“‘A sword, a sword is sharpened,
and also polished.
24:9 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:
Woe to the city of bloodshed!
I will also make the pile high.
1 tc Heb “each had two wings covering and each had two wings covering,” a case of dittography. On the analogy of v. 11 and the support of the LXX, which reads the same for v. 11 and this verse, one should perhaps read “each had two wings touching another being and each had two wings covering.”
2 sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).
3 tn Heb “to become a sign between me and them.”
4 tn Or “set them apart.” The last phrase of verse 12 appears to be a citation of Exod 31:13.
5 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
6 sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.
7 tn Heb “its arm.”