Yehezkiel 16:34

16:34 You were different from other prostitutes ¹  because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!

Yehezkiel 20:1

Israel’s Rebellion

20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, ²  some of the elders ³  of Israel came to seek ⁴  the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.

Yehezkiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ⁵  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ⁶  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ⁷  the most beautiful of all lands.

Yehezkiel 20:42

20:42 Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore ⁸  to give to your fathers.

Yehezkiel 21:4

21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone ⁹  from the south ¹⁰  to the north.

Yehezkiel 21:21

21:21 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork ¹¹  in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: ¹²  He shakes arrows, he consults idols, ¹³  he examines ¹⁴  animal livers. ¹⁵ 

Yehezkiel 22:30

22:30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. ¹⁶ 

Yehezkiel 30:11

30:11 He and his people with him,

the most terrifying of the nations, ¹⁷ 

will be brought there to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with corpses.

[16:34]  ¹ tn Heb “With you it was opposite of women in your prostitution.”

[20:1]  ² sn The date would be August 14th, 591 b.c. The seventh year is the seventh year of Jehoiachin’s exile.

[20:1]  ³ tn Heb “men from the elders.”

[20:1]  ⁴ tn See the note at 14:3.

[20:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

[20:6]  ⁶ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

[20:6]  ⁷ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

[20:42]  ⁸ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[21:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

[21:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

[21:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “mother.”

[21:21]  ¹² sn Mesopotamian kings believed that the gods revealed the future through omens. They employed various divination techniques, some of which are included in the list that follows. A particularly popular technique was the examination and interpretation of the livers of animals. See R. R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel, 90-110.

[21:21]  ¹³ tn This word refers to personal idols that were apparently used for divination purposes (Gen 31:19; 1 Sam 19:13, 16).

[21:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “sees.”

[21:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the liver.”

[22:30]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I did not find.”

[30:11]  ¹⁷ tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).