Ezekiel 2:2

2:2 As he spoke to me, 1  a wind 2  came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.

Ezekiel 3:15

3:15 I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, 3  who lived by the Kebar River. 4  I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days. 5 

Ezekiel 3:24

3:24 Then a wind 6  came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord 7  spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.

Ezekiel 24:1

The Boiling Pot

24:1 The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month 8 :

Ezekiel 29:1

A Prophecy Against Egypt

29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, 9  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 29:17

29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, 10  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 30:20

30:20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, 11  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 31:1

A Cedar in Lebanon

31:1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, 12  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 32:1

Lamentation over Pharaoh and Egypt

32:1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, 13  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 37:10

37:10 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army.

Ezekiel 43:3

43:3 It was like the vision I saw when he 14  came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.

1 tc The phrase “as he spoke to me” is absent from the LXX.

2 tn Or “spirit.” NIV has “the Spirit,” but the absence of the article in the Hebrew text makes this unlikely. Elsewhere in Ezekiel the Lord’s Spirit is referred to as “the Spirit of the Lord” (11:5; 37:1), “the Spirit of God” (11:24), or “my (that is, the Lord’s) Spirit” (36:27; 37:14; 39:29). Some identify the “spirit” of 2:2 as the spirit that energized the living beings, however, that “spirit” is called “the spirit” (1:12, 20) or “the spirit of the living beings” (1:20-21; 10:17). Still others see the term as referring to an impersonal “spirit” of strength or courage, that is, the term may also be understood as a disposition or attitude. The Hebrew word often refers to a wind in Ezekiel (1:4; 5:10, 12; 12:4; 13:11, 13; 17:10, 21; 19:12; 27:26; 37:9). In 37:5-10 a “breath” originates in the “four winds” and is associated with the Lord’s life-giving breath (see v. 14). This breath enters into the dry bones and gives them life. In a similar fashion the breath of 2:2 (see also 3:24) energizes paralyzed Ezekiel. Breath and wind are related. On the one hand it is a more normal picture to think of breath rather than wind entering someone, but since wind represents an external force it seems more likely for wind rather than breath to stand someone up (unless we should understand it as a disposition). It may be that one should envision the breath of the speaker moving like a wind to revive Ezekiel, helping him to regain his breath and invigorating him to stand. A wind also transports the prophet from one place to another (3:12, 14; 8:3; 11:1, 24; 43:5).

3 sn The name “Tel Abib” is a transliteration of an Akkadian term meaning “mound of the flood,” i.e., an ancient mound. It is not to be confused with the modern city of Tel Aviv in Israel.

4 tn Or “canal.”

5 sn A similar response to a divine encounter is found in Acts 9:8-9.

6 tn See the note on “wind” in 2:2.

7 tn Heb “he.”

8 tn The date of this oracle was January 15, 588 b.c.

9 tn January 7, 587 b.c.

10 sn April 26, 571 b.c.

11 tn April 29, 587 b.c.

12 sn June 21, 587 b.c.

13 sn This would be March 3, 585 b.c.

14 tc Heb “I.” The reading is due to the confusion of yod (י, indicating a first person pronoun) and vav (ו, indicating a third person pronoun). A few medieval Hebrew mss, Theodotion’s Greek version, and the Latin Vulgate support a third person pronoun here.