Discovery BoxEzekiel 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 6:9
Context6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize 1 how I was crushed by their unfaithful 2 heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves 3 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, 4 the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
Ezekiel 9:2
Context9:2 Next, I noticed 5 six men 6 coming from the direction of the upper gate 7 which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit 8 at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.
Ezekiel 10:19
Context10:19 The cherubim spread 9 their wings, and they rose up from the earth 10 while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
Ezekiel 12:6
Context12:6 While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. 11 You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground 12 because I have made you an object lesson 13 to the house of Israel.”
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 14 of my people, nor be written in the registry 15 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. 16
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 16:43
Context16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, 17 declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
Ezekiel 20:8
Context20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, 18 nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out 19 my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:13
Context20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out 20 my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. 21
Ezekiel 20:21
Context20:21 “‘But the children 22 rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys 23 them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out 24 my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 22:4
Context22:4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; 25 the end of your years has come. 26 Therefore I will make 27 you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.
Ezekiel 22:26
Context22:26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, 28 or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore 29 my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.
Ezekiel 23:24-25
Context23:24 They will attack 30 you with weapons, 31 chariots, wagons, and with a huge army; 32 they will array themselves against you on every side with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I will assign them the task of judgment; 33 they will punish you according to their laws. 23:25 I will direct 34 my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, 35 and your survivors will die 36 by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.
Ezekiel 24:21
Context24:21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary – the source of your confident pride, 37 the object in which your eyes delight, 38 and your life’s passion. 39 Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die 40 by the sword.
Ezekiel 24:25
Context24:25 “And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take 41 from them their stronghold – their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives, 42 as well as their sons and daughters: 43
Ezekiel 29:19
Context29:19 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth, capture her loot, and seize her plunder; it will be his army’s wages.
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, 44 but I will hold the watchman accountable for that person’s death.’ 45
Ezekiel 33:22
Context33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me 46 the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord 47 opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived 48 in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. 49
Ezekiel 34:8
Context34:8 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,
Ezekiel 36:5-6
Context36:5 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’
36:6 “Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I have spoken in my zeal and in my anger, because you have endured the insults of the nations.
Ezekiel 36:22
Context36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation 50 which you profaned among the nations where you went.
Ezekiel 39:11
Context39:11 “‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog. 51
Ezekiel 39:17
Context39:17 “As for you, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter 52 which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.
Ezekiel 39:23
Context39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, 53 for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.
Ezekiel 44:5
Context44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, 54 watch closely and listen carefully to 55 everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances 56 to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 47:1
Context47:1 Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed 57 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 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.”
2 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.
3 tn Heb adds “in their faces.”
4 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).
5 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
6 sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.
7 sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).
8 tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.
9 tn Heb “lifted.”
10 tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).
11 tn Apart from this context the Hebrew term occurs only in Gen 15:17 in reference to the darkness after sunset. It may mean twilight.
12 tn Or “land” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
13 sn See also Ezek 12:11, 24:24, 27.
14 tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the
15 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).
16 tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.”
17 tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”
18 tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”
19 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”
20 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”
21 tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”
22 tn Heb “sons.”
23 tn Or “carries them out.”
24 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”
25 tn Heb “you have brought near your days.” The expression “bring near your days” appears to be an adaptation of the idiom “days draw near,” which is used to indicate that an event, such as death, is imminent (see Gen 27:41; 47:29; Deut 31:14; 1 Kgs 2:1; Ezek 12:23). Here “your days” probably refers to the days of the personified city’s life, which was about to come to an end through God’s judgment.
26 tn Heb “and you have come to your years.” This appears to mean that she has arrived at the time when her years (i.e., life) would end, though it may mean that her years of punishment will begin. Because “day” and “time” are so closely associated in the immediate context (see 21:25, 29) some prefer to emend the text and read “you have brought near your time.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:31, as well as the translator’s note on verse 3.
27 tn The Hebrew verb is a prophetic perfect, emphasizing that the action is as good as done from the speaker’s perspective.
28 tn Or “between the consecrated and the common.”
29 tn Heb “hide their eyes from.” The idiom means to disregard or ignore something or someone (see Lev 20:4; 1 Sam 12:3; Prov 28:27; Isa 1:15).
30 tn Heb “come against.”
31 tn This is the only occurrence of this term in the OT. The precise meaning is uncertain.
32 tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”
33 tn Heb “I will place before them judgment.”
34 tn Heb “give.”
35 tn Heb “they will remove.”
sn This method of punishment is attested among ancient Egyptian and Hittite civilizations. See W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:489.
36 tn Heb “fall.”
37 tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”
38 sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”) so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.
39 tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”
40 tn Heb “fall.”
41 tn Heb “(Will) it not (be) in the day I take?”
42 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.
43 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.
44 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.
45 tn Heb “his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.”
46 tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the
47 tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
48 tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.
49 sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).
50 sn In Ezek 20:22 God refrained from punishment for the sake of his holy name. Here God’s reputation is the basis for Israel’s restoration.
51 tn The name means “horde of Gog.”
52 tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).
53 tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
54 tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).
55 tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”
56 tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.
57 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
