Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:24 
Context1:24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings – it was like the sound of rushing waters, or the voice of the Almighty, 1 or the tumult 2 of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
Ezekiel 2:3
Context2:3 He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the house 3 of Israel, to rebellious nations 4 who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted 5 against me to this very day.
Ezekiel 3:9
Context3:9 I have made your forehead harder than flint – like diamond! 6 Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, 7 for they are a rebellious house.”
Ezekiel 3:17
Context3:17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman 8 for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me.
Ezekiel 3:26
Context3:26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove 9 them, for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 4:5-6
Context4:5 I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days 10 for you – 390 days. 11 So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 12
4:6 “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days 13 – I have assigned one day for each year.
Ezekiel 4:16
Context4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply 14 in Jerusalem. 15 They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
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 16 will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.
Ezekiel 8:1
Context8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, 17 as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand 18 of the sovereign Lord seized me. 19
Ezekiel 10:2
Context10:2 The Lord 20 said to the man dressed in linen, “Go between the wheelwork 21 underneath the cherubim. 22 Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.
Ezekiel 11:5
Context11:5 Then the Spirit of the Lord came 23 upon me and said to me, “Say: This is what the Lord says: ‘This is what you are thinking, 24 O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds. 25
Ezekiel 11:7
Context11:7 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped 26 in the midst of the city 27 are the meat, and this city 28 is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. 29
Ezekiel 11:12
Context11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”
Ezekiel 11:24
Context11:24 Then a wind 30 lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, 31 in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God.
Then the vision I had seen went up from me.
Ezekiel 12:23
Context12:23 Therefore tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: I hereby end this proverb; they will not recite it in Israel any longer.’ But say to them, ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled. 32
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 13:13
Context13:13 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.
Ezekiel 13:22
Context13:22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.
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 33 right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek 34 me?
Ezekiel 14:11
Context14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, 35 declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 14:13
Context14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, 36 cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
Ezekiel 14:16
Context14:16 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate.
Ezekiel 14:18
Context14:18 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters – they would save only their own lives.
Ezekiel 14:20-21
Context14:20 Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.
14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem 37 to kill both people and animals!
Ezekiel 16:7
Context16:7 I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.
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 38 with them.
Ezekiel 16:39
Context16:39 I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:41
Context16:41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients. 39
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 17:16
Context17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city 40 of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!
Ezekiel 17:21
Context17:21 All the choice men 41 among his troops will die 42 by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 17:23
Context17:23 I will plant it on a high mountain of Israel,
and it will raise branches and produce fruit and become a beautiful cedar.
Every bird will live under it;
Every winged creature will live in the shade of its branches.
Ezekiel 18:30
Context18:30 “Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, 43 O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent 44 and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity. 45
Ezekiel 20:34
Context20:34 I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!
Ezekiel 21:4
Context21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone 46 from the south 47 to the north.
Ezekiel 21:15
Context21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.
At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.
Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!
Ezekiel 22:22
Context22:22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.’”
Ezekiel 23:27-28
Context23:27 So I will put an end to your obscene conduct and your prostitution which you have practiced in the land of Egypt. 48 You will not seek their help 49 or remember Egypt anymore.
23:28 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 50 I am about to deliver you over to 51 those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.
Ezekiel 24:16
Context24:16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, 52 but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.
Ezekiel 24:24
Context24:24 Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 24:27
Context24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; 53 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 25:4
Context25:4 So take note, 54 I am about to make you slaves of 55 the tribes 56 of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.
Ezekiel 25:9
Context25:9 So look, I am about to open up Moab’s flank, 57 eliminating the cities, 58 including its frontier cities, 59 the beauty of the land – Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.
Ezekiel 25:14
Context25:14 I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience 60 my vengeance, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 26:2
Context26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre 61 has said about Jerusalem, 62 ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, 63 now that she 64 has been destroyed,’
Ezekiel 26:5
Context26:5 She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,
Ezekiel 26:7
Context26:7 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note that 65 I am about to bring King Nebuchadrezzar 66 of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north, with horses, chariots, and horsemen, an army and hordes of people.
Ezekiel 27:3
Context27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance 67 of the sea, 68 merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”
Ezekiel 28:7
Context28:7 I am about to bring foreigners 69 against you, the most terrifying of nations.
They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, 70
and they will defile your splendor.
Ezekiel 28:9
Context28:9 Will you still say, “I am a god,” before the one who kills you –
though you are a man and not a god –
when you are in the power of those who wound you?
Ezekiel 28:16
Context28:16 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, 71 and you sinned;
so I defiled you and banished you 72 from the mountain of God –
the guardian cherub expelled you 73 from the midst of the stones of fire.
Ezekiel 28:24
Context28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers 74 or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. 75 Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 29:14-16
Context29:14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back 76 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. 29:16 It will never again be Israel’s source of confidence, but a reminder of how they sinned by turning to Egypt for help. 77 Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 30:18
Context30:18 In Tahpanhes the day will be dark 78
when I break the yoke of Egypt there.
Her confident pride will cease within her;
a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.
Ezekiel 30:21
Context30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm 79 of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 80 Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword.
Ezekiel 32:3
Context32:3 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘I will throw my net over you 81 in the assembly of many peoples;
and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
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 32:32
Context32:32 Indeed, I terrified him in the land of the living, yet he will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 33:2
Context33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, 82 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 83 for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must warn them on my behalf.
Ezekiel 33:13
Context33:13 Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.
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 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 84 pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 34:25
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 85 in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods. 86
Ezekiel 34:29
Context34:29 I will prepare for them a healthy 87 planting. They will no longer be victims 88 of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.
Ezekiel 35:12
Context35:12 Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”
Ezekiel 36:15
Context36:15 I will no longer subject you to 89 the nations’ insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave 90 your nation, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 36:38
Context36:38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem 91 during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 37:22
Context37:22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over them all. They will never again be two nations and never again be divided into two kingdoms. 92
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 38:4
Context38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types, 93 all of them armed with swords.
Ezekiel 39:1
Context39:1 “As for you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal!
Ezekiel 39:4
Context39:4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.
Ezekiel 40:3
Context40:3 When he brought me there, I saw 94 a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.
Ezekiel 40:5
Context40:5 I saw 95 a wall all around the outside of the temple. 96 In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet 97 long. He measured the thickness of the wall 98 as 10½ feet, 99 and its height as 10½ feet.
Ezekiel 40:24
Context40:24 Then he led me toward the south. I saw 100 a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.
Ezekiel 43:8
Context43:8 When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.
Ezekiel 43:27
Context43:27 When the prescribed period is over, 101 on the eighth day and thereafter the priests will offer up on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; 102 I will accept you, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 44:12
Context44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle 103 to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow 104 concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible 105 for their sin.
Ezekiel 46:19
Context46:19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which faced north. There I saw 106 a place at the extreme western end.
Ezekiel 46:21
Context46:21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court, and I noticed 107 that in every corner of the court there was a court.
Ezekiel 47:2
Context47:2 He led me out by way of the north gate and brought me around the outside of the outer gate that faces toward the east; I noticed 108 that the water was trickling out from the south side.
Ezekiel 47:5
Context47:5 Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.
1 tn Heb “Shaddai” (probably meaning “one of the mountain”), a title that depicts God as the sovereign ruler of the world who dispenses justice. The Old Greek translation omitted the phrase “voice of the Almighty.”
2 tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew word translated “tumult” is in Jer 11:16. It indicates a noise like that of the turmoil of a military camp or the sound of an army on the march.
3 tc The Hebrew reads “sons of,” while the LXX reads “house,” implying the more common phrase in Ezekiel. Either could be abbreviated with the first letter ב (bet). In preparation for the characterization “house of rebellion,” in vv. 5, 6, and 8, “house” is preferred (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:10 and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel [Hermeneia], 2:564-65).
4 tc Heb “to the rebellious nations.” The phrase “to the rebellious nations” is omitted in the LXX. Elsewhere in Ezekiel the singular word “nation” is used for Israel (36:13-15; 37:22). Here “nations” may have the meaning of “tribes” or refer to the two nations of Israel and Judah.
5 tc This word is omitted from the LXX.
tn The Hebrew term used here is the strongest word available for expressing a covenant violation. The word is used in the diplomatic arena to express a treaty violation (2 Kgs 1:1; 3:5, 7).
6 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.
7 tn Heb “of their faces.”
8 tn The literal role of a watchman is described in 2 Sam 18:24; 2 Kgs 9:17.
9 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.
10 tn Heb “I have assigned for you that the years of their iniquity be the number of days.” Num 14:33-34 is an example of the reverse, where the days were converted into years, the number of days spying out the land becoming the number of years of the wilderness wanderings.
11 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
sn The significance of the number 390 is not clear. The best explanation is that “days” are used figuratively for years and the number refers to the years of the sinfulness of Israel during the period of the First Temple. Some understand the number to refer to the length of the division of the northern and southern kingdoms down to the fall of Jerusalem (931-586
12 tn Or “When you have carried the iniquity of the house of Israel,” and continuing on to the next verse.
13 sn The number 40 may refer in general to the period of Judah’s exile using the number of years Israel was punished in the wilderness. In this case, however, one would need to translate, “you will bear the punishment of the house of Judah.”
14 tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.
15 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
16 tn Heb “the one who is left, the one who is spared.”
17 tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”
sn In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month would be September 17, 592
18 tn Or “power.”
sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).
19 tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.
20 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
21 tn The Hebrew term often refers to chariot wheels (Isa 28:28; Ezek 23:24; 26:10).
22 tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum
23 tn Heb “fell.”
24 tn The Hebrew verb commonly means “to say,” but may also mean “to think” (see also v. 3).
25 tn Heb “I know the steps of your spirits.”
26 tn Heb “placed.”
27 tn Heb “in its midst.”
29 tc Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).
30 tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.
31 tn Heb “to Chaldea.”
32 tn Heb “the days draw near and the word of every vision (draws near).”
33 tn Heb “the stumbling block of their iniquity.” This phrase is unique to the prophet Ezekiel.
34 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).
35 sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4.
36 tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”
37 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
38 tn Or perhaps “and worshiped them,” if the word “prostitution” is understood in a figurative rather than a literal sense (cf. CEV, NLT).
39 tn The words “to your clients” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.
40 tn Heb “place.”
41 tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhyv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharyv).
42 tn Heb “fall.”
43 tn Heb “ways.”
44 tn The verbs and persons in this verse are plural whereas the individual has been the subject of the chapter.
45 tn Or “leading to punishment.”
46 tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).
47 tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.
48 tn Heb “I will cause your obscene conduct to cease from you and your harlotry from the land of Egypt.”
49 tn Heb “lift your eyes to them.”
50 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
51 tn Heb “I am giving you into the hand of.”
52 tn Heb “a strike.”
53 tn Heb “your mouth will open.”
54 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something and has been translated here with a verb (so also throughout the chapter).
55 tn Heb “Look I am about to give you for a possession to.”
56 tn Heb “sons.”
57 tn Heb “shoulder.”
58 tn Heb “from the cities.” The verb “eliminating” has been added in the translation to reflect the privative use of the preposition (see BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b).
59 tn Heb “from its cities, from its end.”
60 tn Heb “know.”
61 sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.
62 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
63 tn Heb “I will be filled.”
64 sn That is, Jerusalem.
65 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something.
66 tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an an “r” rather than an “n.”
67 tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.
68 sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.
69 sn This is probably a reference to the Babylonians.
70 tn Heb “they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.”
71 tn Heb “they filled your midst with violence.”
72 tn Heb “I defiled you.” The presence of the preposition “from” following the verb indicates that a verb of motion is implied as well. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.
73 tn Heb “and I expelled you, O guardian cherub.” The Hebrew text takes the verb as first person and understands “guardian cherub” as a vocative, in apposition to the pronominal suffix on the verb. However, if the emendation in verse 14a is accepted (see the note above), then one may follow the LXX here as well and emend the verb to a third person perfect. In this case the subject of the verb is the guardian cherub. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.
74 sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.
75 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.”
76 tc Thus the Masoretic Text. The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as though the Hebrew read “cause to inhabit.”
77 tn Heb “reminding of iniquity when they turned after them.”
78 sn In Zeph 1:15 darkness is associated with the day of the
79 sn The expression “breaking the arm” indicates the removal of power (Ps 10:15; 37:17; Job 38:15; Jer 48:25).
80 sn This may refer to the event recorded in Jer 37:5.
81 tn The expression “throw my net” is common in Ezekiel (12:13; 17:20; 19:8).
82 tn Heb “sons of your people.”
83 sn Jeremiah (Jer 6:17) and Habakkuk (Hab 2:1) also served in the role of a watchman.
84 tn Heb “good.”
85 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).
86 sn The woods were typically considered to be places of danger (Ps 104:20-21; Jer 5:6).
87 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.
88 tn Heb “those gathered” for famine.
89 tn Heb “cause you to hear.”
90 tc The MT reads תַכְשִׁלִי (takhshiliy), a metathesis for תַשְׁכִלִי (tashkhiliy) from the root שָׁכַל (shakhal) which is used in each of the previous verses.
91 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
92 sn Jeremiah also attested to the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms (Jer 3:12, 14; 31:2-6).
93 sn The Hebrew text mentions two different types of shields here.
94 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
95 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
96 tn Heb “house.”
97 tn Heb “a measuring stick of six cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.
98 tn Heb “building.”
99 tn Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6, three times in v. 7, and once in v. 8).
100 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
101 tn Heb “and they will complete the days.”
102 sn The people also could partake of the food of the peace offering (Lev 3).
103 tn Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30).
104 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
105 tn Heb “will bear.”
106 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
107 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
108 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
