Discovery BoxEzekiel 3:6 
Context3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand 1 – surely if 2 I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
Ezekiel 4:8
Context4:8 Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege. 3
Ezekiel 4:12
Context4:12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.” 4
Ezekiel 11:9-11
Context11:9 ‘But I will take you out of the city. 5 And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you. 11:10 You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 11:11 This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not 6 be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.
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 16:16
Context16:16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his. 7
Ezekiel 16:25
Context16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced 8 your beauty when you spread 9 your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.
Ezekiel 16:28
Context16:28 You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:59
Context16:59 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.
Ezekiel 22:7
Context22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt 10 within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow 11 within you.
Ezekiel 22:9
Context22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. 12 Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; 13 they commit obscene acts among you. 14
Ezekiel 22:21
Context22:21 I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.
Ezekiel 23:49
Context23:49 They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. 15 Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 28:14
Context28:14 I placed you there with an anointed 16 guardian 17 cherub; 18
you were on the holy mountain of God;
you walked about amidst fiery stones.
Ezekiel 32:28
Context32:28 “But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.
Ezekiel 33:26
Context33:26 You rely 19 on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’
Ezekiel 36:24-25
Context36:24 “‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land. 36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water 20 and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.
Ezekiel 44:8
Context44:8 You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners 21 to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.
1 tn Heb “hear.”
2 tc The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.
3 sn The action surely refers to a series of daily acts rather than to a continuous period.
4 sn Human waste was to remain outside the camp of the Israelites according to Deut 23:15.
5 tn Heb “its midst.”
6 tn The Hebrew text does not have the negative particle, but it is implied. The negative particle in the previous line does double duty here.
7 tc The text as written in the MT is incomprehensible (“not coming [plural] and he will not”). Driver has suggested a copying error of similar-sounding words, specifically לֹא (lo’) for לוֹ (lo). The feminine participle בָאוֹת (va’ot) has also been read as the feminine perfect בָאת (va’t). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:228, n. 15.b, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:486, n. 137.
8 tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.
9 tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.
10 tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”
11 tn Widows and orphans are often coupled together in the OT (Deut 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12-13; Jer 7:6; 22:3). They represented all who were poor and vulnerable to economic exploitation.
12 tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”
13 tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.
14 sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.
15 tn Heb “and the sins of your idols you will bear.” By extension it can mean the punishment for the sins.
16 tn Or “winged”; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.
17 tn The meaning of this phrase in Hebrew is uncertain. The word translated here “guards” occurs in Exod 25:20 in reference to the cherubim “covering” the ark.
18 tn Heb “you (were) an anointed cherub that covers and I placed you.” In the Hebrew text the ruler of Tyre is equated with a cherub, and the verb “I placed you” is taken with what follows (“on the holy mountain of God”). However, this reading is problematic. The pronoun “you” at the beginning of verse 14 is feminine singular in the Hebrew text; elsewhere in this passage the ruler of Tyre is addressed with masculine singular forms. It is possible that the pronoun is a rare (see Deut 5:24; Num 11:15) or defectively written (see 1 Sam 24:19; Neh 9:6; Job 1:10; Ps 6:3; Eccl 7:22) masculine form, but it is more likely that the form should be repointed as the preposition “with” (see the LXX). In this case the ruler of Tyre is compared to the first man, not to a cherub. If this emendation is accepted, then the verb “I placed you” belongs with what precedes and concludes the first sentence in the verse. It is noteworthy that the verbs in the second and third lines of the verse also appear at the end of the sentence in the Hebrew text. The presence of a conjunction at the beginning of “I placed you” is problematic for the proposal, but it may reflect a later misunderstanding of the syntax of the verse. For a defense of the proposed emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.
19 tn Heb “stand.”
20 sn The Lord here uses a metaphor from the realm of ritual purification. For the use of water in ritual cleansing, see Exod 30:19-20; Lev 14:51; Num 19:18; Heb 10:22.
21 tc Instead of an energic nun (ן), the text may have read a third masculine plural suffix ם (mem), “them,” which was confused with ן (nun) in the old script. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:621.
tn This word is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied from the context.
