Yehezkiel 11:7

11:7 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped ¹  in the midst of the city ²  are the meat, and this city ³  is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 17:12

17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ⁵  ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ ⁶  Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem ⁷  and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

[11:7]  ¹ tn Heb “placed.”

[11:7]  ² tn Heb “in its midst.”

[11:7]  ³ tn Heb “she/it.” See v. 3.

[11:7]  ⁴ tc Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).

[17:12]  ⁵ tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.

[17:12]  sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).

[17:12]  ⁶ sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.

[17:12]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.