Ezekiel 2:4
2:4 The people 1 to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, 2 and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ 3
Ezekiel 17:14
17:14 so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.
Ezekiel 21:26
21:26 this is what the sovereign Lord says:
Tear off the turban, 4
take off the crown!
Things must change! 5
Exalt the lowly,
bring down the proud! 6
Ezekiel 33:14
33:14 Suppose I say to the wicked, ‘You must certainly die,’ but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right.
Ezekiel 34:19
34:19 As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!
Ezekiel 43:9
43:9 Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.
Ezekiel 44:18
44:18 Linen turbans will be on their heads and linen undergarments will be around their waists; they must not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat.
Ezekiel 44:25
44:25 “‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; 7 however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.
Ezekiel 44:27-28
44:27 On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.
44:28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property. 8
Ezekiel 45:13
45:13 “‘This is the offering you must offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley,
Ezekiel 47:14
47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; 9 this land will be assigned as your inheritance. 10
Ezekiel 48:20
48:20 The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles 11 square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.
1 tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son.
2 tc Heb “stern of face and hard of heart.” The phrases “stern of face” and “hard of heart” are lacking in the LXX.
3 tn The phrase “thus says [the Lord]” occurs 129 times in Ezekiel; the announcement is identical to the way messengers often introduced their messages (Gen 32:5; 45:9; Exod 5:10; Num 20:14; Judg 11:15).
4 tn Elsewhere in the Bible the turban is worn by priests (Exod 28:4, 37, 39; 29:6; 39:28, 31; Lev 8:9; 16:4), but here a royal crown is in view.
5 tn Heb “This not this.”
6 tn Heb “the high one.”
7 sn This law was part of the legal code for priests (Lev 21:1-3).
8 sn See Num 18:20; Deut 10:9; 18:2; Josh 13:33; 18:7.
9 sn Gen 15:9-21.
10 tn Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”
11 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).