Discovery BoxEzekiel 3:7 
Context3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, 1 because they are not willing to listen to me, 2 for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. 3
Ezekiel 4:6
Context4:6 “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days 4 – I have assigned one day for each year.
Ezekiel 8:6
Context8:6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people 5 of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!”
Ezekiel 9:6
Context9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
Ezekiel 11:7
Context11:7 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped 6 in the midst of the city 7 are the meat, and this city 8 is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. 9
Ezekiel 12:16
Context12:16 But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 12:23
Context12:23 Therefore tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: I hereby end this proverb; they will not recite it in Israel any longer.’ But say to them, ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled. 10
Ezekiel 16:7
Context16:7 I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:15
Context16:15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty 11 became his.
Ezekiel 16:33
Context16:33 All prostitutes receive payment, 12 but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!
Ezekiel 16:49
Context16:49 “‘See here – this was the iniquity 13 of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help 14 the poor and needy.
Ezekiel 16:61
Context16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.
Ezekiel 17:10
Context17:10 Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper?
Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it?
Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”
Ezekiel 18:21
Context18:21 “But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
Ezekiel 19:12
Context19:12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground.
The east wind 15 dried up its fruit;
its strong branches broke off and withered –
a fire consumed them.
Ezekiel 20:22
Context20:22 But I refrained from doing so, 16 and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
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. 17
Ezekiel 23:11
Context23:11 “Her sister Oholibah watched this, 18 but she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister had been, and her acts of prostitution were more numerous than those of her sister.
Ezekiel 24:13
Context24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. 19
I tried to cleanse you, 20 but you are not clean.
You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness 21
until I have exhausted my anger on you.
Ezekiel 24:16-17
Context24:16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, 22 but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears. 24:17 Groan in silence for the dead, 23 but do not perform mourning rites. 24 Bind on your turban 25 and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip 26 and do not eat food brought by others.” 27
Ezekiel 24:23
Context24:23 Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you will not mourn or weep, but you will rot 28 for your iniquities 29 and groan among yourselves.
Ezekiel 29:16
Context29:16 It will never again be Israel’s source of confidence, but a reminder of how they sinned by turning to Egypt for help. 30 Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’”
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. 31
Ezekiel 33:4-5
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. 32 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, so he is responsible for himself. 33 If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved his life.
Ezekiel 33:8
Context33:8 When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you must certainly die,’ 34 and you do not warn 35 the wicked about his behavior, 36 the wicked man will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death. 37
Ezekiel 33:13
Context33:13 Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.
Ezekiel 33:30-31
Context33:30 “But as for you, son of man, your people 38 (who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another, 39 ‘Come hear the word that comes 40 from the Lord.’ 33:31 They come to you in crowds, 41 and they sit in front of you as 42 my people. They hear your words, but do not obey 43 them. For they talk lustfully, 44 and their heart is set on 45 their own advantage. 46
Ezekiel 34:4
Context34:4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness 47 you have ruled over them.
Ezekiel 34:16
Context34:16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!
Ezekiel 36:20
Context36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’
Ezekiel 44:22
Context44:22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel 48 or a widow who is a priest’s widow.
Ezekiel 45:8
Context45:8 of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes.
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; 49 then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.
1 sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.
2 sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.
3 tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”
4 sn The number 40 may refer in general to the period of Judah’s exile using the number of years Israel was punished in the wilderness. In this case, however, one would need to translate, “you will bear the punishment of the house of Judah.”
5 tn Heb “house.”
6 tn Heb “placed.”
7 tn Heb “in its midst.”
9 tc Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).
10 tn Heb “the days draw near and the word of every vision (draws near).”
11 tn Heb “it” (so KJV, ASV); the referent (the beauty in which the prostitute trusted, see the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
13 tn Or “guilt.”
14 tn Heb “strengthen the hand of.”
15 sn The east wind symbolizes the Babylonians.
16 tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.
17 tn Heb “I did not find.”
18 tn The word “this” is not in the original text.
19 tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”
20 tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.
21 tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”
22 tn Heb “a strike.”
23 tn Or “Groan silently. As to the dead….” Cf. M. Greenberg’s suggestion that דֹּם מֵתִים (dom metim) be taken together and דֹּם be derived from ָדּמַם (damam, “to moan, murmur”). See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:508.
24 tn Heb “(For) the dead mourning you shall not conduct.” In the Hebrew text the word translated “dead” is plural, indicating that mourning rites are in view. Such rites would involve outward demonstrations of one’s sorrow, including wailing and weeping.
25 sn The turban would normally be removed for mourning (Josh 7:6; 1 Sam 4:12).
26 sn Mourning rites included covering the lower part of the face. See Lev 13:45.
27 tn Heb “the bread of men.” The translation follows the suggestion accepted by M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 2:509) that this refers to a meal brought by comforters to the one mourning. Some repoint the consonantal text to read “the bread of despair” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:56), while others, with support from the Targum and Vulgate, emend the consonantal text to read “the bread of mourners” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:784).
28 tn The same verb appears in 4:17 and 33:10.
29 tn Or “in your punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
30 tn Heb “reminding of iniquity when they turned after them.”
31 tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
32 tn Heb “his blood will be on his own head.”
33 tn Heb “his blood will be on him.”
34 tn The same expression occurs in Gen 2:17.
35 tn Heb “and you do not speak to warn.”
36 tn Heb “way.”
37 tn Heb “and his blood from your hand I will seek.”
38 tn Heb “sons of your people.”
39 tn Heb “one to one, a man to his brother.”
40 tn Heb “comes out.”
41 tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.
42 tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.
43 tn Heb “do.”
44 tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”
45 tn Heb “goes after.”
46 tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.
47 tn The term translated “harshness” is used to describe the oppression the Israelites suffered as slaves in Egypt (Exod 1:13).
48 tn Heb “from the offspring of the house of Israel.”
49 sn That is, the year of Jubilee (Lev 25:8-15).
