Discovery BoxEzekiel 9:4 
Context9:4 The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem 1 and put a mark 2 on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”
Ezekiel 11:5
Context11:5 Then the Spirit of the Lord came 3 upon me and said to me, “Say: This is what the Lord says: ‘This is what you are thinking, 4 O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds. 5
Ezekiel 14:17
Context14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.
Ezekiel 20:26
Context20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices 6 – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire 7 – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ 8
Ezekiel 21:24
Context21:24 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have brought up 9 your own guilt by uncovering your transgressions and revealing your sins through all your actions, for this reason you will be taken by force. 10
Ezekiel 23:37
Context23:37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, 11 they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. 12
Ezekiel 33:28
Context33:28 I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.
Ezekiel 39:14
Context39:14 They will designate men to scout continually 13 through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, 14 in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months.
Ezekiel 45:20
Context45:20 This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance; so you will make atonement for the temple.
Ezekiel 46:19
Context46:19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which faced north. There I saw 15 a place at the extreme western end.
Ezekiel 47:3
Context47:3 When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, 16 and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.
1 tn Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.”
map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
2 tn The word translated “mark” is in Hebrew the letter ת (tav). Outside this context the only other occurrence of the word is in Job 31:35. In ancient Hebrew script this letter was written like the letter X.
sn For a similar concept in the Bible, see Rev 7:2-4; 13:16; 14:9, 11; 20:4; 22:4.
3 tn Heb “fell.”
4 tn The Hebrew verb commonly means “to say,” but may also mean “to think” (see also v. 3).
5 tn Heb “I know the steps of your spirits.”
6 tn Or “gifts.”
7 sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).
8 sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.
9 tn Heb “caused to be remembered.”
10 tn Heb “Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt when your transgressions are uncovered so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds – because you are remembered, by the hand you will be seized.”
11 sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.
12 tn Heb “they have passed to them for food.” The verb is commonly taken to refer to passing children through fire, especially as an offering to the pagan god Molech. See Jer 32:35.
13 tn Heb “men of perpetuity.”
14 tn Heb “and bury the travelers and those who remain on the surface of the ground.” The reference to “travelers” seems odd and is omitted in the LXX. It is probably an accidental duplication (see v. 11).
15 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
16 tn Heb “one thousand cubits” (i.e., 525 meters); this phrase occurs three times in the next two verses.
