Yehezkiel 5:2

5:2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

Yehezkiel 5:12

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ¹  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ²  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Yehezkiel 6:8

6:8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. ³ 

Yehezkiel 12:14

12:14 All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.

Yehezkiel 20:23

20:23 I also swore ⁴  to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 22:15

22:15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 36:19

36:19 I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.

[5:12]  ¹ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

[5:12]  ² sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

[6:8]  ³ tn Heb “when you have fugitives from the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the lands.”

[20:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:23]  ⁵ sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.

[22:15]  ⁶ sn The ultimate purpose of divine judgment is to purify the covenant community of its sins.