17:4 He plucked off its topmost shoot;
he brought it to a land of merchants
and planted it in a city of traders.
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. 2
30:12 I will dry up the waterways
and hand the land over to 3 evil men.
I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.
I, the Lord, have spoken!
41:13 Then he measured the temple as 175 feet 4 long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet 5 long,
43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, 6
1 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws one’s attention to something. Sometimes it may be translated as a verb of perception; here it is treated as a particle that fits the context (so also in v. 5, but with a different English word).
2 tn Heb “I did not find.”
3 tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”
4 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
5 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
6 sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.