Ezekiel 1:16

1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their construction ¹  was like gleaming jasper, ²  and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel. ³ 

Ezekiel 19:7

19:7 He broke down ⁴  their strongholds ⁵  and devastated their cities.

The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

Ezekiel 30:12

30:12 I will dry up the waterways

and hand the land over to ⁶  evil men.

I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 41:5

41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple ⁷  as 10½ feet, ⁸  and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, ⁹  all around the temple.

Ezekiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 46:6

46:6 On the day of the new moon he will offer ¹¹  an unblemished young bull, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.

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¹ tc This word is omitted from the LXX.

² tn Heb “Tarshish stone.” The meaning of this term is uncertain. The term has also been translated “topaz” (NEB); “beryl” (KJV, NASB, NRSV); or “chrysolite” (RSV, NIV).

³ tn Or “like a wheel at right angles to another wheel.” Some envision concentric wheels here, while others propose “a globe-like structure in which two wheels stand at right angles” (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:33-34). The description given in v. 17 favors the latter idea.

⁴ tc The Hebrew text reads “knew,” but is apparently the result of a ר-ד (dalet-resh) confusion. For a defense of the emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. However, Allen retains the reading “widows” as the object of the verb, which he understands in the sense of “do harm to,” and translates the line: “He did harm to women by making them widows” (p. 282). The line also appears to be lacking a beat for the meter of the poem.

⁵ tc The Hebrew text reads “widows” instead of “strongholds,” apparently due to a confusion of ר (resh) and ל (lamed). L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:284) favors the traditional text, understanding “widows” in the sense of “women made widows.” D. I. Block, (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:602) also defends the Hebrew text, arguing that the image is that of a dominant male lion who takes over the pride and by copulating with the females lays claim to his predecessor’s “widows.”

⁶ tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”

⁷ tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.

⁸ tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

⁹ tn Heb “four cubits” (2.1 meters).

¹⁰ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

¹¹ tn The phrase “he will offer” is not in the Hebrew text but is warranted from the context.