Ezekiel 5:11

5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare ¹  you.

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 ²  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 23:39

23:39 On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.

Ezekiel 37:26

37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. ³  I will establish them, ⁴  increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

Ezekiel 41:2-3

41:2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, ⁵  and the sides ⁶  of the entrance were 8¾ feet ⁷  on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, ⁸  and its width as 35 feet. ⁹ 

41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, ¹⁰  the entrance as 10½ feet, ¹¹  and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet ¹² 

Ezekiel 41:15

41:15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. ¹³ 

The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 41:25

41:25 On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy ¹⁵  of wood on the front of the outside porch.

Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ¹⁶  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ¹⁷  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ¹⁸ 

Ezekiel 45:3

45:3 From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles ¹⁹  and a width of three and one-third miles; ²⁰  in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

Ezekiel 45:18

45:18 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary.

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¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

² tn Heb “house.”

³ sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.

⁴ tn Heb “give them.”

⁵ tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).

⁶ tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.

tn Or “sidewalls.”

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

⁸ tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).

⁹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

¹⁰ tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).

¹¹ tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

¹² tn Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).

¹³ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

¹⁴ tc Some Hebrew mss read “and its outer court.”

¹⁵ tn Or “railings.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:218.

¹⁶ tn Heb “to desecrate.”

¹⁷ tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

¹⁸ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

¹⁹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

²⁰ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).