3:24 Then a wind 3 came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord 4 spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.
41:1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet 10 wide on each side.
41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick 11 of 10½ feet 12 high. 41:9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, 13 and the open area between the side chambers of the temple
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 tn See the note on “wind” in 2:2.
4 tn Heb “he.”
5 tn Heb “with all your scorn in (the) soul.”
6 tn The Hebrew text adds “the one threshold 10½ feet deep.” This is probably an accidental duplication of what precedes. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:517.
7 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
8 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
9 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
10 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
11 tn Heb “reed.”
12 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
13 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
14 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
15 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).