translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET study note

text: Objects could be carried in the end of a garment ( Hag 2:12 ).


text: The nations are subject to a natural law according to ; see also Amos 1:3-2:3 ; Jonah 1:2 .


text: One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6 a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.


text: You are more arrogant than the nations around you . Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27 ; 2 Kgs 21:11 ; Jer 2:11 .


text: 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.


text: Judgment by plague , famine , and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13 ; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15 .