Discovery BoxEzekiel 2:6 
Context2:6 But you, son of man, do not fear them, and do not fear their words – even though briers 1 and thorns 2 surround you and you live among scorpions – do not fear their words and do not be terrified of the looks they give you, 3 for they are a rebellious house!
Ezekiel 5:1
Context5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. 4 Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. 5 Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.
Ezekiel 8:12
Context8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? 6 For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”
Ezekiel 8:17
Context8:17 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! 7
Ezekiel 9:2
Context9:2 Next, I noticed 8 six men 9 coming from the direction of the upper gate 10 which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit 11 at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.
Ezekiel 11:15
Context11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, 12 your relatives, 13 and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem 14 have said, ‘They have gone 15 far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’
Ezekiel 12:3
Context12:3 “Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, 16 although they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 18:24
Context18:24 “But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die. 17
Ezekiel 20:3
Context20:3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, 18 declares the sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 21:19
Context21:19 “You, son of man, mark out two routes for the king of Babylon’s sword to take; both of them will originate in a single land. Make a signpost and put it at the beginning of the road leading to the city.
Ezekiel 24:25
Context24:25 “And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take 19 from them their stronghold – their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives, 20 as well as their sons and daughters: 21
Ezekiel 29:18
Context29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar 22 of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. 23 Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.
Ezekiel 32:2
Context32:2 “Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:
“‘You were like a lion 24 among the nations,
but you are a monster in the seas;
you thrash about in your streams,
stir up the water with your feet,
and muddy your 25 streams.
Ezekiel 33:10
Context33:10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what you have said: “Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, 26 and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”’
Ezekiel 33:12
Context33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, 27 ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. 28 As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. 29 The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness 30 if he sins.’ 31
Ezekiel 34:2
Context34:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds 32 of Israel; prophesy, and say to them – to the shepherds: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?
Ezekiel 37:9
Context37:9 He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, 33 – prophesy, son of man – and say to the breath: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.’”
Ezekiel 37:16
Context37:16 “As for you, son of man, take one branch, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another branch and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the branch of Ephraim and all the house of Israel associated with him.’
Ezekiel 39:17
Context39:17 “As for you, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter 34 which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.
Ezekiel 43:18
Context43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, 35
Ezekiel 44:5
Context44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, 36 watch closely and listen carefully to 37 everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances 38 to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.
1 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
2 tn The Hebrew term is found elsewhere in the OT only in Ezek 28:24.
sn Here thorns may be a figure for hostility (Ezek 28:24; Mic 7:4).
3 tn Heb “of their faces.”
4 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
5 tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”
6 tn Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
sn This type of image is explicitly prohibited in the Mosaic law (Lev 26:1).
7 tn It is not clear what the practice of “holding a branch to the nose” indicates. A possible parallel is the Syrian relief of a king holding a flower to his nose as he worships the stars (ANEP 281). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:145-46. The LXX glosses the expression as “Behold, they are like mockers.”
8 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
9 sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.
10 sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).
11 tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.
12 tc The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.
13 tc The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ (gÿ’ullatekha, “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ (galutekha) or having read the א (aleph) as an internal mater lectionis for holem.
14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
15 tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).
16 tn Heb “see.” This plays on the uses of “see” in v. 2. They will see his actions with their eyes and perhaps they will “see” with their mind, that is, understand or grasp the point.
17 tn Heb “because of them he will die.”
18 tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”
19 tn Heb “(Will) it not (be) in the day I take?”
20 tn Heb “the uplifting of their soul.” According to BDB 672 s.v. מַשָּׂא 2, the term “uplifting” refers to “that to which they lift up their soul, their heart’s desire.” However, this text is the only one listed for this use. It seems more likely that the term has its well-attested nuance of “burden, load,” here and refers to that which weighs them down emotionally and is a constant source of concern or worry.
21 tn In the Hebrew text there is no conjunction before “their sons and daughters.” For this reason one might assume that the preceding descriptive phrases refer to the sons and daughters, but verse 21 suggests otherwise. The descriptive phrases appear to refer to the “stronghold,” which parallels “my sanctuary” in verse 21. The children constitute a separate category.
22 tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).
23 sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571
map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
24 tn The lion was a figure of royalty (Ezek 19:1-9).
25 tc The Hebrew reads “their streams”; the LXX reads “your streams.”
26 tn Heb “(are) upon us.”
27 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
28 tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.
29 tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”
30 tn Heb “by it.”
31 tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”
32 tn The term shepherd is applied to kings in the ancient Near East. In the OT the
33 tn Or “spirit,” and several times in this verse.
34 tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).
35 sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.
36 tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).
37 tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”
38 tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.
