Ezekiel 8:11-12

8:11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel ¹  (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant ²  vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? ³  For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”

Ezekiel 9:2

9:2 Next, I noticed ⁴  six men ⁵  coming from the direction of the upper gate ⁶  which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit ⁷  at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 20:39

20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, ⁸  if you will not listen to me. ⁹  But my holy name will not be profaned ¹⁰  again by your sacrifices ¹¹  and your idols.

Ezekiel 40:48

40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet ¹²  on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet ¹³  and the sides ¹⁴  were 5¼ feet ¹⁵  on each side.

Ezekiel 41:6-7

41:6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple. 41:7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; ¹⁶  for the structure ¹⁷  surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

Ezekiel 45:23

45:23 And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

Ezekiel 46:11

46:11 “‘At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able, ¹⁸  and a gallon ¹⁹  of olive oil with each ephah of grain. ²⁰ 

Ezekiel 46:18

46:18 The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

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¹ sn Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).

² tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

³ tn Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

sn This type of image is explicitly prohibited in the Mosaic law (Lev 26:1).

⁴ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

⁵ sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.

⁶ sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).

⁷ tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.

⁸ sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.

⁹ tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.

¹⁰ sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.

¹¹ tn Or “gifts.”

¹² tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

¹³ tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.

¹⁴ 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.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

¹⁶ tc The Hebrew is difficult here. The Targum envisions a winding ramp or set of stairs, which entails reading the first word as a noun rather than a verb and reading the second word also not as a verb, supposing that an initial mem has been read as vav and nun. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:549.

¹⁷ tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.

¹⁸ tn Or “as much as he wishes.” Heb “a gift of his hand.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.

²⁰ tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.