Discovery BoxEzekiel 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, 1 and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.
Ezekiel 3:7
Context3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, 2 because they are not willing to listen to me, 3 for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. 4
Ezekiel 3:17
Context3:17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman 5 for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me.
Ezekiel 4:16
Context4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply 6 in Jerusalem. 7 They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
Ezekiel 8:5
Context8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward 8 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.
Ezekiel 14:3
Context14:3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity 9 right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek 10 me?
Ezekiel 14:11
Context14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, 11 declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 14:13
Context14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, 12 cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
Ezekiel 16:20
Context16:20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them 13 as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough,
Ezekiel 17:20
Context17:20 I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.
Ezekiel 20:1
Context20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, 14 some of the elders 15 of Israel came to seek 16 the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.
Ezekiel 22:12
Context22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; 17 you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, 18 declares the sovereign Lord. 19
Ezekiel 22:18
Context22:18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; 20 they are the worthless slag of silver.
Ezekiel 22:30
Context22:30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. 21
Ezekiel 23:37
Context23:37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, 22 they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. 23
Ezekiel 26:2
Context26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre 24 has said about Jerusalem, 25 ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, 26 now that she 27 has been destroyed,’
Ezekiel 30:9
Context30:9 On that day messengers will go out from me in ships to frighten overly confident Ethiopia; panic will overtake them on the day of Egypt’s doom; 28 for beware – it is coming!
Ezekiel 33:21
Context33:21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, 29 a refugee came to me from Jerusalem 30 saying, “The city has been defeated!” 31
Ezekiel 36:37
Context36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: 32 I will multiply their people like sheep. 33
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 40:3
Context40:3 When he brought me there, I saw 34 a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.
Ezekiel 40:24
Context40:24 Then he led me toward the south. I saw 35 a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.
Ezekiel 41:22
Context41:22 The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet 36 high, with its length 3½ feet; 37 its corners, its length, 38 and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”
Ezekiel 43:8
Context43:8 When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.
Ezekiel 44:2
Context44:2 The Lord said to me: “This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.
Ezekiel 44:4
Context44:4 Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed 39 the glory of the Lord filling the Lord’s temple, and I threw myself face down.
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 40 a place at the extreme western end.
Ezekiel 47:3
Context47:3 When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, 41 and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.
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, 42 where the sea is stagnant, 43 the waters become fresh. 44
1 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.
2 sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.
3 sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.
4 tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”
5 tn The literal role of a watchman is described in 2 Sam 18:24; 2 Kgs 9:17.
6 tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.
7 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
8 tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”
9 tn Heb “the stumbling block of their iniquity.” This phrase is unique to the prophet Ezekiel.
10 tn Or “I will not reveal myself to them.” The Hebrew word is used in a technical sense here of seeking an oracle from a prophet (2 Kgs 1:16; 3:11; 8:8).
11 sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4.
12 tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”
13 sn The sacrifice of children was prohibited in Lev 18:21; 20:2; Deut 12:31; 18:10.
14 sn The date would be August 14th, 591
15 tn Heb “men from the elders.”
17 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.
18 sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.
19 tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.
20 tn For similar imagery, see Isa 1:21-26; Jer 6:27-30.
21 tn Heb “I did not find.”
22 sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.
23 tn Heb “they have passed to them for food.” The verb is commonly taken to refer to passing children through fire, especially as an offering to the pagan god Molech. See Jer 32:35.
24 sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.
25 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
26 tn Heb “I will be filled.”
27 sn That is, Jerusalem.
28 tn Heb “in the day of Egypt.” The word “doom” has been added in the translation to clarify the nature of this day.
29 tn January 19, 585
30 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
31 tn Heb “smitten.”
32 tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”
33 sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”
34 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
35 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
36 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).
37 tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).
38 tc So the Masoretic text. The LXX reads “base.”
39 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
40 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
41 tn Heb “one thousand cubits” (i.e., 525 meters); this phrase occurs three times in the next two verses.
42 tn Heb “the sea,” referring to the Dead Sea. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.
43 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.
44 tn Heb “the waters become healed.”
