Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:22-23 
Context1:22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, 1 glittering awesomely like ice, 2 stretched out over their heads. 1:23 Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering 3 its body.
Ezekiel 4:13
Context4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations 4 where I will banish them.”
Ezekiel 6:5
Context6:5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, 5 and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezekiel 7:12
Context7:12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath 6 comes against their whole crowd.
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. 7
Ezekiel 7:16
Context7:16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 10:22
Context10:22 As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.
Ezekiel 11:20
Context11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. 8
Ezekiel 13:2-3
Context13:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to the prophets who prophesy from their imagination: 9 ‘Hear the word of the Lord! 13:3 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!
Ezekiel 13:17
Context13:17 “As for you, son of man, turn toward 10 the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. 11 Prophesy against them
Ezekiel 14:5
Context14:5 I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’
Ezekiel 14:10
Context14:10 They will bear their punishment; 12 the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it 13
Ezekiel 16:53
Context16:53 “‘I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters (along with your fortunes among them),
Ezekiel 19:4
Context19:4 The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit.
They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. 14
Ezekiel 20:4
Context20:4 “Are you willing to pronounce judgment? 15 Are you willing to pronounce judgment, son of man? Then confront them with the abominable practices of their fathers,
Ezekiel 22:27
Context22:27 Her officials are like wolves in her midst rending their prey – shedding blood and destroying lives – so they can get dishonest profit.
Ezekiel 23:17
Context23:17 The Babylonians crawled into bed with her. 16 They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she 17 became disgusted with them.
Ezekiel 23:36
Context23:36 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment 18 on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds!
Ezekiel 25:15
Context25:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The Philistines 19 have exacted merciless revenge, 20 showing intense scorn 21 in their effort to destroy Judah 22 with unrelenting hostility. 23
Ezekiel 27:29-31
Context27:29 They will descend from their ships – all who handle the oar,
the sailors and all the sea captains – they will stand on the land.
27:30 They will lament loudly 24 over you and cry bitterly.
They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes; 25
27:31 they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth,
and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning. 26
Ezekiel 33:17
Context33:17 “Yet your people 27 say, ‘The behavior 28 of the Lord is not right,’ 29 when it is their behavior that is not right.
Ezekiel 34:23-24
Context34:23 I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them – namely, my servant David. 30 He will feed them and will be their shepherd. 34:24 I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince 31 among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 34:30
Context34:30 Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, 32 and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. 33
Ezekiel 37:10
Context37:10 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army.
Ezekiel 42:4
Context42:4 In front of the chambers was a walkway on the inner side, 17½ feet 34 wide at a distance of 1¾ feet, 35 and their entrances were on the north.
Ezekiel 43:10
Context43:10 “As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their sins and measure the pattern.
Ezekiel 48:12
Context48:12 It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.
Ezekiel 48:29
Context48:29 This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign Lord.
1 tn Or “like a dome” (NCV, NRSV, TEV).
2 tn Or “like crystal” (NRSV, NLT).
3 tc Heb “each had two wings covering and each had two wings covering,” a case of dittography. On the analogy of v. 11 and the support of the LXX, which reads the same for v. 11 and this verse, one should perhaps read “each had two wings touching another being and each had two wings covering.”
4 sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).
5 tc This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a marginal explanatory note making its way into the text.
6 tn Heb “wrath.” Context clarifies that God’s wrath is in view.
7 tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.
8 sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).
9 tn Heb “from their mind.”
sn Who prophesy from their imagination. Note the testimony of Moses in Num 16:28, which contains a similar expression.
10 tn Heb “set your face against.”
11 tn Heb “from their heart.”
12 tn Or “They will bear responsibility for their iniquity.” The Hebrew term “iniquity” (three times in this verse) often refers by metonymy to the consequence of sin (see Gen 4:13).
13 tn Or “As is the guilt of the inquirer so is the guilt of the prophet.”
14 sn The description applies to king Jehoahaz (2 Kgs 23:31-34; Jer 22:10-12).
15 tn Heb “will you judge.” Here the imperfect form of the verb is probably used with a desiderative nuance. Addressed to the prophet, “judge” means to warn of or pronounce God’s impending judgment.
16 tn Heb “The sons of Babel came to her on a bed of love.”
17 tn Heb “her soul.”
18 tn Heb “will you judge.” Here the imperfect form of the verb is probably used with a desiderative nuance. Addressed to the prophet, “judge” means to warn of or pronounce God’s impending judgment. See 20:4; 22:2.
19 sn The Philistines inhabited the coastal plain by the Mediterranean Sea, west of Judah.
20 tn Heb “have acted with vengeance and taken vengeance with vengeance.” The repetition emphasizes the degree of vengeance which they exhibited, presumably toward Judah.
21 tn Heb “with scorn in (the) soul.”
22 tn The object is not specified in the Hebrew text, but has been clarified as “Judah” in the translation.
23 tn Heb “to destroy (with) perpetual hostility.” Joel 3:4-8 also speaks of the Philistines taking advantage of the fall of Judah.
24 tn Heb “make heard over you with their voice.”
25 tn Note a similar expression to “roll in the ashes” in Mic 1:10.
26 tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”
27 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
28 tn Heb “way.”
29 tn The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29.
30 sn The messianic king is here called “David” (see Jer 30:9 and Hos 3:5, as well as Isa 11:1 and Mic 5:2) because he will fulfill the Davidic royal ideal depicted in the prophets and royal psalms (see Ps 2, 89).
31 sn The messianic king (“David”) is called both “king” and “prince” in 37:24-25. The use of the term “prince” for this king facilitates the contrast between this ideal ruler and the Davidic “princes” denounced in earlier prophecies (see 7:27; 12:10, 12; 19:1; 21:25; 22:6, 25).
32 sn A promise given to Abraham (Gen 15:7) and his descendants (Gen 15:8; Exod 6:7).
33 sn The blessings described in vv. 25-30 are those promised for obedience in Lev 26:4-13.
34 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
35 tc Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm). The LXX and the Syriac read “one hundred cubits” (= 175 feet).
