Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:3 
Context1:3 the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel 1 the son of Buzi, 2 at the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. 3 The hand 4 of the Lord came on him there).
Ezekiel 6:4
Context6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. 5
Ezekiel 7:20
Context7:20 They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, 6 and with it they made their abominable images – their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.
Ezekiel 10:4
Context10:4 Then the glory of the Lord arose from the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud while the court was filled with the brightness of the Lord’s glory.
Ezekiel 12:16
Context12:16 But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 13:6
Context13:6 They see delusion and their omens are a lie. 7 They say, “the Lord declares,” though the Lord has not sent them; 8 yet they expect their word to be confirmed. 9
Ezekiel 20:26
Context20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices 10 – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire 11 – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ 12
Ezekiel 20:32
Context20:32 “‘What you plan 13 will never happen. You say, “We will be 14 like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.” 15
Ezekiel 37:1
Context37:1 The hand 16 of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed 17 me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.
Ezekiel 43:15
Context43:15 and the altar hearth, 7 feet, and from the altar hearth four horns projecting upward.
Ezekiel 43:24
Context43:24 You will present them before the Lord, and the priests will scatter salt on them 18 and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.
Ezekiel 44:4
Context44:4 Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed 19 the glory of the Lord filling the Lord’s temple, and I threw myself face down.
Ezekiel 44:29
Context44:29 They may eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel will be theirs.
1 sn The prophet’s name, Ezekiel, means in Hebrew “May God strengthen.”
2 tn Or “to Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest.”
3 tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon, “Chaldeans” is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon. The Babylonians worked with the Medes to destroy the Assyrian Empire near the end of the 7th century
4 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).
5 tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.
sn This verse is probably based on Lev 26:30 in which God forecasts that he will destroy their high places, cut off their incense altars, and set their corpses by the corpses of their idols.
6 tc The MT reads “he set up the beauty of his ornament as pride.” The verb may be repointed as plural without changing the consonantal text. The Syriac reads “their ornaments” (plural), implying עֶדְיָם (’edyam) rather than עֶדְיוֹ (’edyo) and meaning “they were proud of their beautiful ornaments.” This understands “ornaments” in the common sense of women’s jewelry, which then were used to make idols. The singular suffix “his ornaments” would refer to using items from the temple treasury to make idols. D. I. Block points out the foreshadowing of Ezek 16:17 which, with Rashi and the Targum, supports the understanding that this is a reference to temple items. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:265.
7 sn The same description of a false prophet is found in Micah 2:11.
8 sn The
9 tn Or “confirmed”; NIV “to be fulfilled”; TEV “to come true.”
10 tn Or “gifts.”
11 sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).
12 sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.
13 tn Heb “what comes upon your mind.”
14 tn The Hebrew could also read: “Let us be.”
15 tn Heb “serving wood and stone.”
sn This verse echoes the content of 1 Sam 8:20.
16 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).
17 tn Heb “caused me to rest.”
18 sn It is likely that salt was used with sacrificial meals (Num 18:19; 2 Chr 13:5).
19 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
