Ezekiel 3:7

3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, ¹  because they are not willing to listen to me, ²  for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. ³ 

Ezekiel 7:13

7:13 The customer will no longer pay the seller ⁴  while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd ⁵  will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, ⁶  will fail to preserve his life.

Ezekiel 15:5

15:5 Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?

Ezekiel 41:19

41:19 a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around;

Ezekiel 45:6

45:6 “‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles ⁷  wide and eight and a quarter miles ⁸  long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.

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¹ sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.

² sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.

³ tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”

⁴ tc The translation follows the LXX for the first line of the verse, although the LXX has lost the second line due to homoioteleuton (similar endings of the clauses). The MT reads “The seller will not return to the sale.” This Hebrew reading has been construed as a reference to land redemption, the temporary sale of the use of property, with property rights returned to the seller in the year of Jubilee. But the context has no other indicator that land redemption is in view. If correct, the LXX evidence suggests that one of the cases of “the customer” has been replaced by “the seller” in the MT, perhaps due to hoimoioarcton (similar beginnings of the words).

⁵ tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

⁶ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in v. 16; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 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.”

⁷ tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).

⁸ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).