Ezekiel 8:16-17
8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there 1 at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, 2 were about twenty-five 3 men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, 4 facing east – they were worshiping the sun 5 toward the east!
8:17 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! 6
Ezekiel 10:19
10:19 The cherubim spread 7 their wings, and they rose up from the earth 8 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 13:18
13:18 and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands 9 on all their wrists 10 and make headbands 11 for heads of every size to entrap people’s lives! 12 Will you entrap my people’s lives, yet preserve your own lives?
Ezekiel 16:52
16:52 So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. 13 Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.
Ezekiel 20:8
20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, 14 nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out 15 my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 22:26
22:26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, 16 or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore 17 my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.
Ezekiel 23:24
23:24 They will attack 18 you with weapons, 19 chariots, wagons, and with a huge army; 20 they will array themselves against you on every side with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I will assign them the task of judgment; 21 they will punish you according to their laws.
Ezekiel 28:25-26
28:25 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are dispersed, I will reveal my sovereign power 22 over them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely 23 when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”
Ezekiel 31:14
31:14 For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. 24 For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; 25 they will be among mere mortals, 26 with those who descend to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:24
32:24 “Elam is there with all her hordes around her grave; all of them struck down by the sword. They went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, those who spread terror in the land of the living. Now they will bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.
Ezekiel 33:6
33:6 But suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people. Then the sword comes and takes one of their lives. He is swept away for his iniquity, 27 but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person’s death.’ 28
Ezekiel 34:13
34:13 I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.
Ezekiel 36:5
36:5 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’
Ezekiel 36:23
36:23 I will magnify 29 my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.
Ezekiel 38:16
38:16 You will advance 30 against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself 31 through you, O Gog.
Ezekiel 42:14
42:14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”
Ezekiel 43:11
43:11 When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its pattern, its exits and entrances, and its whole design – all its statutes, its entire design, and all its laws; write it all down in their sight, so that they may observe its entire design and all its statutes and do them.
Ezekiel 44:19
44:19 When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. 32
Ezekiel 45:4
45:4 It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 33
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.’”
1 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.
2 sn The priests prayed to God between the porch and the altar on fast days (Joel 2:17). This is the location where Zechariah was murdered (Matt 23:35).
3 tc The LXX reads “twenty” instead of twenty-five, perhaps because of the association of the number twenty with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash.
tn Or “exactly twenty-five.”
4 sn The temple faced east.
5 tn Or “the sun god.”
sn The worship of astral entities may have begun during the reign of Manasseh (2 Kgs 21:5).
6 tn It is not clear what the practice of “holding a branch to the nose” indicates. A possible parallel is the Syrian relief of a king holding a flower to his nose as he worships the stars (ANEP 281). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:145-46. The LXX glosses the expression as “Behold, they are like mockers.”
7 tn Heb “lifted.”
8 tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).
9 sn The wristbands mentioned here probably represented magic bands or charms. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:413.
10 tn Heb “joints of the hands.” This may include the elbow and shoulder joints.
11 tn The Hebrew term occurs in the Bible only here and in v. 21. It has also been understood as a veil or type of head covering. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:414) suggests that given the context of magical devices, the expected parallel to the magical arm bands, and the meaning of this Hebrew root (סָפַח [safakh, “to attach” or “join”]), it may refer to headbands or necklaces on which magical amulets were worn.
12 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls” (three times in v. 18 and twice in v. 19).
13 tn Heb “because you have interceded for your sisters with your sins.”
14 tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”
15 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”
16 tn Or “between the consecrated and the common.”
17 tn Heb “hide their eyes from.” The idiom means to disregard or ignore something or someone (see Lev 20:4; 1 Sam 12:3; Prov 28:27; Isa 1:15).
18 tn Heb “come against.”
19 tn This is the only occurrence of this term in the OT. The precise meaning is uncertain.
20 tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”
21 tn Heb “I will place before them judgment.”
22 tn Or “reveal my holiness.” See verse 22.
23 sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.
24 tn Heb “and they will not stand to them in their height, all the drinkers of water.”
25 tn Heb “for death, to the lower earth.”
26 tn Heb “the sons of men.”
27 tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 8 and 9; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
28 tn Heb “his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.”
29 tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”
30 tn Heb “come up.”
31 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”
32 sn For a similar concept of the transmitting of holiness, see Exod 19:12-14; Lev 10:1-2; 2 Sam 6:7. Similar laws concerning the priest are found in Lev 10 and 21.
33 tc The LXX apparently understood “open land” instead of “sanctuary.”