Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:11 
Context1:11 Their wings were spread out above them; each had two wings touching the wings of one of the other beings on either side and two wings covering their bodies.
Ezekiel 3:9
Context3:9 I have made your forehead harder than flint – like diamond! 1 Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, 2 for they are a rebellious house.”
Ezekiel 3:17
Context3:17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman 3 for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me.
Ezekiel 3:26-27
Context3:26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove 4 them, for they are a rebellious house. 3:27 But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue 5 and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, 6 for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 5:16
Context5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, 7 destructive 8 arrows of famine, 9 which I will shoot to destroy you. 10 I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. 11
Ezekiel 6:12
Context6:12 The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these 12 will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.
Ezekiel 6:14
Context6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them 13 and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, 14 in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 9:6
Context9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
Ezekiel 9:8
Context9:8 While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out, “Ah, sovereign Lord! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?”
Ezekiel 10:2
Context10:2 The Lord 15 said to the man dressed in linen, “Go between the wheelwork 16 underneath the cherubim. 17 Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.
Ezekiel 10:17
Context10:17 When the cherubim 18 stood still, the wheels 19 stood still, and when they rose up, the wheels 20 rose up with them, for the spirit 21 of the living beings 22 was in the wheels. 23
Ezekiel 12:16
Context12:16 But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 12:28
Context12:28 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer! The word I speak will come to pass, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 13:6
Context13:6 They see delusion and their omens are a lie. 24 They say, “the Lord declares,” though the Lord has not sent them; 25 yet they expect their word to be confirmed. 26
Ezekiel 14:3
Context14:3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity 27 right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek 28 me?
Ezekiel 16:17
Context16:17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution 29 with them.
Ezekiel 16:19-20
Context16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.
16:20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them 30 as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough,
Ezekiel 16:33
Context16:33 All prostitutes receive payment, 31 but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!
Ezekiel 16:61
Context16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.
Ezekiel 17:3
Context17:3 Say to them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: 32
“‘A great eagle 33 with broad wings, long feathers, 34
with full plumage which was multi-hued, 35
came to Lebanon 36 and took the top of the cedar.
Ezekiel 18:19
Context18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer 37 for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.
Ezekiel 19:12
Context19:12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground.
The east wind 38 dried up its fruit;
its strong branches broke off and withered –
a fire consumed them.
Ezekiel 20:7
Context20:7 I said to them, “Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, 39 and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”
Ezekiel 20:9
Context20:9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, 40 so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, 41 before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. 42
Ezekiel 20:22
Context20:22 But I refrained from doing so, 43 and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:27
Context20:27 “Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In this way too your fathers blasphemed me when they were unfaithful to me.
Ezekiel 21:3
Context21:3 and say to them, 44 ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, 45 I am against you. 46 I will draw my sword 47 from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 48
Ezekiel 21:14
Context21:14 “And you, son of man, prophesy,
and clap your hands together.
Let the sword strike twice, even three times!
It is a sword for slaughter,
a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.
Ezekiel 22:18
Context22:18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; 49 they are the worthless slag of silver.
Ezekiel 22:20
Context22:20 As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there 50 and melt you.
Ezekiel 22:28
Context22:28 Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. 51 They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
Ezekiel 22:30
Context22:30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. 52
Ezekiel 23:22
Context23:22 “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 53 I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side:
Ezekiel 24:3
Context24:3 Recite a proverb to this rebellious house 54 and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Set on the pot, 55 set it on,
pour water in it too;
Ezekiel 24:27
Context24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; 56 you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 28:24
Context28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers 57 or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. 58 Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 29:14-15
Context29:14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back 59 to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom. 29:15 It will be the most insignificant of the kingdoms; it will never again exalt itself over the nations. I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.
Ezekiel 29:21
Context29:21 On that day I will make Israel powerful, 60 and I will give you the right to be heard 61 among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 30:9
Context30:9 On that day messengers will go out from me in ships to frighten overly confident Ethiopia; panic will overtake them on the day of Egypt’s doom; 62 for beware – it is coming!
Ezekiel 32:10
Context32:10 I will shock many peoples with you,
and their kings will shiver with horror because of you.
When I brandish my sword before them,
every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.
Ezekiel 32:12
Context32:12 By the swords of the mighty warriors I will cause your hordes to fall –
all of them are the most terrifying among the nations.
They will devastate the pride of Egypt,
and all its hordes will be destroyed.
Ezekiel 32:23
Context32:23 Their 63 graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. 64 Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:26
Context32:26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. 65 All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 33:2
Context33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, 66 and say to them, ‘Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.
Ezekiel 33:7
Context33:7 “As for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman 67 for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must warn them on my behalf.
Ezekiel 33:25
Context33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, 68 pray to 69 your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess 70 the land?
Ezekiel 33:28
Context33:28 I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.
Ezekiel 33:31
Context33:31 They come to you in crowds, 71 and they sit in front of you as 72 my people. They hear your words, but do not obey 73 them. For they talk lustfully, 74 and their heart is set on 75 their own advantage. 76
Ezekiel 34:4
Context34:4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness 77 you have ruled over them.
Ezekiel 34:6
Context34:6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.
Ezekiel 34:12
Context34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. 78
Ezekiel 34:14
Context34:14 In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush 79 pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 34:16
Context34:16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!
Ezekiel 34:25-26
Context34:25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely 80 in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods. 81 34:26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing. 82
Ezekiel 34:29
Context34:29 I will prepare for them a healthy 83 planting. They will no longer be victims 84 of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.
Ezekiel 36:20
Context36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’
Ezekiel 36:37
Context36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: 85 I will multiply their people like sheep. 86
Ezekiel 37:12
Context37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:25
Context37:25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.
Ezekiel 38:11
Context38:11 You will say, “I will invade 87 a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against 88 those living quietly in security – all of them living without walls and barred gates –
Ezekiel 38:15
Context38:15 and come from your place, from the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a vast army.
Ezekiel 38:17
Context38:17 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants 89 the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days 90 that I would bring you against them?
Ezekiel 39:9
Context39:9 “‘Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and use the weapons for kindling 91 – the shields, 92 bows and arrows, war clubs and spears – they will burn them for seven years.
Ezekiel 39:18
Context39:18 You will eat the flesh of warriors 93 and drink the blood of the princes of the earth – the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.
Ezekiel 40:22
Context40:22 Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.
Ezekiel 40:42
Context40:42 The four tables for the burnt offering were of carved stone, 32 inches 94 long, 32 inches 95 wide, and 21 inches 96 high. They would put the instruments which they used to slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.
Ezekiel 42:11
Context42:11 with a passage in front of them. They looked like the chambers on the north. Of the same length and width, and all their exits according to their arrangements and entrances
Ezekiel 44:17
Context44:17 “‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple.
Ezekiel 45:15
Context45:15 and one sheep from each flock of two hundred, from the watered places of Israel, for a grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offering, to make atonement for them, declares the sovereign Lord.
1 tn The Hebrew term translated “diamond” is parallel to “iron” in Jer 17:1. The Hebrew uses two terms which are both translated at times as “flint,” but here one is clearly harder than the other. The translation “diamond” attempts to reflect this distinction in English.
2 tn Heb “of their faces.”
3 tn The literal role of a watchman is described in 2 Sam 18:24; 2 Kgs 9:17.
4 tn Heb “you will not be to them a reprover.” In Isa 29:21 and Amos 5:10 “a reprover” issued rebuke at the city gate.
5 tn Heb “open your mouth.”
6 tn Heb “the listener will listen, the refuser will refuse.” Because the word for listening can also mean obeying, the nuance may be that the obedient will listen, or that the one who listens will obey. Also, although the verbs are not jussive as pointed in the MT, some translate them with a volitive sense: “the one who listens – let that one listen, the one who refuses – let that one refuse.”
7 tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).
8 tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”
9 tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.
10 tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).
11 tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.
12 tn Heb “the one who is left, the one who is spared.”
13 sn I will stretch out my hand against them is a common expression in the book of Ezekiel (14:9, 13; 16:27; 25:7; 35:3).
14 tc The Vulgate reads the name as “Riblah,” a city north of Damascus. The MT reads Diblah, a city otherwise unknown. The letters resh (ר) and dalet (ד) may have been confused in the Hebrew text. The town of Riblah was in the land of Hamath (2 Kgs 23:33) which represented the northern border of Israel (Ezek 47:14).
15 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
16 tn The Hebrew term often refers to chariot wheels (Isa 28:28; Ezek 23:24; 26:10).
17 tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum
18 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the cherubim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the wheels) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
20 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the wheels) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Or “wind.”
22 tn Heb “living creature.”
23 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the wheels) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 sn The same description of a false prophet is found in Micah 2:11.
25 sn The
26 tn Or “confirmed”; NIV “to be fulfilled”; TEV “to come true.”
27 tn Heb “the stumbling block of their iniquity.” This phrase is unique to the prophet Ezekiel.
28 tn Or “I will not reveal myself to them.” The Hebrew word is used in a technical sense here of seeking an oracle from a prophet (2 Kgs 1:16; 3:11; 8:8).
29 tn Or perhaps “and worshiped them,” if the word “prostitution” is understood in a figurative rather than a literal sense (cf. CEV, NLT).
30 sn The sacrifice of children was prohibited in Lev 18:21; 20:2; Deut 12:31; 18:10.
31 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
32 tn The parable assumes the defection of Zedekiah to Egypt and his rejection of Babylonian lordship.
33 sn The great eagle symbolizes Nebuchadnezzar (17:12).
34 tn Hebrew has two words for wings; it is unknown whether they are fully synonymous or whether one term distinguishes a particular part of the wing such as the wing coverts (nearest the shoulder), secondaries (mid-feathers of the wing) or primaries (last and longest section of the wing).
35 tn This term was used in 16:10, 13, and 18 of embroidered cloth.
36 sn In the parable Lebanon apparently refers to Jerusalem (17:12).
37 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
38 sn The east wind symbolizes the Babylonians.
39 tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of his eyes, throw away.” The Pentateuch does not refer to the Israelites worshiping idols in Egypt, but Josh 24:14 appears to suggest that they did so.
40 tn Heb “for the sake of my name.”
41 tn Heb “before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were.”
42 tn Heb “to whom I made myself known before their eyes to bring them out from the land of Egypt.” The translation understands the infinitive construct (“to bring them out”) as indicating manner. God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt was an act of self-revelation in that it displayed his power and his commitment to his promises.
43 tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.
44 tn Heb “the land of Israel.”
45 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.
46 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
47 sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.
48 sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.
49 tn For similar imagery, see Isa 1:21-26; Jer 6:27-30.
50 tn Heb “I will put.” No object is supplied in the Hebrew, prompting many to emend the text to “I will blow.” See BHS and verse 21.
51 tn Heb “her prophets coat for themselves with whitewash.” The expression may be based on Ezek 13:10-15.
52 tn Heb “I did not find.”
53 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
54 sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).
55 sn See Ezek 11:3-12.
56 tn Heb “your mouth will open.”
57 sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.
58 tn Heb “and there will not be for the house of Israel a brier that pricks and a thorn that inflicts pain from all the ones who surround them, the ones who scorn them.”
59 tc Thus the Masoretic Text. The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as though the Hebrew read “cause to inhabit.”
60 tn Heb “I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel.” The horn is used as a figure for military power in the OT (Ps 92:10). A similar expression is made about the Davidic dynasty in Ps 132:17.
61 tn Heb “I will grant you an open mouth.”
62 tn Heb “in the day of Egypt.” The word “doom” has been added in the translation to clarify the nature of this day.
63 tn Heb “whose.”
64 tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.
65 tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).
66 tn Heb “sons of your people.”
67 sn Jeremiah (Jer 6:17) and Habakkuk (Hab 2:1) also served in the role of a watchman.
68 sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).
69 tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”
70 tn Heb “Will you possess?”
71 tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.
72 tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.
73 tn Heb “do.”
74 tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”
75 tn Heb “goes after.”
76 tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.
77 tn The term translated “harshness” is used to describe the oppression the Israelites suffered as slaves in Egypt (Exod 1:13).
78 sn The imagery may reflect the overthrow of the Israelites by the Babylonians in 587/6
79 tn Heb “good.”
80 tn The phrase “live securely” occurs in Ezek 28:26; 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26 as an expression of freedom from fear. It is a promised blessing resulting from obedience (see Lev 26:5-6).
81 sn The woods were typically considered to be places of danger (Ps 104:20-21; Jer 5:6).
82 tn Heb “showers of blessing.” Abundant rain, which in turn produces fruit and crops (v. 27), is a covenantal blessing for obedience (Lev 26:4).
83 tc The MT reads לְשֵׁם (lÿshem, “for a name”), meaning perhaps a renowned planting (place). The translation takes this to be a metathesis of שָׁלֹם (shalom) as was read by the LXX.
84 tn Heb “those gathered” for famine.
85 tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”
86 sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”
87 tn Heb “go up against.”
88 tn Heb “come (to).”
89 tn Heb “by the hand of my servants.”
90 tn The Hebrew text adds “years” here, but this is probably a scribal gloss on the preceding phrase. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:201.
91 tn Heb “burn and kindle the weapons.”
92 tn Two different types of shields are specified in the Hebrew text.
93 sn See Rev 19:17-18.
94 tn Heb “one and a half cubits” (i.e., 78.75 cm).
95 tn Heb “one and a half cubits” (i.e., 78.75 cm).
96 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).
