Yehezkiel 5:13

5:13 Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. ¹  Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy ²  when I have fully vented my rage against them.

Yehezkiel 5:15

5:15 You will be ³  an object of scorn and taunting, ⁴  a prime example of destruction ⁵  among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. ⁶  I, the Lord, have spoken!

Yehezkiel 5:17

5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. ⁷  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, ⁸  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Yehezkiel 6:14

6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them ⁹  and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, ¹⁰  in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Yehezkiel 9:3

9:3 Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple. ¹¹  He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

Yehezkiel 10:19

10:19 The cherubim spread ¹²  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ¹³  while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Yehezkiel 12:16

12:16 But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Yehezkiel 20:38

20:38 I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt ¹⁴  against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 24:27

24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; ¹⁵  you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Yehezkiel 25:7

25:7 take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder ¹⁶  to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 30:25

30:25 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.

Yehezkiel 34:27

34:27 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.

Yehezkiel 35:15

35:15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you – you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom – all of it! Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 36:11

36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. ¹⁷  I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. ¹⁸  Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 36:20

36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’

Yehezkiel 39:7

39:7 “‘I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁹ 

Yehezkiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 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 ²⁰  was struck down, on this very day, ²¹  the hand ²²  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ²³ 

Yehezkiel 41:8

41:8 I saw that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full measuring stick ²⁴  of 10½ feet ²⁵  high.

Yehezkiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ²⁶  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ²⁷  and the width three and one-third miles. ²⁸  This entire area will be holy. ²⁹ 

Yehezkiel 45:4

45:4 It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ³⁰ 

Yehezkiel 45:23

45:23 And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

[5:13]  ¹ tn Or “calm myself.”

[5:13]  ² tn The Hebrew noun translated “jealousy” is used in the human realm to describe suspicion of adultery (Num 5:14ff.; Prov 6:34). Since Israel’s relationship with God was often compared to a marriage this term is appropriate here. The term occurs elsewhere in Ezekiel in 8:3, 5; 16:38, 42; 23:25.

[5:15]  ³ tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew mss read “it will be,” but if the final he (ה) is read as a mater lectionis, as it can be with the second masculine singular perfect, then they are in agreement. In either case the subject refers to Jerusalem.

[5:15]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).

[5:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).

[5:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.

[5:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “will bereave you.”

[5:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

[6:14]  ⁹ sn I will stretch out my hand against them is a common expression in the book of Ezekiel (14:9, 13; 16:27; 25:7; 35:3).

[6:14]  ¹⁰ tc The Vulgate reads the name as “Riblah,” a city north of Damascus. The MT reads Diblah, a city otherwise unknown. The letters resh (ר) and dalet (ד) may have been confused in the Hebrew text. The town of Riblah was in the land of Hamath (2 Kgs 23:33) which represented the northern border of Israel (Ezek 47:14).

[9:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “house.”

[10:19]  ¹² tn Heb “lifted.”

[10:19]  ¹³ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

[20:38]  ¹⁴ tn See the note at 2:3.

[24:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your mouth will open.”

[25:7]  ¹⁶ tc The translation here follows the marginal reading (Qere) of the Hebrew text. The consonantal text (Kethib) is meaningless.

[36:11]  ¹⁷ sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.

[36:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “your beginning.”

[39:7]  ¹⁹ sn The basic sense of the word “holy” is “set apart from that which is commonplace, special, unique.” The Lord’s holiness is first and foremost his transcendent sovereignty as the ruler of the world. He is “set apart” from the world over which he rules. At the same time his holiness encompasses his moral authority, which derives from his royal position. As king he has the right to dictate to his subjects how they are to live; indeed his very own character sets the standard for proper behavior. This expression is a common title for the Lord in the book of Isaiah.

[40:1]  ²⁰ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ²¹ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ²² tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  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).

[40:1]  ²³ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).

[41:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “reed.”

[41:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

[45:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “a contribution.”

[45:1]  ²⁷ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

[45:1]  ²⁸ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

[45:1]  tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:1]  ²⁹ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

[45:4]  ³⁰ tc The LXX apparently understood “open land” instead of “sanctuary.”