Discovery BoxEzekiel 8:3 
Context8:3 He stretched out the form 1 of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind 2 lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem 3 by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue 4 which provokes to jealousy was located.
Ezekiel 8:11
Context8:11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel 5 (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant 6 vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.
Ezekiel 9:2
Context9:2 Next, I noticed 7 six men 8 coming from the direction of the upper gate 9 which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit 10 at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.
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 11 of my people, nor be written in the registry 12 of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 14:9
Context14:9 “‘As for the prophet, if he is made a fool by being deceived into speaking a prophetic word – I, the Lord, have made a fool of 13 that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.
Ezekiel 21:7
Context21:7 When they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you will reply, ‘Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone 14 will faint and every knee will be wet with urine.’ 15 Pay attention – it is coming and it will happen, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 21:22
Context21:22 Into his right hand 16 comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal 17 for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, 18 to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.
Ezekiel 25:13
Context25:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, 19 and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die 20 by the sword.
Ezekiel 30:25
Context30:25 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the Lord when I place my sword in the hand of the king of Babylon and he extends it against the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 33:22
Context33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me 21 the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord 22 opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived 23 in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. 24
Ezekiel 34:10
Context34:10 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; 25 the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.
Ezekiel 34:27
Context34:27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
Ezekiel 40:1
Context40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city 26 was struck down, on this very day, 27 the hand 28 of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. 29
1 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).
2 tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.
3 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.
4 tn Or “image.”
5 sn Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).
6 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
7 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
8 sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.
9 sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).
10 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.
11 tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the
12 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).
13 tn The translation is uncertain due to difficulty both in determining the meaning of the verb’s stem and its conjugation in this context. In the Qal stem the basic meaning of the verbal root פָּתַה (patah) is “to be gullible, foolish.” The doubling stems (the Pual and Piel used in this verse) typically give such stative verbs a factitive sense, hence either “make gullible” (i.e., “entice”) or “make into a fool” (i.e., “to show to be a fool”). The latter represents the probable meaning of the term in Jer 20:7, 10 and is followed here (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:193; R. Mosis “Ez 14, 1-11 - ein Ruf zur Umkehr,” BZ 19 [1975]: 166-69 and ThWAT 4:829-31). In this view, if a prophet speaks when not prompted by God, he will be shown to be a fool, but this does not reflect negatively on the Lord because it is God who shows him to be a fool. Secondly, the verb is in the perfect conjugation and may be translated “I have made a fool of him” or “I have enticed him,” or to show determination (see IBHS 439-41 §27.2f and g), or in certain syntactical constructions as future. Any of these may be plausible if the doubling stems used are understood in the sense of “making a fool of.” But if understood as “to make gullible,” more factors come into play. As the Hebrew verbal form is a perfect, it is often translated as present perfect: “I have enticed.” In this case the Lord states that he himself enticed the prophet to cooperate with the idolaters. Such enticement to sin would seem to be a violation of God’s moral character, but sometimes he does use such deception and enticement to sin as a form of punishment against those who have blatantly violated his moral will (see, e.g., 2 Sam 24). If one follows this line of interpretation in Ezek 14:9, one would have to assume that the prophet had already turned from God in his heart. However, the context gives no indication of this. Therefore, it is better to take the perfect as indicating certitude and to translate it with the future tense: “I will entice.” In this case the Lord announces that he will judge the prophet appropriately. If a prophet allows himself to be influenced by idolaters, then the Lord will use deception as a form of punishment against that deceived prophet. A comparison with the preceding oracles also favors this view. In 14:4 the perfect of certitude is used for emphasis (see “I will answer”), though in v. 7 a participle is employed. For a fuller discussion of this text, see R. B. Chisholm, Jr., “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 23-25.
14 tn Heb “every spirit will be dim.”
15 sn This expression depicts in a very vivid way how they will be overcome with fear. See the note on the same phrase in 7:17.
16 tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.
17 tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.
18 tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”
19 tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”
20 tn Heb “fall.”
21 tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.
24 sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).
25 tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”
26 sn That is, Jerusalem.
27 tn April 19, 573
28 tn Or “power.”
sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).
