Discovery BoxEzekiel 4:10-11 
Context4:10 The food you eat will be eight ounces 1 a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed 2 times. 4:11 And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; 3 you must drink it at fixed times.
Ezekiel 6:8
Context6:8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. 4
Ezekiel 7:6
Context7:6 An end comes 5 – the end comes! 6 It has awakened against you 7 – the end is upon you! Look, it is coming! 8
Ezekiel 8:15
Context8:15 He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!”
Ezekiel 12:9
Context12:9 “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
Ezekiel 13:12
Context13:12 When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, “Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”
Ezekiel 16:29
Context16:29 Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, 9 but you were not satisfied there either.
Ezekiel 16:40
Context16:40 They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:54
Context16:54 so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them.
Ezekiel 16:62
Context16:62 I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 21:30
Context21:30 Return it to its sheath! 10
In the place where you were created, 11
in your native land, I will judge you.
Ezekiel 22:10
Context22:10 They have sex with their father’s wife within you; 12 they violate women during their menstrual period within you. 13
Ezekiel 23:30
Context23:30 I will do these things to you 14 because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.
Ezekiel 24:19
Context24:19 Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”
Ezekiel 24:22
Context24:22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others. 15
Ezekiel 27:26
Context27:26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters.
The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 27:36
Context27:36 The traders among the peoples hiss at you;
you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”
Ezekiel 28:4
Context28:4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself;
you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
Ezekiel 28:8
Context28:8 They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently 16 in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 35:4
Context35:4 I will lay waste your cities;
and you will become desolate.
Then you will know that I am the Lord!
Ezekiel 36:9
Context36:9 For indeed, I am on your side; 17 I will turn to you, and you will be plowed and planted.
Ezekiel 38:7
Context38:7 “‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them. 18
Ezekiel 43:23
Context43:23 When you have finished purifying it, you will offer an unblemished young bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.
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 sn A pint and a half [Heb “one-sixth of a hin”]. One-sixth of a hin was a quantity of liquid equal to about 1.3 pints or 0.6 liters.
4 tn Heb “when you have fugitives from the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the lands.”
5 tn Or “has come.”
6 tn Or “has come.”
7 tc With different vowels the verb rendered “it has awakened” would be the noun “the end,” as in “the end is upon you.” The verb would represent a phonetic wordplay. The noun by virtue of repetition would continue to reinforce the idea of the end. Whether verb or noun, this is the only instance to occur with this preposition.
8 tc For this entire verse, the LXX has only “the end is come.”
tn In each of the three cases of the verb translated with forms of “to come,” the form may either be a participle (“comes/is coming”) or a perfect (“has come”). Either form would indicate that the end is soon to arrive. This last form appears also to be feminine, although “end” is masculine. This shift may be looking ahead to the next verse, whose first noun (“Doom”) is feminine.
9 tn Heb “Chaldea.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon (“Chaldeans”) and the territory from which they originated (“Chaldea”) is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon.
10 sn Once the Babylonian king’s sword (vv. 19-20) has carried out its assigned task, the Lord commands it to halt and announces that Babylon itself will also experience his judgment. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:28.
11 tn In the Hebrew text of vv. 30-32 the second person verbal and pronominal forms are feminine singular. This may indicate that the personified Babylonian sword is being addressed. The Hebrew word for “sword” (see v. 28) is feminine. However, it may refer to the Ammonites.
12 tn Heb “the nakedness of a father one uncovers within you.” The ancient versions read the verb as plural (“they uncover”). If the singular is retained, it must be taken as indefinite and representative of the entire group. The idiomatic expression “uncover the nakedness” refers here to sexual intercourse (cf. Lev 18:6). To uncover a father’s nakedness could include sexual relations with one’s own mother (Lev 18:7), but more likely it refers to having intercourse with another wife of one’s father, such as a stepmother (Lev 18:8; cf. Gen 35:22; 49:4).
13 tn Heb “(one who is) unclean due to the impurity they humble within you.” The use of the verb “to humble” suggests that these men forced themselves upon women during menstruation. Having sexual relations with a woman during her period was forbidden by the Law (Lev 18:19; 20:18).
14 tn The infinitive absolute continues the sequence begun in v. 28: “Look here, I am about to deliver you.” See Joüon 2:430 §123.w.
16 tn Heb “you will die the death of the slain.”
17 tn Heb “I (am) toward you.”
18 tn The second person singular verbal and pronominal forms in the Hebrew text indicate that Gog is addressed here.
