Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:8 
Context1:8 They had human hands 1 under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,
Ezekiel 1:19-20
Context1:19 When the living beings moved, the wheels beside them moved; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up too. 1:20 Wherever the spirit 2 would go, they would go, 3 and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit 4 of the living being was in the wheel.
Ezekiel 2:4
Context2:4 The people 5 to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, 6 and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ 7
Ezekiel 3:6
Context3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand 8 – surely if 9 I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
Ezekiel 3:13
Context3:13 and the sound of the living beings’ wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.
Ezekiel 3:15
Context3:15 I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, 10 who lived by the Kebar River. 11 I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days. 12
Ezekiel 4:12-13
Context4:12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.” 13 4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations 14 where I will banish them.”
Ezekiel 7:11
Context7:11 Violence 15 has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left 16 – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. 17
Ezekiel 7:16
Context7:16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.
Ezekiel 7:18
Context7:18 They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald. 18
Ezekiel 7:20
Context7:20 They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, 19 and with it they made their abominable images – their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.
Ezekiel 7:22
Context7:22 I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. 20 Vandals will enter it and desecrate it. 21
Ezekiel 9:7
Context9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.
Ezekiel 10:1
Context10:1 As I watched, I saw 22 on the platform 23 above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.
Ezekiel 10:12
Context10:12 along with their entire bodies, 24 their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.
Ezekiel 10:16
Context10:16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the cherubim spread 25 their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not move from their side.
Ezekiel 11:20-21
Context11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. 26 11:21 But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, 27 says the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 12:10-11
Context12:10 Say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The prince will raise this burden in Jerusalem, 28 and all the house of Israel within it.’ 29 12:11 Say, ‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’
Ezekiel 12:14
Context12:14 All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 13:17
Context13:17 “As for you, son of man, turn toward 30 the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. 31 Prophesy against them
Ezekiel 16:16
Context16:16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his. 32
Ezekiel 16:28
Context16:28 You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:53
Context16:53 “‘I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters (along with your fortunes among them),
Ezekiel 18:9
Context18:9 and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. 33 That man 34 is righteous; he will certainly live, 35 declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 18:11
Context18:11 (though the father did not do any of them). 36 He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, 37 defiles his neighbor’s wife,
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. 38
Ezekiel 20:4
Context20:4 “Are you willing to pronounce judgment? 39 Are you willing to pronounce judgment, son of man? Then confront them with the abominable practices of their fathers,
Ezekiel 20:14
Context20:14 I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:29
Context20:29 So I said to them, What is this high place you go to?’” (So it is called “High Place” 40 to this day.)
Ezekiel 23:12
Context23:12 She lusted after the Assyrians – governors and officials, warriors in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
Ezekiel 23:15
Context23:15 wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians 41 whose native land is Chaldea.
Ezekiel 23:36
Context23:36 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment 42 on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds!
Ezekiel 23:40
Context23:40 “They even sent for men from far away; when the messenger arrived, those men set out. 43 For them you bathed, 44 painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with jewelry.
Ezekiel 23:45
Context23:45 But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, 45 because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Ezekiel 25:12
Context25:12 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Edom 46 has taken vengeance against the house of Judah; they have made themselves fully culpable 47 by taking vengeance 48 on them. 49
Ezekiel 30:5
Context30:5 Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the foreigners, 50 Libya, and the people 51 of the covenant land 52 will die by the sword along with them.
Ezekiel 30:26
Context30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 32:13
Context32:13 I will destroy all its cattle beside the plentiful waters;
and no human foot will disturb 53 the waters 54 again,
nor will the hooves of cattle disturb them.
Ezekiel 32:31
Context32:31 “Pharaoh will see them and be consoled over all his hordes who were killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 34:20-21
Context34:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 34:21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad, 55
Ezekiel 34:24
Context34:24 I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince 56 among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 34:30
Context34:30 Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, 57 and that they are my people, the house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. 58
Ezekiel 35:10
Context35:10 “‘You said, “These two nations, these two lands 59 will be mine, and we will possess them,” 60 – although the Lord was there –
Ezekiel 36:12
Context36:12 I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.
Ezekiel 36:18
Context36:18 So I poured my anger on them 61 because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. 62
Ezekiel 37:2
Context37:2 He made me walk all around among them. 63 I realized 64 there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.
Ezekiel 37:10
Context37:10 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army.
Ezekiel 39:21
Context39:21 “I will display my majesty 65 among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited 66 among them.
Ezekiel 39:26
Context39:26 They will bear their shame for all their unfaithful acts against me, when they live securely on their land with no one to make them afraid.
Ezekiel 39:29
Context39:29 I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, 67 declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 40:26
Context40:26 There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.
Ezekiel 42:5
Context42:5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.
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 44:14
Context44:14 Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.
Ezekiel 44:23
Context44:23 Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean. 68
Ezekiel 44:28
Context44:28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property. 69
1 tc The MT reads “his hand” while many Hebrew
2 tn Or “wind”; the same Hebrew word can be translated as either “wind” or “spirit” depending on the context.
3 tc The MT adds the additional phrase “the spirit would go,” which seems unduly redundant here and may be dittographic.
4 tn Or “wind.” The Hebrew is difficult since the text presents four creatures and then talks about “the spirit” (singular) of “the living being” (singular). According to M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:45) the Targum interprets this as “will.” Greenberg views this as the spirit of the one enthroned above the creatures, but one would not expect the article when the one enthroned has not yet been introduced.
5 tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son.
6 tc Heb “stern of face and hard of heart.” The phrases “stern of face” and “hard of heart” are lacking in the LXX.
7 tn The phrase “thus says [the
8 tn Heb “hear.”
9 tc The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.
10 sn The name “Tel Abib” is a transliteration of an Akkadian term meaning “mound of the flood,” i.e., an ancient mound. It is not to be confused with the modern city of Tel Aviv in Israel.
11 tn Or “canal.”
12 sn A similar response to a divine encounter is found in Acts 9:8-9.
13 sn Human waste was to remain outside the camp of the Israelites according to Deut 23:15.
14 sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).
15 tn Heb “the violence.”
16 tc The LXX reads “he will crush the wicked rod without confusion or haste.”
tn The verb has been supplied for the Hebrew text to clarify the sense.
17 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
18 tn Heb “baldness will be on their heads.”
19 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.
20 sn My treasured place probably refers to the temple (however, cf. NLT “my treasured land”).
21 sn Since the pronouns “it” are both feminine, they do not refer to the masculine “my treasured place”; instead they probably refer to Jerusalem or the land, both of which are feminine in Hebrew.
22 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
23 tn Or “like a dome.” See 1:22-26.
24 tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.
25 tn Heb “lifted.”
26 sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).
27 tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”
28 tc The nearly incoherent Hebrew reads “The prince is this burden (prophetic oracle?) in Jerusalem.” The Targum, which may only be trying to make sense of a very difficult text, says “Concerning the prince is this oracle,” assuming the addition of a preposition. This would be the only case where Ezekiel uses this term for a prophetic oracle. The LXX reads the word for “burden” as a synonym for leader, as both words are built on the same root (נָשִׂיא, nasi’), but the verse is still incoherent because it is only a phrase with no verb. The current translation assumes that the verb יִשָּׂא (yisa’) from the root נָשִׂיא has dropped out due to homoioteleuton. If indeed the verb has dropped out (the syntax of the verbless clause being the problem), then context clearly suggests that it be a form of נָשִׂיא (see vv. 7 and 12). Placing the verb between the subject and object would result in three consecutive words based on the root נָשִׂיא and an environment conducive to an omission in copying: הַנָּשִׂיא יִשָּׁא הַמַּשָּׂא הַזֶּה (hannasi’ yisha’ hammasa’ hazzeh, “the Prince will raise this burden”).
sn The prince in Jerusalem refers to King Zedekiah.
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
29 tc The MT reads “within them.” Possibly a scribe copied this form from the following verse “among them,” but only “within it” makes sense in this context.
30 tn Heb “set your face against.”
31 tn Heb “from their heart.”
32 tc The text as written in the MT is incomprehensible (“not coming [plural] and he will not”). Driver has suggested a copying error of similar-sounding words, specifically לֹא (lo’) for לוֹ (lo). The feminine participle בָאוֹת (va’ot) has also been read as the feminine perfect בָאת (va’t). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:228, n. 15.b, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:486, n. 137.
33 tc The MT reads לַעֲשׂוֹת אֱמֶת (la’asot ’emet, “to do with integrity”), while the LXX reads “to do them,” presupposing לַעֲשׂוֹת אֹתָם (la’asot ’otam). The ם (mem) and ת (tav) have been reversed in the MT. The LXX refelcts the original, supported by similar phrasing in Ezekiel 11:20; 20:19.
34 tn Heb “he.”
35 tn Heb “living, he will live.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.
36 tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.
37 sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.
38 tn Heb “and he sees and does not do likewise.”
39 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.
40 tn The Hebrew word (“Bamah”) means “high place.”
41 tn Heb “the sons of Babel.”
42 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.
43 tn Heb “to whom a messenger was sent, and look, they came.” Foreign alliances are in view here.
44 tn The Hebrew verb form is feminine singular, indicating that Oholibah (Judah) is specifically addressed here. This address continues through verse 42a (note “her”), but then both sisters are described in verse 42b, where the feminine pronouns are again plural.
45 tn Heb “and upright men will judge them (with) the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of those who shed blood.”
46 sn Edom was located south of Moab.
47 tn Heb “and they have become guilty, becoming guilty.” The infinitive absolute following the finite verb makes the statement emphatic and draws attention to the degree of guilt incurred by Edom due to its actions.
48 tn Heb “and they have taken vengeance.”
49 sn Edom apparently in some way assisted in the destruction of Jerusalem in 587/6
50 tn The same expression appears in Exod 12:38; Jer 25:20; 50:37; Neh 13:3. It may refer to foreign mercenaries serving in the armies of the nations listed here.
51 tn Heb “sons.”
52 tn The expression “sons of the covenant land” possibly refers to Jews living in Egypt (Jer 44).
53 tn Heb “muddy.”
54 tn Heb “them,” that is, the waters mentioned in the previous line. The translation clarifies the referent.
55 tn Heb “outside.”
56 sn The messianic king (“David”) is called both “king” and “prince” in 37:24-25. The use of the term “prince” for this king facilitates the contrast between this ideal ruler and the Davidic “princes” denounced in earlier prophecies (see 7:27; 12:10, 12; 19:1; 21:25; 22:6, 25).
57 sn A promise given to Abraham (Gen 15:7) and his descendants (Gen 15:8; Exod 6:7).
58 sn The blessings described in vv. 25-30 are those promised for obedience in Lev 26:4-13.
59 sn The reference is to Israel and Judah.
60 tn Heb “it.”
61 sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.
62 sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.
63 tn Heb “and he made me pass over them, around, around.”
64 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and is here translated as “I realized” because it results from Ezekiel’s recognition of the situation around him. In Hebrew, the exclamation is repeated in the following sentence.
65 tn Or “my glory.”
66 tn Heb “my hand which I have placed.”
67 sn See Ezek 11:19; 37:14.
68 sn This task was a fundamental role of the priest (Lev 10:10).
69 sn See Num 18:20; Deut 10:9; 18:2; Josh 13:33; 18:7.
