Yehezkiel 9:7

9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

Yehezkiel 21:12

21:12 Cry out and moan, son of man,

for it is wielded against my people;

against all the princes of Israel.

They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people.

Therefore, strike your thigh. ¹ 

Yehezkiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ²  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ³  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 32:18

32:18 “Son of man, wail ⁴  over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down; ⁵  bring ⁶  her ⁷  and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 32:23

32:23 Their ⁸  graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. ⁹  Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

Yehezkiel 32:26

32:26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. ¹⁰  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Yehezkiel 33:4

33:4 but there is one who hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning. Then the sword comes and sweeps him away. He will be responsible for his own death. ¹¹ 

[21:12]  ¹ sn This physical action was part of an expression of grief. Cp. Jer. 31:19.

[28:23]  ² tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:23]  ³ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

[32:18]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death (Jer 9:17-19; Amos 5:16).

[32:18]  ⁵ sn Through this prophetic lament given by God himself, the prophet activates the judgment described therein. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:217, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:136-37.

[32:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “Bring him down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth below.” The verb “bring down” appears in the Hebrew text only once. Because the verb takes several objects here, the repetition of the verb in the translation improves the English style.

[32:18]  ⁷ tn This apparently refers to personified Egypt.

[32:23]  ⁸ tn Heb “whose.”

[32:23]  ⁹ tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.

[32:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).

[33:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “his blood will be on his own head.”