Ezekiel 2:8

2:8 As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”

Ezekiel 3:9

3:9 I have made your forehead harder than flint – like diamond! ¹  Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, ²  for they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 5:6

5:6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations ³  and the countries around her. ⁴  Indeed, they ⁵  have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

Ezekiel 8:6

8:6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people ⁶  of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!”

Ezekiel 9:6

9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

Ezekiel 16:5

16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; ⁷  you were thrown out into the open field ⁸  because you were detested on the day you were born.

Ezekiel 20:7

20:7 I said to them, “Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, ⁹  and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 24:24

24:24 Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’

Ezekiel 33:8

33:8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you must certainly die,’ ¹⁰  and you do not warn ¹¹  the wicked about his behavior, ¹²  the wicked man will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death. ¹³ 

Ezekiel 33:25

33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, ¹⁴  pray to ¹⁵  your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess ¹⁶  the land?

Ezekiel 33:31

33:31 They come to you in crowds, ¹⁷  and they sit in front of you as ¹⁸  my people. They hear your words, but do not obey ¹⁹  them. For they talk lustfully, ²⁰  and their heart is set on ²¹  their own advantage. ²² 

Ezekiel 36:36-37

36:36 Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken – and I will do it!’

36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: ²³  I will multiply their people like sheep. ²⁴ 

Ezekiel 45:9

45:9 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, ²⁵  declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 45:20

45:20 This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance; so you will make atonement for the temple.

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¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “diamond” is parallel to “iron” in Jer 17:1. The Hebrew uses two terms which are both translated at times as “flint,” but here one is clearly harder than the other. The translation “diamond” attempts to reflect this distinction in English.

² tn Heb “of their faces.”

³ sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3; Jonah 1:2.

⁴ tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”

⁵ sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.

⁶ tn Heb “house.”

⁷ sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10.

⁸ sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10.

⁹ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of his eyes, throw away.” The Pentateuch does not refer to the Israelites worshiping idols in Egypt, but Josh 24:14 appears to suggest that they did so.

¹⁰ tn The same expression occurs in Gen 2:17.

¹¹ tn Heb “and you do not speak to warn.”

¹² tn Heb “way.”

¹³ tn Heb “and his blood from your hand I will seek.”

¹⁴ sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).

¹⁵ tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “Will you possess?”

¹⁷ tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.

¹⁸ tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

¹⁹ tn Heb “do.”

²⁰ tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

²¹ tn Heb “goes after.”

²² tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.

²³ tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”

²⁴ sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”

²⁵ sn Evictions of the less fortunate by the powerful are described in 1 Kgs 21:1-16; Jer 22:1-5, 13-17; Ezek 22:25.