Yehezkiel 6:14

6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them ¹  and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, ²  in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Yehezkiel 17:16

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ³  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Yehezkiel 48:15

48:15 “The remainder, one and two-thirds miles ⁴  in width and eight and a quarter miles ⁵  in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

[6:14]  ¹ sn I will stretch out my hand against them is a common expression in the book of Ezekiel (14:9, 13; 16:27; 25:7; 35:3).

[6:14]  ² tc The Vulgate reads the name as “Riblah,” a city north of Damascus. The MT reads Diblah, a city otherwise unknown. The letters resh (ר) and dalet (ד) may have been confused in the Hebrew text. The town of Riblah was in the land of Hamath (2 Kgs 23:33) which represented the northern border of Israel (Ezek 47:14).

[17:16]  ³ tn Heb “place.”

[48:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).

[48:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).