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 5:1
Context5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. 3 Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. 4 Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.
Ezekiel 6:9
Context6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize 5 how I was crushed by their unfaithful 6 heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves 7 because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.
Ezekiel 6:13
Context6:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, 8 the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
Ezekiel 7:9
Context7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 9 you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, 10 and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you. 11
Ezekiel 7:27
Context7:27 The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice 12 I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”
Ezekiel 8:3
Context8:3 He stretched out the form 13 of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind 14 lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem 15 by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue 16 which provokes to jealousy was located.
Ezekiel 8:16
Context8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there 17 at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, 18 were about twenty-five 19 men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, 20 facing east – they were worshiping the sun 21 toward the east!
Ezekiel 12:19
Context12:19 Then say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.
Ezekiel 13:9
Context13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council 22 of my people, nor be written in the registry 23 of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 14:4
Context14:4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry. 24
Ezekiel 14:7
Context14:7 For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.
Ezekiel 16:8
Context16:8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing 25 that you had reached the age for love. 26 I spread my cloak 27 over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 20:8
Context20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, 28 nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out 29 my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:38
Context20:38 I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt 30 against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 25:7
Context25:7 take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder 31 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 26:20
Context26:20 then I will bring you down to bygone people, 32 to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among 33 the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand 34 in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 28:22
Context28:22 Say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against you, 35 Sidon,
and I will magnify myself in your midst.
Then they will know that I am the Lord
when I execute judgments on her
and reveal my sovereign power 36 in her.
Ezekiel 28:26
Context28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely 37 when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”
Ezekiel 30:25
Context30:25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the Lord when I place my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon and he extends it against the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 31:16
Context31:16 I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. 38 Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.
Ezekiel 33:6
Context33:6 But suppose the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people. Then the sword comes and takes one of their lives. He is swept away for his iniquity, 39 but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person’s death.’ 40
Ezekiel 33:10
Context33:10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what you have said: “Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, 41 and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”’
Ezekiel 35:15
Context35:15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you – you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom – all of it! Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 36:11
Context36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. 42 I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. 43 Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 37:16
Context37:16 “As for you, son of man, take one branch, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another branch and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the branch of Ephraim and all the house of Israel associated with him.’
Ezekiel 40:48
Context40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured the jambs of the porch as 8¾ feet 44 on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet 45 and the sides 46 were 5¼ feet 47 on each side.
Ezekiel 42:13
Context42:13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests 48 who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings – the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.
Ezekiel 43:18
Context43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, 49
Ezekiel 46:2
Context46:2 The prince will enter by way of the porch of the gate from the outside, and will stand by the doorpost of the gate. The priests will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out. But the gate will not be closed until evening.
Ezekiel 46:12
Context46:12 When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a voluntary offering to the Lord, the gate facing east will be opened for him, and he will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he did on the Sabbath. Then he will go out, and the gate will be closed after he goes out. 50
Ezekiel 47:1
Context47:1 Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed 51 that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar.
1 tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.
2 tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.
3 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
4 tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”
5 tn The words “they will realize” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added here for stylistic reasons since this clause assumes the previous verb “to remember” or “to take into account.”
6 tn Heb “how I was broken by their adulterous heart.” The image of God being “broken” is startling, but perfectly natural within the metaphorical framework of God as offended husband. The idiom must refer to the intense grief that Israel’s unfaithfulness caused God. For a discussion of the syntax and semantics of the Hebrew text, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:134.
7 tn Heb adds “in their faces.”
8 sn By referring to every high hill…all the mountaintops…under every green tree and every leafy oak Ezekiel may be expanding on the phraseology of Deut 12:2 (see 1 Kgs 14:23; 2 Kgs 16:4; 17:10; Jer 2:20; 3:6, 13; 2 Chr 28:4).
9 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
10 tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”
11 tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.
12 tn Heb “and by their judgments.”
13 tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).
14 tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.
15 map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
16 tn Or “image.”
17 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.
18 sn The priests prayed to God between the porch and the altar on fast days (Joel 2:17). This is the location where Zechariah was murdered (Matt 23:35).
19 tc The LXX reads “twenty” instead of twenty-five, perhaps because of the association of the number twenty with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash.
tn Or “exactly twenty-five.”
20 sn The temple faced east.
21 tn Or “the sun god.”
sn The worship of astral entities may have begun during the reign of Manasseh (2 Kgs 21:5).
22 tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the
23 tn The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).
24 tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.”
25 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a participle.
26 tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13.
27 tn Heb “wing” or “skirt.” The gesture symbolized acquiring a woman in early Arabia (similarly, see Deut 22:30; Ruth 3:9).
28 tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”
29 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”
31 tc The translation here follows the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text. The consonantal text (Kethib) is meaningless.
32 tn Heb “to the people of antiquity.”
33 tn Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כְּ (kÿ, “like”), to בְּ (bÿ, “in, among”).
34 tn Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read “nor will you stand” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”
35 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
36 tn Or “reveal my holiness.” God’s “holiness” is fundamentally his transcendence as sovereign ruler of the world. The revelation of his authority and power through judgment is in view in this context.
37 sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.
38 sn For the expression “going down to the pit,” see Ezek 26:20; 32:18, 24, 29.
39 tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 8 and 9; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
40 tn Heb “his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.”
41 tn Heb “(are) upon us.”
42 sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.
43 tn Heb “your beginning.”
44 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
45 tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.
46 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.
tn Or “sidewalls.”
47 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).
48 sn The priests are from the Zadokite family (Ezek 40:6; 44:15).
49 sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.
50 tn Heb “he shall shut the gate after he goes out.”
51 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
