8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward 3 the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.
22:30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. 7
1 tn See Ezek 1:4.
2 tc The LXX lacks this phrase. Its absence from the LXX may be explained as a case of haplography resulting from homoioteleuton, skipping from כְּמַרְאֵה (kÿmar’eh) to מִמַּרְאֵה (mimmar’eh). On the other hand, the LXX presents a much more balanced verse structure when it is recognized that the final words of this verse belong in the next sentence.
3 tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”
4 tn Or “pattern.”
5 tn Heb “detestable.” The word is often used to describe the figures of foreign gods.
6 sn These engravings were prohibited in the Mosaic law (Deut 4:16-18).
7 tn Heb “I did not find.”