Ezekiel 3:20
3:20 “When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle 1 before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.
Ezekiel 14:4
14:4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry. 2
Ezekiel 14:7
14:7 For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.
Ezekiel 28:18
28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade,
you desecrated your sanctuaries.
So I drew fire out from within you;
it consumed you,
and I turned you to ashes on the earth
before the eyes of all who saw you.
Ezekiel 33:22
33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me 3 the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord 4 opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived 5 in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. 6
Ezekiel 38:16
38:16 You will advance 7 against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself 8 through you, O Gog.
Ezekiel 44:11
44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.
Ezekiel 44:15
The Levitical Priests
44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok 9 who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.
1 tn Or “stumbling block.” The Hebrew term refers to an obstacle in the road in Lev 19:14.
2 tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.”
3 tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.
6 sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).
7 tn Heb “come up.”
8 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”
9 sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).