Ezekiel 1:7
Context1:7 Their legs were straight, but the soles of their feet were like calves’ feet. They gleamed 1 like polished bronze.
Ezekiel 5:3
Context5:3 But take a few strands of hair 2 from those and tie them in the ends of your garment. 3
Ezekiel 6:8
Context6:8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. 4
Ezekiel 16:29
Context16:29 Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, 5 but you were not satisfied there either.
Ezekiel 18:8
Context18:8 does not engage in usury or charge interest, 6 but refrains 7 from wrongdoing, promotes true justice 8 between men,
Ezekiel 23:14
Context23:14 But she increased her prostitution. She saw men carved on the wall, images of the Chaldeans carved in bright red, 9
1 sn The Hebrew verb translated gleamed occurs only here in the OT.
2 tn Heb “from there a few in number.” The word “strands” has been supplied in the translation for clarification.
3 sn Objects could be carried in the end of a garment (Hag 2:12).
4 tn Heb “when you have fugitives from the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the lands.”
5 tn Heb “Chaldea.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon (“Chaldeans”) and the territory from which they originated (“Chaldea”) is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon.
6 sn This law was given in Lev 25:36.
7 tn Heb, “turns back his hand.”
8 tn Heb “justice of truth.”
9 tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew term is in Jer 22:14.