Discovery BoxEzekiel 5:6 
Context5:6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations 1 and the countries around her. 2 Indeed, they 3 have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.
Ezekiel 5:15
Context5:15 You will be 4 an object of scorn and taunting, 5 a prime example of destruction 6 among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. 7 I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 7:13
Context7:13 The customer will no longer pay the seller 8 while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd 9 will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, 10 will fail to preserve his life.
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; 11 you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 12
Ezekiel 17:23
Context17:23 I will plant it on a high mountain of Israel,
and it will raise branches and produce fruit and become a beautiful cedar.
Every bird will live under it;
Every winged creature will live in the shade of its branches.
Ezekiel 37:11
Context37:11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
Ezekiel 37:21
Context37:21 Then tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.
Ezekiel 43:13
Context43:13 “And these are the measurements of the altar: 13 Its base 14 is 1¾ feet 15 high, 16 and 1¾ feet 17 wide, and its border nine inches 18 on its edge. This is to be the height 19 of the altar.
Ezekiel 47:10
Context47:10 Fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to En-eglaim they will spread nets. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Great Sea. 20
1 sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3; Jonah 1:2.
2 tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”
3 sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.
4 tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew
5 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).
6 tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).
7 tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.
8 tc The translation follows the LXX for the first line of the verse, although the LXX has lost the second line due to homoioteleuton (similar endings of the clauses). The MT reads “The seller will not return to the sale.” This Hebrew reading has been construed as a reference to land redemption, the temporary sale of the use of property, with property rights returned to the seller in the year of Jubilee. But the context has no other indicator that land redemption is in view. If correct, the LXX evidence suggests that one of the cases of “the customer” has been replaced by “the seller” in the MT, perhaps due to hoimoioarcton (similar beginnings of the words).
9 tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.
10 tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in v. 16; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”
11 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).
12 sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.
13 tn Heb “the measurements of the altar by cubits, the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes. On the altar see Ezek 40:47.
14 tn The Hebrew term normally means “bosom.” Here it refers to a hollow in the ground.
15 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).
16 tn The word “high” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).
18 tn Heb “one span.” A span was three handbreadths, or about nine inches (i.e., 22.5 cm).
19 tc Heb “bulge, protuberance, mound.” The translation follows the LXX.
20 sn The Great Sea refers to the Mediterranean Sea (also in vv. 15, 19, 20).
