Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:28 
Context1:28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. 1 This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw 2 it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.
Ezekiel 4:3
Context4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan 3 and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign 4 for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:6
Context12:6 While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. 5 You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground 6 because I have made you an object lesson 7 to the house of Israel.”
Ezekiel 12:12
Context12:12 “The prince 8 who is among them will raise his belongings 9 onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He 10 will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.
Ezekiel 14:4
Context14:4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry. 11
Ezekiel 14:7
Context14:7 For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.
Ezekiel 38:20
Context38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake 12 at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs 13 will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
Ezekiel 39:23
Context39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, 14 for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.
Ezekiel 42:13
Context42:13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests 15 who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings – the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.
1 sn Reference to the glowing substance and the brilliant light and storm phenomena in vv. 27-28a echoes in reverse order the occurrence of these phenomena in v. 4.
2 tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.
3 tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.
4 tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.
5 tn Apart from this context the Hebrew term occurs only in Gen 15:17 in reference to the darkness after sunset. It may mean twilight.
6 tn Or “land” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
7 sn See also Ezek 12:11, 24:24, 27.
8 sn The prince is a reference to Zedekiah.
9 tn The words “his belongings” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.
10 tc The MT reads “they”; the LXX and Syriac read “he.”
11 tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.”
12 tn Or “tremble.”
13 tn The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14.
14 tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
15 sn The priests are from the Zadokite family (Ezek 40:6; 44:15).
