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 3:12
Context3:12 Then a wind lifted me up 3 and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place, 4
Ezekiel 3:14
Context3:14 A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, 5 my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully 6 on me.
Ezekiel 3:22-23
Context3:22 The hand 7 of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, 8 and I will speak with you there.” 3:23 So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, 9 and I threw myself face down.
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. 10
Ezekiel 6:14
Context6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them 11 and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, 12 in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 8:10
Context8:10 So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure 13 of creeping thing and beast – detestable images 14 – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around. 15
Ezekiel 8:18
Context8:18 Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare 16 them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them.”
Ezekiel 10:6
Context10:6 When the Lord 17 commanded the man dressed in linen, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man 18 went in and stood by one of the wheels. 19
Ezekiel 11:10
Context11:10 You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 11:19
Context11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; 20 I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies 21 and I will give them tender hearts, 22
Ezekiel 13:2
Context13:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to the prophets who prophesy from their imagination: 23 ‘Hear the word of the Lord!
Ezekiel 13:5
Context13:5 You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:7
Context13:7 Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say, “the Lord declares,” although I myself never spoke?
Ezekiel 13:21
Context13:21 I will tear off your headbands and rescue my people from your power; 24 they will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:23
Context13:23 Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you 25 will know that I am the Lord.’”
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 26 right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek 27 me?
Ezekiel 14:8
Context14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword 28 and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 16:33
Context16:33 All prostitutes receive payment, 29 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 17:21
Context17:21 All the choice men 30 among his troops will die 31 by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 18:12
Context18:12 oppresses the poor and the needy, 32 commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to 33 idols, performs abominable acts,
Ezekiel 18:14
Context18:14 “But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example. 34
Ezekiel 18:25
Context18:25 “Yet you say, ‘The Lord’s conduct 35 is unjust!’ Hear, O house of Israel: Is my conduct unjust? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?
Ezekiel 18:29
Context18:29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?
Ezekiel 20:1
Context20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, 36 some of the elders 37 of Israel came to seek 38 the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.
Ezekiel 20:12
Context20:12 I also gave them my Sabbaths 39 as a reminder of our relationship, 40 so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. 41
Ezekiel 20:16
Context20:16 I did this 42 because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols. 43
Ezekiel 20:18
Context20:18 “‘But I said to their children 44 in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, 45 nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:24
Context20:24 I did this 46 because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on 47 their fathers’ idols.
Ezekiel 20:42
Context20:42 Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore 48 to give to your fathers.
Ezekiel 21:3
Context21:3 and say to them, 49 ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, 50 I am against you. 51 I will draw my sword 52 from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 53
Ezekiel 21:32
Context21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –
your blood will stain the middle of the land; 54
you will no longer be remembered,
for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”
Ezekiel 22:14
Context22:14 Can your heart endure, 55 or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? 56 I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!
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 23:30
Context23:30 I will do these things to you 57 because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.
Ezekiel 23:36
Context23:36 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment 58 on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds!
Ezekiel 24:27
Context24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; 59 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 25:5
Context25:5 I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon 60 a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 25:17
Context25:17 I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes. 61 Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I exact my vengeance upon them.’”
Ezekiel 28:7
Context28:7 I am about to bring foreigners 62 against you, the most terrifying of nations.
They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, 63
and they will defile your splendor.
Ezekiel 28:23
Context28:23 I will send a plague into the city 64 and bloodshed into its streets;
the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it 65 from every side.
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 29:6
Context29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord
because they were a reed staff 66 for the house of Israel;
Ezekiel 29:9
Context29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”
Ezekiel 29:17
Context29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, 67 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 29:21
Context29:21 On that day I will make Israel powerful, 68 and I will give you the right to be heard 69 among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 30:12
Context30:12 I will dry up the waterways
and hand the land over to 70 evil men.
I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.
I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 30:20
Context30:20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, 71 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 31:1
Context31:1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, 72 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 32:1
Context32:1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, 73 the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 32:15
Context32:15 When I turn the land of Egypt into desolation
and the land is destitute of everything that fills it,
when I strike all those who live in it,
then they will know that I am the Lord.’
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.’ 74
Ezekiel 34:26
Context34:26 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. 75
Ezekiel 35:9-10
Context35:9 I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
35:10 “‘You said, “These two nations, these two lands 76 will be mine, and we will possess them,” 77 – although the Lord was there –
Ezekiel 36:1
Context36:1 “As for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord!
Ezekiel 36:18
Context36:18 So I poured my anger on them 78 because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. 79
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 36:26
Context36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone 80 from your body and give you a heart of flesh. 81
Ezekiel 36:38
Context36:38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem 82 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 37:4
Context37:4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Ezekiel 37:13
Context37:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.
Ezekiel 38:23
Context38:23 I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’
Ezekiel 39:6
Context39:6 I will send fire on Magog and those who live securely in the coastlands; then they will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 40:46
Context40:46 and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”
Ezekiel 43:9
Context43:9 Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.
Ezekiel 44:10
Context44:10 “‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for 83 their sin.
Ezekiel 45:4
Context45:4 It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. 84
Ezekiel 46:4
Context46:4 The burnt offering which the prince will offer to the Lord on the Sabbath day will be six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram.
Ezekiel 46:13
Context46:13 “‘You 85 will provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering daily to the Lord; morning by morning he will provide it.
Ezekiel 48:9
Context48:9 The allotment you set apart to the Lord will be eight and a quarter miles 86 in length and three and one-third miles 87 in width.
Ezekiel 48:14
Context48:14 They must not sell or exchange any of it; they must not transfer this choice portion of land, for it is set apart 88 to the Lord.
Ezekiel 48:20
Context48:20 The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles 89 square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.
Ezekiel 48:35
Context48:35 The circumference of the city will be six miles. 90 The name of the city from that day forward will be: ‘The Lord Is There.’” 91
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 sn See note on “wind” in 2:2.
4 tc This translation accepts the emendation suggested in BHS of בְּרוּם (bÿrum) for בָּרוּךְ (barukh). The letters mem (מ) and kaph (כ) were easily confused in the old script while בָּרוּךְ (“blessed be”) both implies a quotation which is out of place here and also does not fit the later phrase, “from its place,” which requires a verb of motion.
5 tn The traditional interpretation is that Ezekiel embarked on his mission with bitterness and anger, either reflecting God’s attitude toward the sinful people or his own feelings about having to carry out such an unpleasant task. L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:13) takes “bitterly” as a misplaced marginal note and understands the following word, normally translated “anger,” in the sense of fervor or passion. He translates, “I was passionately moved” (p. 4). Another option is to take the word translated “bitterly” as a verb meaning “strengthened” (attested in Ugaritic). See G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 152.
6 tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was on me heavily.” The “hand of the Lord” is a metaphor for his power or influence; the modifier conveys intensity.
sn In Ezekiel God’s “hand” being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (1:3; 3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).
7 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 (1:3; 3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).
8 sn Ezekiel had another vision at this location, recounted in Ezek 37.
9 tn Or “canal.”
10 tn Or “abominable idols.”
11 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).
12 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).
13 tn Or “pattern.”
14 tn Heb “detestable.” The word is often used to describe the figures of foreign gods.
15 sn These engravings were prohibited in the Mosaic law (Deut 4:16-18).
16 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
17 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the
18 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man dressed in linen) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
19 tn Heb “the wheel.”
20 tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew
21 tn Heb “their flesh.”
22 tn Heb “heart of flesh.”
23 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.
24 tn Heb “from your hand(s).” This refers to their power over the people.
25 tn The Hebrew verb is feminine plural, indicating that it is the false prophetesses who are addressed here.
26 tn Heb “the stumbling block of their iniquity.” This phrase is unique to the prophet Ezekiel.
27 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).
28 tn Heb “proverbs.”
29 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
30 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).
31 tn Heb “fall.”
32 sn The poor and needy are often mentioned together in the OT (Deut 24:14; Jer 22:16; Ezek 14:69; Ps 12:6; 35:10; 37:14).
33 tn Heb “lifts up his eyes.”
34 tn Heb “and he sees and does not do likewise.”
35 tn Heb “way.”
36 sn The date would be August 14th, 591
37 tn Heb “men from the elders.”
39 sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).
40 tn Heb “to become a sign between me and them.”
41 tn Or “set them apart.” The last phrase of verse 12 appears to be a citation of Exod 31:13.
42 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.
43 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.
44 tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.
45 tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.
46 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.
47 tn Or “they worshiped” (NCV, TEV, CEV); Heb “their eyes were on” or “were after” (cf. v. 16).
48 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
49 tn Heb “the land of Israel.”
50 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.
51 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.
52 sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.
53 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.
54 tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”
55 tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.
56 tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”
57 tn The infinitive absolute continues the sequence begun in v. 28: “Look here, I am about to deliver you.” See Joüon 2:430 §123.w.
58 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.
59 tn Heb “your mouth will open.”
60 tn Heb “the sons of Ammon.”
61 tn Heb “with acts of punishment of anger.”
62 sn This is probably a reference to the Babylonians.
63 tn Heb “they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.”
64 tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.
65 tn Heb “by a sword against it.”
67 sn April 26, 571
68 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.
69 tn Heb “I will grant you an open mouth.”
70 tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”
71 tn April 29, 587
72 sn June 21, 587
73 sn This would be March 3, 585
74 sn The judgments of vv. 27-29 echo the judgments of Lev 26:22, 25.
75 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).
76 sn The reference is to Israel and Judah.
77 tn Heb “it.”
78 sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.
79 sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.
80 sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).
81 sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.
82 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
83 tn Heb “will bear.”
84 tc The LXX apparently understood “open land” instead of “sanctuary.”
85 tc A few Hebrew
86 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
87 tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).
88 tn Or “holy.”
89 tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).
90 tn Heb “eighteen thousand cubits” (i.e., 9.45 kilometers).
91 sn See Rev 21:12-21.
