Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:2 
Context1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –
Ezekiel 4:10
Context4:10 The food you eat will be eight ounces 1 a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed 2 times.
Ezekiel 7:10
Context7:10 “Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!
Ezekiel 21:25
Context21:25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, 3
whose day has come, the time of final punishment,
Ezekiel 23:38
Context23:38 Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day 4 they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 26:1
Context26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, 5 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 28:15
Context28:15 You were blameless in your behavior 6 from the day you were created,
until sin was discovered in you.
Ezekiel 30:2
Context30:2 “Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Wail, “Alas, the day is here!” 7
Ezekiel 32:17
Context32:17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, 8 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 39:22
Context39:22 Then the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.
1 sn Eight ounces (Heb “twenty shekels”). The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of grain about 230 grams here (8 ounces).
2 tn Heb “from time to time.”
3 tn This probably refers to King Zedekiah.
4 tn Heb “in that day.”
5 tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.
sn April 23, 587
6 tn Heb “ways.”
7 tn Heb “Alas for the day.”
8 tn March 17, 585
