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 8:17
Context8:17 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! 2
Ezekiel 17:24
Context17:24 All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord.
I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree.
I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout.
I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”
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, 3 or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore 4 my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.
Ezekiel 32:27
Context32:27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, 5 who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, 6 when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 36:11
Context36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. 7 I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. 8 Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 43:11
Context43:11 When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its pattern, its exits and entrances, and its whole design – all its statutes, its entire design, and all its laws; write it all down in their sight, so that they may observe its entire design and all its statutes and do them.
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.”
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 It is not clear what the practice of “holding a branch to the nose” indicates. A possible parallel is the Syrian relief of a king holding a flower to his nose as he worships the stars (ANEP 281). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:145-46. The LXX glosses the expression as “Behold, they are like mockers.”
3 tn Or “between the consecrated and the common.”
4 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).
5 tc Heb “of the uncircumcised.” The LXX reads, probably correctly, “from of old” rather than “of the uncircumcised.” The phrases are very similar in spelling. The warriors of Meshech-Tubal are described as uncircumcised, so it would be odd for them to not be buried with the uncircumcised. Verse 28 specifically says that they would lie with the uncircumcised.
6 tn Heb “and their iniquities were over their bones.” The meaning of this statement is unclear; in light of the parallelism (see “swords”) it is preferable to emend “their iniquities” to “their swords.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:135.
7 sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.
8 tn Heb “your beginning.”
