Discovery BoxEzekiel 5:1 
Context5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. 1 Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. 2 Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.
Ezekiel 16:4
Context16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; 3 you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 4
Ezekiel 26:10
Context26:10 He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. 5 Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city’s broken walls. 6
1 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
2 tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”
3 tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).
4 sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.
5 tn Heb “From the abundance of his horses he will cover you (with) their dust.”
6 tn Heb “like those who enter a breached city.”
