Discovery BoxEzekiel 2:3 
Context2:3 He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the house 1 of Israel, to rebellious nations 2 who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted 3 against me to this very day.
Ezekiel 3:3
Context3:3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, 4 and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.
Ezekiel 4:16
Context4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply 5 in Jerusalem. 6 They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
Ezekiel 8:5-6
Context8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward 7 the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.
8:6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people 8 of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!”
Ezekiel 9:3
Context9:3 Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple. 9 He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.
Ezekiel 10:2
Context10:2 The Lord 10 said to the man dressed in linen, “Go between the wheelwork 11 underneath the cherubim. 12 Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.
Ezekiel 10:7
Context10:7 Then one of the cherubim 13 stretched out his hand 14 toward the fire which was among the cherubim. He took some and put it into the hands of the man dressed in linen, who took it and left.
Ezekiel 18:19
Context18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer 15 for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.
Ezekiel 24:24
Context24:24 Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 26:12
Context26:12 They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious 16 homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw 17 into the water. 18
Ezekiel 29:9
Context29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”
Ezekiel 30:11
Context30:11 He and his people with him,
the most terrifying of the nations, 19
will be brought there to destroy the land.
They will draw their swords against Egypt,
and fill the land with corpses.
Ezekiel 30:24
Context30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon. 20
Ezekiel 32:32
Context32:32 Indeed, I terrified him in the land of the living, yet he will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 33:4
Context33:4 but there is one who hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning. Then the sword comes and sweeps him away. He will be responsible for his own death. 21
Ezekiel 34:12
Context34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. 22
Ezekiel 37:1
Context37:1 The hand 23 of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed 24 me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.
Ezekiel 37:11
Context37:11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
Ezekiel 40:2
Context40:2 By means of divine visions 25 he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, 26 and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.
Ezekiel 40:5
Context40:5 I saw 27 a wall all around the outside of the temple. 28 In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet 29 long. He measured the thickness of the wall 30 as 10½ feet, 31 and its height as 10½ feet.
Ezekiel 40:19
Context40:19 Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet 32 on the east and on the north.
Ezekiel 41:2-3
Context41:2 The width of the entrance was 17½ feet, 33 and the sides 34 of the entrance were 8¾ feet 35 on each side. He measured the length of the outer sanctuary as 70 feet, 36 and its width as 35 feet. 37
41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, 38 the entrance as 10½ feet, 39 and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet 40
Ezekiel 41:15
Context41:15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. 41
The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, 42
Ezekiel 41:22
Context41:22 The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet 43 high, with its length 3½ feet; 44 its corners, its length, 45 and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”
Ezekiel 42:1
Context42:1 Then he led me out to the outer court, toward the north, and brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and opposite the building on the north.
Ezekiel 44:3-4
Context44:3 Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal 46 before the Lord; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.”
44:4 Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed 47 the glory of the Lord filling the Lord’s temple, and I threw myself face down.
Ezekiel 45:25
Context45:25 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, 48 he will make the same provisions for the sin offering, burnt offering, and grain offering, and for the olive oil, for the seven days.
Ezekiel 46:5
Context46:5 The grain offering will be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs will be as much as he is able to give, 49 and a gallon 50 of olive oil with an ephah.
Ezekiel 46:17
Context46:17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his until the year of liberty; 51 then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.
Ezekiel 46:19
Context46:19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which faced north. There I saw 52 a place at the extreme western end.
Ezekiel 46:21
Context46:21 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me past the four corners of the court, and I noticed 53 that in every corner of the court there was a court.
Ezekiel 47:2
Context47:2 He led me out by way of the north gate and brought me around the outside of the outer gate that faces toward the east; I noticed 54 that the water was trickling out from the south side.
Ezekiel 47:5
Context47:5 Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.
Ezekiel 47:8
Context47:8 He said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the Arabah; when they enter the Dead Sea, 55 where the sea is stagnant, 56 the waters become fresh. 57
1 tc The Hebrew reads “sons of,” while the LXX reads “house,” implying the more common phrase in Ezekiel. Either could be abbreviated with the first letter ב (bet). In preparation for the characterization “house of rebellion,” in vv. 5, 6, and 8, “house” is preferred (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:10 and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel [Hermeneia], 2:564-65).
2 tc Heb “to the rebellious nations.” The phrase “to the rebellious nations” is omitted in the LXX. Elsewhere in Ezekiel the singular word “nation” is used for Israel (36:13-15; 37:22). Here “nations” may have the meaning of “tribes” or refer to the two nations of Israel and Judah.
3 tc This word is omitted from the LXX.
tn The Hebrew term used here is the strongest word available for expressing a covenant violation. The word is used in the diplomatic arena to express a treaty violation (2 Kgs 1:1; 3:5, 7).
4 tc Heb “I ate,” a first common singular preterite plus paragogic he (ה). The ancient versions read “I ate it,” which is certainly the meaning in the context, and indicates they read the he as a third feminine singular pronominal suffix. The Masoretes typically wrote a mappiq in the he for the pronominal suffix but apparently missed this one.
sn I ate it. A similar idea of consuming God’s word is found in Jer 15:16 and Rev 10:10, where it is also compared to honey and may be specifically reminiscent of this text.
5 tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.
6 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
7 tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”
8 tn Heb “house.”
9 tn Heb “house.”
10 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
11 tn The Hebrew term often refers to chariot wheels (Isa 28:28; Ezek 23:24; 26:10).
12 tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum
13 tn Heb “the cherub.”
14 tn The Hebrew text adds, “from among the cherubim.”
15 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”
16 tn Heb “desirable.”
17 tn Heb “set.”
18 tn Heb “into the midst of the water.”
19 tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).
20 tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Heb “his blood will be on his own head.”
22 sn The imagery may reflect the overthrow of the Israelites by the Babylonians in 587/6
23 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).
24 tn Heb “caused me to rest.”
25 tn The expression introduces the three major visions of Ezekiel (1:1; 8:3; 40:2).
26 tn The reference to a very high mountain is harmonious with Isa 2:2.
27 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
28 tn Heb “house.”
29 tn Heb “a measuring stick of six cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.
30 tn Heb “building.”
31 tn Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6, three times in v. 7, and once in v. 8).
32 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
33 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
34 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.
tn Or “sidewalls.”
35 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
36 tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
37 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
38 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
39 tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).
40 tn Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).
41 tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).
42 tc Some Hebrew
43 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).
44 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
45 tc So the Masoretic text. The LXX reads “base.”
46 tn Heb “to eat bread.”
47 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
48 sn That is, the Feast of Temporary Shelters, traditionally known as the Feast of Tabernacles (Exod 23:16; 34:22; Deut 16:16).
49 tn Or “as much as he wishes.” Heb “a gift of his hand.”
50 tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.
51 sn That is, the year of Jubilee (Lev 25:8-15).
52 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
53 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
54 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
55 tn Heb “the sea,” referring to the Dead Sea. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.
56 tn Heb “to the sea, those which are brought out.” The reading makes no sense. The text is best emended to read “filthy” (i.e., stagnant). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:273.
57 tn Heb “the waters become healed.”
