Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:20 
Context1:20 Wherever the spirit 1 would go, they would go, 2 and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit 3 of the living being was in the wheel.
Ezekiel 5:9
Context5:9 I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices. 4
Ezekiel 7:14
Context7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. 5
Ezekiel 13:8
Context13:8 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have spoken false words and forecast delusion, look, 6 I am against you, 7 declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 16:28
Context16:28 You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:34
Context16:34 You were different from other prostitutes 8 because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!
Ezekiel 18:18
Context18:18 As for his father, because he practices extortion, robs his brother, and does what is not good among his people, he will die for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 18:22
Context18:22 None of the sins he has committed will be held 9 against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.
Ezekiel 18:26
Context18:26 When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; 10 because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.
Ezekiel 19:10-11
Context19:10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, 11 planted by water.
It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.
19:11 Its boughs were strong, fit 12 for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds.
It stood out because of its height and its many branches. 13
Ezekiel 20:16
Context20:16 I did this 14 because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols. 15
Ezekiel 20:24
Context20:24 I did this 16 because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on 17 their fathers’ idols.
Ezekiel 22:19
Context22:19 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you 18 have become slag, look out! – I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem. 19
Ezekiel 23:45
Context23:45 But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, 20 because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Ezekiel 25:6
Context25:6 For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn 21 over the land of Israel,
Ezekiel 27:16
Context27:16 Edom 22 was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your products.
Ezekiel 27:18
Context27:18 Damascus was your trade partner because of the abundance of your goods and of all your wealth: wine from Helbon, white wool from Zahar,
Ezekiel 27:31
Context27:31 they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth,
and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning. 23
Ezekiel 29:6
Context29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord
because they were a reed staff 24 for the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 29:20
Context29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre 25 , because they did it for me, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 31:5
Context31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,
because of the plentiful water in its shoots. 26
Ezekiel 31:10
Context31:10 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height,
Ezekiel 33:29
Context33:29 Then they will know that I am the Lord when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.’ 27
Ezekiel 34:21
Context34:21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad, 28
Ezekiel 36:13
Context36:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because they are saying to you, “You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”
Ezekiel 42:5
Context42:5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.
1 tn Or “wind”; the same Hebrew word can be translated as either “wind” or “spirit” depending on the context.
2 tc The MT adds the additional phrase “the spirit would go,” which seems unduly redundant here and may be dittographic.
3 tn Or “wind.” The Hebrew is difficult since the text presents four creatures and then talks about “the spirit” (singular) of “the living being” (singular). According to M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:45) the Targum interprets this as “will.” Greenberg views this as the spirit of the one enthroned above the creatures, but one would not expect the article when the one enthroned has not yet been introduced.
4 tn Or “abominable idols.”
5 tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.
6 tn The word h!nn@h indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
7 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.
8 tn Heb “With you it was opposite of women in your prostitution.”
9 tn Heb “remembered.”
10 tn Heb “for them” or “because of them.”
11 tc The Hebrew text reads “in your blood,” but most emend to “in your vineyard,” assuming a ב-כ (beth-kaph) confusion. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. Another attractive emendation assumes a faulty word division and yields the reading “like a vine full of tendrils, which/because…”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:607, n. 68.
12 tn The word “fit” does not occur in the Hebrew text.
13 tn Heb “and it was seen by its height and by the abundance of its branches.”
14 tn The words “I did this” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for stylistic reasons. Verses 15-16 are one long sentence in the Hebrew text. The translation divides this sentence into two for stylistic reasons.
15 tn Heb “for after their idols their heart was going.” The use of the active participle (“was going”) in the Hebrew text draws attention to the ongoing nature of their idolatrous behavior.
16 tn The words “I did this” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for stylistic reasons. Verses 23-24 are one long sentence in the Hebrew text. The translation divides this sentence into two for stylistic reasons.
17 tn Or “they worshiped” (NCV, TEV, CEV); Heb “their eyes were on” or “were after” (cf. v. 16).
18 tn The Hebrew second person pronoun is masculine plural here and in vv. 19b-21, indicating that the people are being addressed.
19 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
20 tn Heb “and upright men will judge them (with) the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of those who shed blood.”
21 tn Heb “with all your scorn in (the) soul.”
22 tc Many Hebrew
23 tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”
25 tn Heb “for which he worked,” referring to the assault on Tyre (v. 18).
26 tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).
27 sn The judgments of vv. 27-29 echo the judgments of Lev 26:22, 25.
28 tn Heb “outside.”
