Ezekiel 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 8:3
Context8:3 He stretched out the form 3 of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind 4 lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem 5 by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue 6 which provokes to jealousy was located.
Ezekiel 29:18
Context29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar 7 of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. 8 Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.
1 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
2 tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”
3 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).
4 tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.
5 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.
6 tn Or “image.”
7 tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).
8 sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571
map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.