They shall know that I am Jehovah. By this expressive formula Ezekiel intimates the moral effect which should be produced upon the nations of the earth, whether by beholding or by experiencing the Divine judgments (Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 6:13; Ezekiel 7:4, Ezekiel 7:9; Ezekiel 11:10, Ezekiel 11:12; Ezekiel 13:9, Ezekiel 13:14, Ezekiel 13:21, Ezekiel 13:23; Ezekiel 14:8; Ezekiel 15:7, et passim; cf.
Exodus 6:7; Exodus 7:1-25 :50 17; Exodus 29:46; Exodus 31:13; all of which passages belong to Wellhausen's grundschrift, which it is supposed had no existence in the time of Ezekiel).