Yehezkiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ¹  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ²  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ³  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁴  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Yehezkiel 11:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

11:1 A wind ⁵  lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 11:7

11:7 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped ⁷  in the midst of the city ⁸  are the meat, and this city ⁹  is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 11:15

11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, ¹¹  your relatives, ¹²  and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem ¹³  have said, ‘They have gone ¹⁴  far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

Yehezkiel 12:12

12:12 “The prince ¹⁵  who is among them will raise his belongings ¹⁶  onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He ¹⁷  will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

Yehezkiel 23:25

23:25 I will direct ¹⁸  my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, ¹⁹  and your survivors will die ²⁰  by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Yehezkiel 39:23

39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, ²¹  for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

Yehezkiel 44:30

44:30 The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind ²²  will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

Yehezkiel 46:19

46:19 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 ²³  a place at the extreme western end.

[8:3]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

[8:3]  ² tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ³ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:3]  ⁴ tn Or “image.”

[11:1]  ⁵ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[11:1]  ⁶ sn The phrase officials of the people occurs in Neh 11:1; 1 Chr 21:2; 2 Chr 24:23.

[11:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “placed.”

[11:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “in its midst.”

[11:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “she/it.” See v. 3.

[11:7]  ¹⁰ tc Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).

[11:15]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[11:15]  ¹⁴ 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”).

[12:12]  ¹⁵ sn The prince is a reference to Zedekiah.

[12:12]  ¹⁶ tn The words “his belongings” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.

[12:12]  ¹⁷ tc The MT reads “they”; the LXX and Syriac read “he.”

[23:25]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “give.”

[23:25]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “they will remove.”

[23:25]  sn This method of punishment is attested among ancient Egyptian and Hittite civilizations. See W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:489.

[23:25]  ²⁰ tn Heb “fall.”

[39:23]  ²¹ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.

[44:30]  ²² tn Heb has in addition “from your contributions,” a repetition unnecessary in English.

[46:19]  ²³ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.