Discovery BoxEzekiel 8:12 
Context8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? 1 For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”
Ezekiel 8:16
Context8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there 2 at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, 3 were about twenty-five 4 men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, 5 facing east – they were worshiping the sun 6 toward the east!
Ezekiel 9:9
Context9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, 7 for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ 8
Ezekiel 13:19
Context13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people 9 who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!
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, 10 declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
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 11 my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. 12
Ezekiel 20:21
Context20:21 “‘But the children 13 rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys 14 them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out 15 my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:28
Context20:28 I brought them to the land which I swore 16 to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 20:38-40
Context20:38 I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt 17 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.
20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, 18 if you will not listen to me. 19 But my holy name will not be profaned 20 again by your sacrifices 21 and your idols. 20:40 For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them 22 in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.
Ezekiel 37:9
Context37:9 He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, 23 – prophesy, son of man – and say to the breath: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.’”
Ezekiel 38:16
Context38:16 You will advance 24 against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself 25 through you, O Gog.
Ezekiel 39:23
Context39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, 26 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 40:4
Context40:4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention 27 to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. 28 Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”
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 29 on either side, and the width of the gate was 24½ feet 30 and the sides 31 were 5¼ feet 32 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 33 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, 34
Ezekiel 44:5
Context44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, 35 watch closely and listen carefully to 36 everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances 37 to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 46:20
Context46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”
Ezekiel 47:1
Context47:1 Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed 38 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 Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
sn This type of image is explicitly prohibited in the Mosaic law (Lev 26:1).
2 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.
3 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).
4 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.”
5 sn The temple faced east.
6 tn Or “the sun god.”
sn The worship of astral entities may have begun during the reign of Manasseh (2 Kgs 21:5).
7 tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”
8 sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.
9 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”
10 tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”
11 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”
12 tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”
13 tn Heb “sons.”
14 tn Or “carries them out.”
15 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”
16 tn Heb “which I lifted up my hand.”
18 sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.
19 tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.
20 sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.
21 tn Or “gifts.”
22 tn Heb “all of it.”
23 tn Or “spirit,” and several times in this verse.
24 tn Heb “come up.”
25 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”
26 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.
27 tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”
28 tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”
29 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
30 tn The LXX reads “fourteen cubits” (i.e., 7.35 meters). See following note.
31 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.”
32 tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).
33 sn The priests are from the Zadokite family (Ezek 40:6; 44:15).
34 sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.
35 tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).
36 tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”
37 tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.
38 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
