Ezekiel 3:18

3:18 When I say to the wicked, “You will certainly die,” ¹  and you do not warn him – you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked deed and wicked lifestyle so that he may live – that wicked person will die for his iniquity, ²  but I will hold you accountable for his death. ³ 

Ezekiel 11:15

11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, ⁴  your relatives, ⁵  and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem ⁶  have said, ‘They have gone ⁷  far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

Ezekiel 21:24

21:24 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have brought up ⁸  your own guilt by uncovering your transgressions and revealing your sins through all your actions, for this reason you will be taken by force. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 22:26

22:26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, ¹⁰  or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore ¹¹  my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.

Ezekiel 26:17

26:17 They will sing this lament over you: ¹² 

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished ¹³  from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 40:4-5

40:4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention ¹⁵  to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. ¹⁶  Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

40:5 I saw ¹⁷  a wall all around the outside of the temple. ¹⁸  In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet ¹⁹  long. He measured the thickness of the wall ²⁰  as 10½ feet, ²¹  and its height as 10½ feet.

Ezekiel 41:7

41:7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; ²²  for the structure ²³  surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

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¹ sn Even though the infinitive absolute is used to emphasize the warning, the warning is still implicitly conditional, as the following context makes clear.

² tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and v. 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

³ tn Heb “his blood I will seek from your hand.” The expression “seek blood from the hand” is equivalent to requiring the death penalty (2 Sam 4:11-12).

⁴ tc The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.

⁵ tc The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ (gÿ’ullatekha, “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ (galutekha) or having read the א (aleph) as an internal mater lectionis for holem.

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⁷ tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).

⁸ tn Heb “caused to be remembered.”

⁹ tn Heb “Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt when your transgressions are uncovered so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds – because you are remembered, by the hand you will be seized.”

¹⁰ tn Or “between the consecrated and the common.”

¹¹ tn Heb “hide their eyes from.” The idiom means to disregard or ignore something or someone (see Lev 20:4; 1 Sam 12:3; Prov 28:27; Isa 1:15).

¹² tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

¹³ tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

¹⁴ tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”

¹⁵ tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”

¹⁷ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

¹⁸ tn Heb “house.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “a measuring stick of six cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

²⁰ tn Heb “building.”

²¹ tn Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6, three times in v. 7, and once in v. 8).

²² tc The Hebrew is difficult here. The Targum envisions a winding ramp or set of stairs, which entails reading the first word as a noun rather than a verb and reading the second word also not as a verb, supposing that an initial mem has been read as vav and nun. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:549.

²³ tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.