Ezekiel 1:12

1:12 Each moved straight ahead ¹  – wherever the spirit ²  would go, they would go, without turning as they went.

Ezekiel 4:17

4:17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. ³ 

Ezekiel 11:18

11:18 “When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

Ezekiel 22:10

22:10 They have sex with their father’s wife within you; ⁴  they violate women during their menstrual period within you. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 23:38

23:38 Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day ⁶  they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.

Ezekiel 27:6

27:6 They made your oars from oaks of Bashan;

they made your deck ⁷  with cypresses ⁸  from the Kittean isles. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 43:26

43:26 For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 44:16

44:16 They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

Ezekiel 44:20

44:20 “‘They must not shave their heads ¹¹  nor let their hair grow long; ¹²  they must only trim their heads.

Ezekiel 46:10

46:10 When they come in, the prince will come in with them, and when they go out, he will go out.

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¹ tn See the note on “straight ahead” in v. 9.

² tn Or “wind.”

³ tn Or “in their punishment.” Ezek 4:16-17 alludes to Lev 26:26, 39. The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here, 3:18, 19; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

⁴ tn Heb “the nakedness of a father one uncovers within you.” The ancient versions read the verb as plural (“they uncover”). If the singular is retained, it must be taken as indefinite and representative of the entire group. The idiomatic expression “uncover the nakedness” refers here to sexual intercourse (cf. Lev 18:6). To uncover a father’s nakedness could include sexual relations with one’s own mother (Lev 18:7), but more likely it refers to having intercourse with another wife of one’s father, such as a stepmother (Lev 18:8; cf. Gen 35:22; 49:4).

⁵ tn Heb “(one who is) unclean due to the impurity they humble within you.” The use of the verb “to humble” suggests that these men forced themselves upon women during menstruation. Having sexual relations with a woman during her period was forbidden by the Law (Lev 18:19; 20:18).

⁶ tn Heb “in that day.”

⁷ tn Or “hull.”

⁸ tc The Hebrew reads “Your deck they made ivory, daughter of Assyria.” The syntactically difficult “ivory” is understood here as dittography and omitted, though some construe this to refer to ivory inlays. “Daughter of Assyria” is understood here as improper word division and the vowels repointed as “cypresses.”

⁹ tn Heb “from the coastlands (or islands) of Kittim,” generally understood to be a reference to the island of Cyprus, where the Phoenicians had a trading colony on the southeast coast. Many modern English versions have “Cyprus” (CEV, TEV), “the coastlands of Cyprus” (NASB), “the coasts of Cyprus” (NIV, NRSV), or “the southern coasts of Cyprus” (NLT).

sn The Kittean isles is probably a reference to southeast Cyprus where the Phoenicians had a colony.

¹⁰ tn Heb “fill its hands.”

¹¹ sn The shaving of the head was associated with mourning (Ezek 7:18).

¹² sn Letting the hair grow was associated with the taking of a vow (Num 6:5; Acts 21:23-26).