Yehezkiel 9:2

9:2 Next, I noticed ¹  six men ²  coming from the direction of the upper gate ³  which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit ⁴  at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Yehezkiel 14:13

14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, ⁵  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

Yehezkiel 21:29

21:29 while seeing false visions for you

and reading lying omens for you ⁶  –

to place that sword ⁷  on the necks of the profane wicked, ⁸ 

whose day has come,

the time of final punishment.

Yehezkiel 23:25

23:25 I will direct ⁹  my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, ¹⁰  and your survivors will die ¹¹  by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Yehezkiel 24:21

24:21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary – the source of your confident pride, ¹²  the object in which your eyes delight, ¹³  and your life’s passion. ¹⁴  Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die ¹⁵  by the sword.

Yehezkiel 25:13

25:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, ¹⁶  and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die ¹⁷  by the sword.

Yehezkiel 33:27

33:27 “This is what you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die ¹⁸  by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

Yehezkiel 39:23

39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, ¹⁹  for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

[9:2]  ¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[9:2]  ² sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.

[9:2]  ³ sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.

[14:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”

[21:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.

[21:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:29]  ⁸ sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.

[23:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “give.”

[23:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they will remove.”

[23:25]  sn This method of punishment is attested among ancient Egyptian and Hittite civilizations. See W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:489.

[23:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “fall.”

[24:21]  ¹² tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”

[24:21]  ¹³ sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”) so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.

[24:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”

[24:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “fall.”

[25:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”

[25:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “fall.”

[33:27]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “fall.”

[39:23]  ¹⁹ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.