Discovery BoxEzekiel 2:1 
Context2:1 He said to me, “Son of man, 1 stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”
Ezekiel 2:9
Context2:9 Then I looked and realized a hand was stretched out to me, and in it was a written scroll.
Ezekiel 3:8
Context3:8 “I have made your face adamant 2 to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.
Ezekiel 6:8
Context6:8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. 3
Ezekiel 6:10
Context6:10 They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’ 4
Ezekiel 16:9
Context16:9 “‘Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with fragrant oil.
Ezekiel 16:12
Context16:12 I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
Ezekiel 18:3
Context18:3 “As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, 5 you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore!
Ezekiel 18:32
Context18:32 For I take no delight in the death of anyone, 6 declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live!
Ezekiel 20:25
Context20:25 I also gave 7 them decrees 8 which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.
Ezekiel 21:30
Context21:30 Return it to its sheath! 9
In the place where you were created, 10
in your native land, I will judge you.
Ezekiel 23:30-31
Context23:30 I will do these things to you 11 because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols. 23:31 You have followed the ways of your sister, so I will place her cup of judgment 12 in your hand.
Ezekiel 23:43
Context23:43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’
Ezekiel 24:22
Context24:22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others. 13
Ezekiel 26:13
Context26:13 I will silence 14 the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.
Ezekiel 31:9
Context31:9 I made it beautiful with its many branches;
all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.
Ezekiel 32:5
Context32:5 I will put your flesh on the mountains,
and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass. 15
Ezekiel 32:14
Context32:14 Then I will make their waters calm, 16
and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 34:11
Context34:11 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.
Ezekiel 35:13-14
Context35:13 You exalted yourselves against me with your speech 17 and hurled many insults against me 18 – I have heard them all! 35:14 This is what the sovereign Lord says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will turn you into a desolation.
Ezekiel 36:7
Context36:7 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow 19 that the nations around you will endure insults as well.
Ezekiel 36:21
Context36:21 I was concerned for my holy reputation 20 which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.
Ezekiel 37:3
Context37:3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said to him, “Sovereign Lord, you know.”
Ezekiel 37:27-28
Context37:27 My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people. 37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” 21
Ezekiel 39:3
Context39:3 I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.
Ezekiel 39:22
Context39:22 Then the house of Israel will know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.
1 sn The phrase son of man occurs ninety-three times in the book of Ezekiel. It simply means “human one,” and distinguishes the prophet from the nonhuman beings that are present in the world of his vision.
2 tn Heb “strong, resolute.”
3 tn Heb “when you have fugitives from the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the lands.”
4 tn Heb “not in vain did I speak to do to them this catastrophe.” The wording of the last half of v. 10 parallels God’s declaration after the sin of the golden calf (Exod 32:14).
5 tn This expression occurs often in Ezekiel (5:11; 14:16, 18, 20; 16:48; 17:16, 19; 20:3, 31, 33; 33:11, 27; 34:8; 35:6, 11).
6 tn Heb “the death of the one dying.”
7 tn Or “permitted.”
sn The content of the verse is shocking: that God would “give” bad decrees. This probably does not refer to the Mosaic law but to the practices of the Canaanites who were left in the land in order to test Israel. See Judg 2:20-23, the note on “decrees” in v. 25, and the note on “pass through the fire” in v. 26.
8 tn The Hebrew term חֻקּוֹת (khuqot; translated “statutes” elsewhere in this chapter) is normally feminine. Here Ezekiel changes the form to masculine: חֻקִּים (khuqim). Further, they are not called “my decrees” as vv. 11 and 13 refer to “my statutes.” The change is a signal that Ezekiel is not talking about the same statutes in vv. 11 and 13, which lead to life.
9 sn Once the Babylonian king’s sword (vv. 19-20) has carried out its assigned task, the Lord commands it to halt and announces that Babylon itself will also experience his judgment. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:28.
10 tn In the Hebrew text of vv. 30-32 the second person verbal and pronominal forms are feminine singular. This may indicate that the personified Babylonian sword is being addressed. The Hebrew word for “sword” (see v. 28) is feminine. However, it may refer to the Ammonites.
11 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.
12 tn Heb “her cup.” A cup of intoxicating strong drink is used, here and elsewhere, as a metaphor for judgment because both leave one confused and reeling. (See Jer 25:15, 17, 28; Hab 2:16.) The cup of wrath is a theme also found in the NT (Mark 14:36).
14 tn Heb “cause to end.”
15 tc The Hebrew text is difficult here, apparently meaning “your height.” Following Symmachus and the Syriac, it is preferable to emend the text to read “your maggots.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:203.
16 tn Heb “sink,” that is, to settle and become clear, not muddied.
17 tn Heb “your mouth.”
18 tn Heb “and you multiplied against me your words.” The Hebrew verb occurs only here and in Prov 27:6, where it refers to the “excessive” kisses of an enemy. The basic idea of the verb appears to be “to be abundant.” Here it occurs in the causative (Hiphil) stem.
19 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
20 tn Heb “name.”
21 sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.
