
24 tn Heb “it.”
25 tn Heb “come up.”
26 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”
27 tn Or “tremble.”
28 tn The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14.
29 sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).
30 sn A similar attitude toward non-Israelites is found in Isa 56:3-8.
