Yehezkiel 2:3

2:3 He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the house ¹  of Israel, to rebellious nations ²  who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted ³  against me to this very day.

Yehezkiel 4:16

4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply ⁴  in Jerusalem. ⁵  They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

Yehezkiel 8:6

8:6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people ⁶  of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!”

Yehezkiel 11:15

11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, ⁷  your relatives, ⁸  and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem ⁹  have said, ‘They have gone ¹⁰  far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

Yehezkiel 20:3

20:3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, ¹¹  declares the sovereign Lord.’

Yehezkiel 22:18

22:18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; ¹²  they are the worthless slag of silver.

Yehezkiel 28:2

28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince ¹³  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Your heart is proud ¹⁴  and you said, “I am a god; ¹⁵ 

I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –

yet you are a man and not a god,

though you think you are godlike. ¹⁶ 

Yehezkiel 29:3

29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Look, I am against ¹⁷  you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,

the great monster ¹⁸  lying in the midst of its waterways,

who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” ¹⁹ 

Yehezkiel 29:18

29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar ²⁰  of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. ²¹  Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.

Yehezkiel 32:2

32:2 “Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

“‘You were like a lion ²²  among the nations,

but you are a monster in the seas;

you thrash about in your streams,

stir up the water with your feet,

and muddy your ²³  streams.

Yehezkiel 33:24

33:24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’ ²⁴ 

Yehezkiel 40:4

40:4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention ²⁵  to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. ²⁶  Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

Yehezkiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ²⁷  watch closely and listen carefully to ²⁸  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ²⁹  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

[2:3]  ¹ tc The Hebrew reads “sons of,” while the LXX reads “house,” implying the more common phrase in Ezekiel. Either could be abbreviated with the first letter ב (bet). In preparation for the characterization “house of rebellion,” in vv. 5, 6, and 8, “house” is preferred (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:10 and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel [Hermeneia], 2:564-65).

[2:3]  ² tc Heb “to the rebellious nations.” The phrase “to the rebellious nations” is omitted in the LXX. Elsewhere in Ezekiel the singular word “nation” is used for Israel (36:13-15; 37:22). Here “nations” may have the meaning of “tribes” or refer to the two nations of Israel and Judah.

[2:3]  ³ tc This word is omitted from the LXX.

[2:3]  tn The Hebrew term used here is the strongest word available for expressing a covenant violation. The word is used in the diplomatic arena to express a treaty violation (2 Kgs 1:1; 3:5, 7).

[4:16]  ⁴ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.

[4:16]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “house.”

[11:15]  ⁷ tc The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.

[11:15]  ⁸ tc The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ (gÿ’ullatekha, “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ (galutekha) or having read the א (aleph) as an internal mater lectionis for holem.

[11:15]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[11:15]  ¹⁰ tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).

[20:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

[22:18]  ¹² tn For similar imagery, see Isa 1:21-26; Jer 6:27-30.

[28:2]  ¹³ tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).

[28:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “lifted up.”

[28:2]  sn See Prov 16:5.

[28:2]  ¹⁵ tn Or “I am divine.”

[28:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”

[29:3]  ¹⁷ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

[29:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew mss read correctly “the serpent.” The Hebrew term appears to refer to a serpent in Exod 7:9-10, 12; Deut 32:33; and Ps 91:13. It also refers to large creatures that inhabit the sea (Gen 1:21; Ps 148:7). In several passages it is associated with the sea or with the multiheaded sea monster Leviathan (Job 7:12; Ps 74:13; Isa 27:1; 51:9). Because of the Egyptian setting of this prophecy and the reference to the creature’s scales (v. 4), many understand a crocodile to be the referent here (e.g., NCV “a great crocodile”; TEV “you monster crocodile”; CEV “a giant crocodile”).

[29:3]  ¹⁹ sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.

[29:18]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).

[29:18]  ²¹ sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c.

[29:18]  map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[32:2]  ²² tn The lion was a figure of royalty (Ezek 19:1-9).

[32:2]  ²³ tc The Hebrew reads “their streams”; the LXX reads “your streams.”

[33:24]  ²⁴ sn Outside of its seven occurrences in Ezekiel the term translated “possession” appears only in Exod 6:8 and Deut 33:4.

[40:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”

[40:4]  ²⁶ tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”

[44:5]  ²⁷ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

[44:5]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

[44:5]  ²⁹ tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.