Ezekiel 5:7

5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant ¹  than the nations around you, ²  you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even ³  carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

Ezekiel 20:13

20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out ⁴  my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 20:21

20:21 “‘But the children ⁶  rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys ⁷  them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out ⁸  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 43:18

43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, ⁹ 

Ezekiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ¹⁰  watch closely and listen carefully to ¹¹  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ¹²  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

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¹ tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.

² sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.

³ tc Some Hebrew mss and the Syriac omit the words “not even.” In this case they are being accused of following the practices of the surrounding nations. See Ezek 11:12.

⁴ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

⁵ tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”

⁶ tn Heb “sons.”

⁷ tn Or “carries them out.”

⁸ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

⁹ sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.

¹⁰ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

¹¹ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

¹² tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.