Ezekiel 1:2

1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Ezekiel 4:1

Ominous Object Lessons

4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick 1  and set it in front of you. Inscribe 2  a city on it – Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 43:16

43:16 Now the altar hearth 3  is a perfect square, 21 feet 4  long and 21 feet wide.

1 sn Ancient Near Eastern bricks were 10 to 24 inches long and 6 to 13 1/2 inches wide.

2 tn Or perhaps “draw.”

3 tn The precise Hebrew word used here to refer to an “altar hearth” occurs only here in the OT.

4 tn Heb “twelve cubits” (i.e., 6.3 meters; the phrase occurs twice in this verse).