Ezekiel 14:3

14:3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity ¹  right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek ²  me?

Ezekiel 14:16

14:16 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate.

Ezekiel 14:18

14:18 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters – they would save only their own lives.

Ezekiel 17:21

17:21 All the choice men ³  among his troops will die ⁴  by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 21:31

21:31 I will pour out my anger on you;

the fire of my fury I will blow on you.

I will hand you over to brutal men,

who are skilled in destruction.

Ezekiel 23:7

23:7 She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired ⁵  – with all their idols.

Ezekiel 23:23

23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, ⁶  Shoa, ⁷  and Koa, ⁸  and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, all of them governors and officials, officers and nobles, all of them riding on horses.

Ezekiel 23:42

23:42 The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her, ⁹  including all kinds of men; ¹⁰  even Sabeans ¹¹  were brought from the desert. The sisters ¹²  put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

Ezekiel 27:9

27:9 The elders of Gebal ¹³  and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; ¹⁴ 

all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise. ¹⁵ 

Ezekiel 30:12

30:12 I will dry up the waterways

and hand the land over to ¹⁶  evil men.

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

I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 39:14

39:14 They will designate men to scout continually ¹⁷  through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, ¹⁸  in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months.

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¹ tn Heb “the stumbling block of their iniquity.” This phrase is unique to the prophet Ezekiel.

² tn Or “I will not reveal myself to them.” The Hebrew word is used in a technical sense here of seeking an oracle from a prophet (2 Kgs 1:16; 3:11; 8:8).

³ tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhyv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharyv).

⁴ tn Heb “fall.”

⁵ tn Heb “lusted after.”

⁶ sn Pekod was the name of an Aramean tribe (known as Puqudu in Mesopotamian texts) that lived in the region of the Tigris River.

⁷ sn Shoa was the name of a nomadic people (the Sutu) that lived in Mesopotamia.

⁸ sn Koa was the name of another Mesopotamian people group (the Qutu).

⁹ tn Heb “(was) in her.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and men from the multitude of mankind.”

¹¹ tn An alternate reading is “drunkards.” Sheba is located in the area of modern day Yemen.

¹² tn Heb “they”; the referents (the sisters) have been specified in the translation for the sake of clarity.

¹³ sn Another Phoenician coastal city located between Sidon and Arvad.

¹⁴ tn Heb “strengthening damages.” Here “to strengthen” means to repair. The word for “damages” occurs several times in 1 Kgs 12 about some type of damage to the temple, which may have referred to or included cracks. Since the context describes Tyre in its glory, we do not expect this reference to damages to be of significant scale, even if there are repairmen. This may refer to using pitch to seal the seams of the ship, which had to be done periodically and could be considered routine maintenance rather than repair of damage.

¹⁵ sn The reference to “all the ships of the sea…within you” suggests that the metaphor is changing; previously Tyre had been described as a magnificent ship, but now the description shifts back to an actual city. The “ships of the sea” were within Tyre’s harbor. Verse 11 refers to “walls” and “towers” of the city.

¹⁶ tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “men of perpetuity.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and bury the travelers and those who remain on the surface of the ground.” The reference to “travelers” seems odd and is omitted in the LXX. It is probably an accidental duplication (see v. 11).