Discovery BoxEzekiel 4:3 
Context4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan 1 and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign 2 for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:9
Context4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 3 put them in a single container, and make food 4 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 5 – you will eat it.
Ezekiel 5:2
Context5:2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.
Ezekiel 13:20
Context13:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note 6 that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives 7 like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.
Ezekiel 16:37
Context16:37 therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness. 8
Ezekiel 17:22
Context17:22 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘I will take a sprig 9 from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it. 10
I will pluck from the top one of its tender twigs;
I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Ezekiel 21:19
Context21:19 “You, son of man, mark out two routes for the king of Babylon’s sword to take; both of them will originate in a single land. Make a signpost and put it at the beginning of the road leading to the city.
Ezekiel 24:25
Context24:25 “And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take 11 from them their stronghold – their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives, 12 as well as their sons and daughters: 13
Ezekiel 25:7
Context25:7 take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder 14 to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 33:11
Context33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior 15 and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! 16 Why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Ezekiel 37:19
Context37:19 tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah, 17 and make them into one stick – they will be one in my hand.’ 18
Ezekiel 38:13
Context38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors 19 will say to you, “Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?”’
Ezekiel 45:19
Context45:19 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.
Ezekiel 46:18
Context46:18 The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”
1 tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.
2 tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.
3 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.
4 tn Heb “bread.”
5 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
6 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
7 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”
8 sn Harlots suffered degradation when their nakedness was exposed (Jer 13:22, 26; Hos 2:12; Nah 3:5).
9 sn The language is analogous to messianic imagery in Isa 11:1; Zech 3:8; 6:4 although the technical terminology is not the same.
10 tc The LXX lacks “and plant it.”
11 tn Heb “(Will) it not (be) in the day I take?”
12 tn Heb “the uplifting of their soul.” According to BDB 672 s.v. מַשָּׂא 2, the term “uplifting” refers to “that to which they lift up their soul, their heart’s desire.” However, this text is the only one listed for this use. It seems more likely that the term has its well-attested nuance of “burden, load,” here and refers to that which weighs them down emotionally and is a constant source of concern or worry.
13 tn In the Hebrew text there is no conjunction before “their sons and daughters.” For this reason one might assume that the preceding descriptive phrases refer to the sons and daughters, but verse 21 suggests otherwise. The descriptive phrases appear to refer to the “stronghold,” which parallels “my sanctuary” in verse 21. The children constitute a separate category.
14 tc The translation here follows the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text. The consonantal text (Kethib) is meaningless.
15 tn Heb “turn from his way.”
16 tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.
17 tn Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”
18 sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.
19 tn Heb “young lions.”
