4:14 And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat 1 has never entered my mouth.”
17:9 “‘Say to them: This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Will it prosper?
Will he not rip out its roots
and cause its fruit to rot 5 and wither?
All its foliage 6 will wither.
No strong arm or large army
will be needed to pull it out by its roots. 7
31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it 10 went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. 11 I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.
33:27 “This is what you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die 12 by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.
42:13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests 16 who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings – the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.
44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok 17 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 The Hebrew term refers to sacrificial meat not eaten by the appropriate time (Lev 7:18; 19:7).
2 sn By referring to every high hill…all the mountaintops…under every green tree and every leafy oak Ezekiel may be expanding on the phraseology of Deut 12:2 (see 1 Kgs 14:23; 2 Kgs 16:4; 17:10; Jer 2:20; 3:6, 13; 2 Chr 28:4).
3 tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the
4 tn The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).
5 tn The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT and appears to have the meaning of “strip off.” In application to fruit the meaning may be “cause to rot.”
6 tn Heb “all the טַרְפֵּי (tarpey) of branches.” The word טַרְפֵּי occurs only here in the Bible; its precise meaning is uncertain.
7 tn Or “there will be no strong arm or large army when it is pulled up by the roots.”
8 tn Heb “every spirit will be dim.”
9 sn This expression depicts in a very vivid way how they will be overcome with fear. See the note on the same phrase in 7:17.
10 tn Or “he.”
11 tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.
12 tn Heb “fall.”
13 tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”
14 tn Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”
15 sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.
16 sn The priests are from the Zadokite family (Ezek 40:6; 44:15).
17 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).