Ezekiel 7:19

7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. ¹  Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. ²  They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth ³  was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 10:19

10:19 The cherubim spread ⁵  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ⁶  while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Ezekiel 11:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

11:1 A wind ⁷  lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ⁹  watch closely and listen carefully to ¹⁰  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ¹¹  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

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¹ tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.

² sn Compare Zeph 1:18.

³ tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).

⁴ tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).

⁵ tn Heb “lifted.”

⁶ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

⁷ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

⁸ sn The phrase officials of the people occurs in Neh 11:1; 1 Chr 21:2; 2 Chr 24:23.

⁹ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

¹⁰ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

¹¹ tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.