Yehezkiel 14:7

14:7 For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.

Yehezkiel 20:38

20:38 I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt ¹  against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 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.

Yehezkiel 28:13

28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. ⁵ 

Every precious stone was your covering,

the ruby, topaz, and emerald,

the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,

the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; ⁶ 

your settings and mounts were made of gold.

On the day you were created they were prepared.

Yehezkiel 33:11-12

33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior ⁷  and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! ⁸  Why should you die, O house of Israel?’

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, ⁹  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. ¹⁰  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. ¹¹  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness ¹²  if he sins.’ ¹³ 

Yehezkiel 33:24

33:24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’ ¹⁴ 

Yehezkiel 34:25

34:25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely ¹⁵  in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods. ¹⁶ 

Yehezkiel 36:20

36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’

[20:38]  ¹ tn See the note at 2:3.

[23:25]  ² tn Heb “give.”

[23:25]  ³ tn Heb “they will remove.”

[23:25]  sn This method of punishment is attested among ancient Egyptian and Hittite civilizations. See W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:489.

[23:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “fall.”

[28:13]  ⁵ 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.

[28:13]  ⁶ 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.

[33:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “turn from his way.”

[33:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.

[33:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

[33:12]  ¹⁰ 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.

[33:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

[33:12]  ¹² tn Heb “by it.”

[33:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

[33:24]  ¹⁴ sn Outside of its seven occurrences in Ezekiel the term translated “possession” appears only in Exod 6:8 and Deut 33:4.

[34:25]  ¹⁵ tn The phrase “live securely” occurs in Ezek 28:26; 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26 as an expression of freedom from fear. It is a promised blessing resulting from obedience (see Lev 26:5-6).

[34:25]  ¹⁶ sn The woods were typically considered to be places of danger (Ps 104:20-21; Jer 5:6).