Discovery Box| (0.30) | (Eze 22:12) | 1 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 22:9) | 2 tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 21:23) | 2 sn When the people of Judah realized the Babylonians’ intentions, they would object on grounds that they had made a treaty with the Babylonian king (see 17:13). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 21:7) | 2 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. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 21:1) | 1 sn Ezek 21:1 in the English Bible is 21:6 in the Hebrew text (BHS). See the note at 20:45. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 20:46) | 4 tn The Hebrew term can also mean “forest,” but a meaning of uncultivated wasteland fits the Negev region far better. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:418. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 16:8) | 2 tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 16:8) | 3 tn Heb “wing” or “skirt.” The gesture symbolized acquiring a woman in early Arabia (similarly, see Deut 22:30; Ruth 3:9). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 16:15) | 1 tn Heb “it” (so KJV, ASV); the referent (the beauty in which the prostitute trusted; see the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 14:11) | 1 sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 10:9) | 2 tn The MT repeats this phrase either due to dittography or a distributive meaning of the repeated phrase (see GKC, 134q). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 9:4) | 2 sn For a similar concept in the Bible, see Rev 7:2-4; 13:16; 14:9, 11; 20:4; 22:4. |
| (0.30) | (Eze 7:19) | 3 tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 5:16) | 1 tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious” but has the nuance “deadly” when used of weapons (see Ps 144:10). |
| (0.30) | (Eze 5:6) | 1 sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3 and Jonah 1:2. |
| (0.30) | (Lam 3:58) | 1 tc The MT reads אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay, “the Lord”) here rather than יהוה (YHWH, “the Lord”) as in the following verse. See the note at 1:14. |
| (0.30) | (Lam 3:51) | 1 tn Heb “my eye causes grief to my soul.” The term “eye” is a metonymy of association, standing for that which one sees with the eyes. |
| (0.30) | (Lam 3:31) | 1 tc The MT reads אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay, “the Lord”) here rather than יהוה (YHWH, “the Lord”). See the note at 1:14. |
| (0.30) | (Lam 3:35) | 2 tn Heb “to turn away a man’s justice,” that is, the justice or equitable judgment he would receive. See the previous note regarding the “man.” |
| (0.30) | (Lam 3:36) | 1 tc The MT reads אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay, “the Lord”) here rather than יהוה (YHWH, “the Lord”). See the note at 1:14. |
