Discovery BoxEzekiel 4:10 
Context4:10 The food you eat will be eight ounces 1 a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed 2 times.
Ezekiel 12:11
Context12:11 Say, ‘I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.’
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 16:28
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 22:7
Context22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt 3 within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow 4 within you.
Ezekiel 28:9
Context28:9 Will you still say, “I am a god,” before the one who kills you –
though you are a man and not a god –
when you are in the power of those who wound you?
Ezekiel 36:10
Context36:10 I will multiply your people 5 – the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.
1 sn Eight ounces (Heb “twenty shekels”). The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of grain about 230 grams here (8 ounces).
2 tn Heb “from time to time.”
3 tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”
4 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.
5 tn Heb “I will multiply on you human(s).”
