Ezekiel 8:17

8:17 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! ¹ 

Ezekiel 23:25

23:25 I will direct ²  my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, ³  and your survivors will die ⁴  by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Ezekiel 31:16

31:16 I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. ⁵  Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.

Ezekiel 48:8

48:8 “Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles ⁶  wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.

¹ tn It is not clear what the practice of “holding a branch to the nose” indicates. A possible parallel is the Syrian relief of a king holding a flower to his nose as he worships the stars (ANEP 281). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:145-46. The LXX glosses the expression as “Behold, they are like mockers.”

² tn Heb “give.”

³ tn Heb “they will remove.”

⁴ tn Heb “fall.”

³ sn For the expression “going down to the pit,” see Ezek 26:20; 32:18, 24, 29.

⁴ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).