Yehezkiel 1:11

1:11 Their wings were spread out above them; each had two wings touching the wings of one of the other beings on either side and two wings covering their bodies.

Yehezkiel 9:7

9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

Yehezkiel 10:3

10:3 (The cherubim were standing on the south side ¹  of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

Yehezkiel 13:5

13:5 You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

Yehezkiel 14:14

14:14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, ²  and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 14:18

14:18 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters – they would save only their own lives.

Yehezkiel 16:5

16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; ³  you were thrown out into the open field ⁴  because you were detested on the day you were born.

Yehezkiel 16:16

16:16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 16:31

16:31 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 16:41

16:41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients. ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 17:8

17:8 In a good field, by abundant waters, it was planted

to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a beautiful vine.

Yehezkiel 17:10

17:10 Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper?

Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it?

Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

Yehezkiel 18:6

18:6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains ⁸  or pray to the idols ⁹  of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not have sexual relations with a ¹⁰  woman during her period,

Yehezkiel 20:18

20:18 “‘But I said to their children ¹¹  in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, ¹²  nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Yehezkiel 20:43

20:43 And there you will remember your conduct ¹³  and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves ¹⁴  because of all the evil deeds you have done.

Yehezkiel 24:3

24:3 Recite a proverb to this rebellious house ¹⁵  and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Set on the pot, ¹⁶  set it on,

pour water in it too;

Yehezkiel 27:9

27:9 The elders of Gebal ¹⁷  and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks; ¹⁸ 

all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise. ¹⁹ 

Yehezkiel 30:11

30:11 He and his people with him,

the most terrifying of the nations, ²⁰ 

will be brought there to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with corpses.

Yehezkiel 31:5

31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,

because of the plentiful water in its shoots. ²¹ 

Yehezkiel 32:18

32:18 “Son of man, wail ²²  over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down; ²³  bring ²⁴  her ²⁵  and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 38:23

38:23 I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Yehezkiel 40:22

40:22 Its windows, its porches, and its decorative palm trees had the same measurement as the gate which faced east. Seven steps led up to it, and its porch was in front of them.

Yehezkiel 41:12

41:12 The building that was facing the temple courtyard at the west side was 122½ feet ²⁶  wide; the wall of the building was 8¾ feet ²⁷  all around, and its length 157½ feet. ²⁸ 

Yehezkiel 43:3

43:3 It was like the vision I saw when he ²⁹  came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.

Yehezkiel 44:27

44:27 On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 45:5

45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles ³⁰  in length and three and one-third miles ³¹  in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities ³²  in which they will live.

Yehezkiel 47:2

47:2 He led me out by way of the north gate and brought me around the outside of the outer gate that faces toward the east; I noticed ³³  that the water was trickling out from the south side.

Yehezkiel 47:17

47:17 The border will run from the sea to Hazar-enan, at the border of Damascus, and on the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

Yehezkiel 48:16

48:16 these will be its measurements: The north side will be one and one-half miles, ³⁴  the south side one and one-half miles, the east side one and one-half miles, and the west side one and one-half miles.

[10:3]  ¹ tn Heb “right side.”

[14:14]  ² sn Traditionally this has been understood as a reference to the biblical Daniel, though he was still quite young when Ezekiel prophesied. One wonders if he had developed a reputation as an intercessor by this point. For this reason some prefer to see a reference to a ruler named Danel, known in Canaanite legend for his justice and wisdom. In this case all three of the individuals named would be non-Israelites, however the Ugaritic Danel is not known to have qualities of faith in the Lord that would place him in the company of the other men. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:447-50.

[16:5]  ³ sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10.

[16:5]  ⁴ sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10.

[16:16]  ⁵ tc The text as written in the MT is incomprehensible (“not coming [plural] and he will not”). Driver has suggested a copying error of similar-sounding words, specifically לֹא (lo’) for לוֹ (lo). The feminine participle בָאוֹת (va’ot) has also been read as the feminine perfect בָאת (va’t). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:228, n. 15.b, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:486, n. 137.

[16:31]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term, which also occurs in vv. 34 and 41 of this chapter, always refers to the payment of a prostitute (Deut 23:19; Isa 23:17; Hos 9:1; Mic 1:7).

[16:41]  ⁷ tn The words “to your clients” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.

[18:6]  ⁸ tn Heb, “on the mountains he does not eat.” The mountains are often mentioned as the place where idolatrous sacrifices were eaten (Ezek 20:28; 22:9; 34:6).

[18:6]  ⁹ tn Heb, “does not lift up his eyes.” This refers to looking to idols for help.

[18:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb, “does not draw near to.” “Draw near” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse (Lev 18:14; Deut 22:14; Isa 8:3).

[20:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

[20:18]  ¹² tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.

[20:43]  ¹³ tn Heb “ways.”

[20:43]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”

[24:3]  ¹⁵ sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).

[24:3]  ¹⁶ sn See Ezek 11:3-12.

[27:9]  ¹⁷ sn Another Phoenician coastal city located between Sidon and Arvad.

[27:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “strengthening damages.” Here “to strengthen” means to repair. The word for “damages” occurs several times in 1 Kgs 12 about some type of damage to the temple, which may have referred to or included cracks. Since the context describes Tyre in its glory, we do not expect this reference to damages to be of significant scale, even if there are repairmen. This may refer to using pitch to seal the seams of the ship, which had to be done periodically and could be considered routine maintenance rather than repair of damage.

[27:9]  ¹⁹ sn The reference to “all the ships of the sea…within you” suggests that the metaphor is changing; previously Tyre had been described as a magnificent ship, but now the description shifts back to an actual city. The “ships of the sea” were within Tyre’s harbor. Verse 11 refers to “walls” and “towers” of the city.

[30:11]  ²⁰ tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).

[31:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).

[32:18]  ²² tn The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death (Jer 9:17-19; Amos 5:16).

[32:18]  ²³ sn Through this prophetic lament given by God himself, the prophet activates the judgment described therein. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:217, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:136-37.

[32:18]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Bring him down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth below.” The verb “bring down” appears in the Hebrew text only once. Because the verb takes several objects here, the repetition of the verb in the translation improves the English style.

[32:18]  ²⁵ tn This apparently refers to personified Egypt.

[41:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb “seventy cubits” (36.75 meters).

[41:12]  ²⁷ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

[41:12]  ²⁸ tn Heb “ninety cubits” (i.e., 47.25 meters).

[43:3]  ²⁹ tc Heb “I.” The reading is due to the confusion of yod (י, indicating a first person pronoun) and vav (ו, indicating a third person pronoun). A few medieval Hebrew mss, Theodotion’s Greek version, and the Latin Vulgate support a third person pronoun here.

[45:5]  ³⁰ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[45:5]  ³¹ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:5]  ³² tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.

[47:2]  ³³ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[48:16]  ³⁴ tn Heb “four thousand five hundred cubits” (i.e., 2.36 kilometers); the phrase occurs three more times in this verse.