Ezekiel 16:16

16:16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his. 1 

Ezekiel 16:18

16:18 You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

Ezekiel 17:5

17:5 He took one of the seedlings 2  of the land,

placed it in a cultivated plot; 3 

a shoot by abundant water,

like a willow he planted it.

Ezekiel 19:5

19:5 “‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost.

She took another of her cubs 4  and made him a young lion.

Ezekiel 27:5

27:5 They crafted 5  all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; 6 

they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

Ezekiel 42:5

42:5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

1 tc The text as written in the MT is incomprehensible (“not coming [plural] and he will not”). Driver has suggested a copying error of similar-sounding words, specifically לֹא (lo’) for לוֹ (lo). The feminine participle בָאוֹת (va’ot) has also been read as the feminine perfect בָאת (va’t). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:228, n. 15.b, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:486, n. 137.

2 tn Heb “took of the seed of the land.” For the vine imagery, “seedling” is a better translation, though in its subsequent interpretation the “seed” refers to Zedekiah through its common application to offspring.

3 tn Heb “a field for seed.”

4 sn The identity of this second lion is unclear; the referent is probably Jehoiakim or Zedekiah. If the lioness is Hamutal, then Zedekiah is the lion described here.

5 tn Heb “built.”

6 tn Perhaps the hull or deck. The term is dual, so perhaps it refers to a double-decked ship.