Ezekiel 6:6

6:6 In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. ¹ 

Ezekiel 11:15

11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, ²  your relatives, ³  and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem ⁴  have said, ‘They have gone ⁵  far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

Ezekiel 20:28

20:28 I brought them to the land which I swore ⁶  to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 25:7

25:7 take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder ⁷  to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 33:12

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, ⁸  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. ⁹  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. ¹⁰  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness ¹¹  if he sins.’ ¹² 

Ezekiel 42:13

42:13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests ¹³  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.

Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ¹⁴  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ¹⁵  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ¹⁶  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ¹⁷  and the width three and one-third miles. ¹⁸  This entire area will be holy. ¹⁹ 

Ezekiel 48:10

48:10 These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles ²⁰  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ²¹  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ²²  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ²³  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

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¹ tn The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).

² tc The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.

³ tc The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ (gÿ’ullatekha, “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ (galutekha) or having read the א (aleph) as an internal mater lectionis for holem.

⁴ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵ tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).

⁶ tn Heb “which I lifted up my hand.”

⁷ tc The translation here follows the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text. The consonantal text (Kethib) is meaningless.

⁸ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

⁹ tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

¹¹ tn Heb “by it.”

¹² tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

¹³ sn The priests are from the Zadokite family (Ezek 40:6; 44:15).

¹⁴ tn Heb “to desecrate.”

¹⁵ tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “a contribution.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

¹⁸ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

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

¹⁹ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

²⁰ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

²¹ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

²² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

²³ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).