Discovery BoxEzekiel 2:2 
Context2:2 As he spoke to me, 1 a wind 2 came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.
Ezekiel 3:24
Context3:24 Then a wind 3 came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord 4 spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.
Ezekiel 16:10
Context16:10 I dressed you in embroidered clothing and put fine leather sandals on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 25:6
Context25:6 For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn 5 over the land of Israel,
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 40:6
Context40:6 Then he went to the gate facing east. He climbed its steps and measured the threshold of the gate as 10½ feet deep. 6
Ezekiel 40:13
Context40:13 He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet 7 from one entrance to the opposite one.
Ezekiel 40:23
Context40:23 Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet. 8
Ezekiel 40:27
Context40:27 The inner court had a gate toward the south; he measured it from gate to gate toward the south as 175 feet. 9
Ezekiel 41:1
Context41:1 Then he brought me to the outer sanctuary, and measured the jambs; the jambs were 10½ feet 10 wide on each side.
Ezekiel 41:8-9
Context41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick 11 of 10½ feet 12 high. 41:9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, 13 and the open area between the side chambers of the temple
Ezekiel 42:3
Context42:3 Opposite the 35 feet 14 that belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, gallery faced gallery in the three stories.
Ezekiel 42:7
Context42:7 As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet 15 long.
1 tc The phrase “as he spoke to me” is absent from the LXX.
2 tn Or “spirit.” NIV has “the Spirit,” but the absence of the article in the Hebrew text makes this unlikely. Elsewhere in Ezekiel the Lord’s Spirit is referred to as “the Spirit of the Lord” (11:5; 37:1), “the Spirit of God” (11:24), or “my (that is, the Lord’s) Spirit” (36:27; 37:14; 39:29). Some identify the “spirit” of 2:2 as the spirit that energized the living beings, however, that “spirit” is called “the spirit” (1:12, 20) or “the spirit of the living beings” (1:20-21; 10:17). Still others see the term as referring to an impersonal “spirit” of strength or courage, that is, the term may also be understood as a disposition or attitude. The Hebrew word often refers to a wind in Ezekiel (1:4; 5:10, 12; 12:4; 13:11, 13; 17:10, 21; 19:12; 27:26; 37:9). In 37:5-10 a “breath” originates in the “four winds” and is associated with the Lord’s life-giving breath (see v. 14). This breath enters into the dry bones and gives them life. In a similar fashion the breath of 2:2 (see also 3:24) energizes paralyzed Ezekiel. Breath and wind are related. On the one hand it is a more normal picture to think of breath rather than wind entering someone, but since wind represents an external force it seems more likely for wind rather than breath to stand someone up (unless we should understand it as a disposition). It may be that one should envision the breath of the speaker moving like a wind to revive Ezekiel, helping him to regain his breath and invigorating him to stand. A wind also transports the prophet from one place to another (3:12, 14; 8:3; 11:1, 24; 43:5).
3 tn See the note on “wind” in 2:2.
4 tn Heb “he.”
5 tn Heb “with all your scorn in (the) soul.”
6 tn The Hebrew text adds “the one threshold 10½ feet deep.” This is probably an accidental duplication of what precedes. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:517.
7 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
8 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
9 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
10 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
11 tn Heb “reed.”
12 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
13 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
14 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
15 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
