Yehezkiel 1:2

1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Yehezkiel 2:2

2:2 As he spoke to me, ¹  a wind ²  came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.

Yehezkiel 3:1

3:1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you ³  – eat this scroll – and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

Yehezkiel 3:4

3:4 He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

Yehezkiel 3:10

3:10 And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.

Yehezkiel 3:24

3:24 Then a wind ⁴  came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord ⁵  spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.

Yehezkiel 4:13

4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations ⁶  where I will banish them.”

Yehezkiel 4:15

4:15 So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

Yehezkiel 6:10

6:10 They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’ ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 7:14

7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. ⁸ 

Yehezkiel 7:22

7:22 I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. ⁹  Vandals will enter it and desecrate it. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 8:7

8:7 He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

Yehezkiel 11:2

11:2 The Lord ¹¹  said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.

Yehezkiel 11:10

11:10 You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 11:23

11:23 The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped ¹²  over the mountain east of it.

Yehezkiel 12:15

12:15 “Then they will know that I am the Lord when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

Yehezkiel 12:20

12:20 The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 18:11

18:11 (though the father did not do any of them). ¹³  He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, ¹⁴  defiles his neighbor’s wife,

Yehezkiel 21:5

21:5 Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath – it will not be sheathed again!’

Yehezkiel 21:17

21:17 I too will clap my hands together,

I will exhaust my rage;

I the Lord have spoken.”

Yehezkiel 23:36

23:36 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment ¹⁵  on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds!

Yehezkiel 24:1

The Boiling Pot

24:1 The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month ¹⁶ :

Yehezkiel 26:6

26:6 and her daughters ¹⁷  who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 29:1-2

A Prophecy Against Egypt

29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, ¹⁸  the word of the Lord came to me: 29:2 “Son of man, turn toward ¹⁹  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

Yehezkiel 29:17

29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ²⁰  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 30:8

30:8 They will know that I am the Lord

when I ignite a fire in Egypt

and all her allies are defeated. ²¹ 

Yehezkiel 30:20

30:20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, ²²  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 30:26--31:1

30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

A Cedar in Lebanon

31:1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, ²³  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 32:1

Lamentation over Pharaoh and Egypt

32:1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, ²⁴  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 32:19

32:19 Say to them, ²⁵  ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? ²⁶  Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!’

Yehezkiel 32:28

32:28 “But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

Yehezkiel 34:9

34:9 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

Yehezkiel 35:4

35:4 I will lay waste your cities;

and you will become desolate.

Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Yehezkiel 35:9

35:9 I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 36:1

Blessings on the Mountains of Israel

36:1 “As for you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord!

Yehezkiel 37:4

37:4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Yehezkiel 37:13

37:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

Yehezkiel 37:18

37:18 When your people ²⁷  say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’

Yehezkiel 38:2

38:2 “Son of man, turn toward ²⁸  Gog, ²⁹  of the land of Magog, ³⁰  the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. ³¹  Prophesy against him

Yehezkiel 40:45

40:45 He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple, ³² 

Yehezkiel 41:13

41:13 Then he measured the temple as 175 feet ³³  long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet ³⁴  long,

Yehezkiel 41:21

41:21 The doorposts of the outer sanctuary were square. In front of the sanctuary one doorpost looked just like the other.

Yehezkiel 42:8

42:8 For the chambers on the outer court were 87½ feet ³⁵  long, while those facing the temple were 175 feet ³⁶  long.

Yehezkiel 42:10

42:10 At the beginning ³⁷  of the wall of the court toward the south, ³⁸  facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers

Yehezkiel 43:6

43:6 I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.

Yehezkiel 44:1

The Closed Gate

44:1 Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.

Yehezkiel 44:14

44:14 Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

Yehezkiel 46:3

46:3 The people of the land will bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

Yehezkiel 46:24

46:24 Then he said to me, “These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.”

Yehezkiel 48:9

48:9 The allotment you set apart to the Lord will be eight and a quarter miles ³⁹  in length and three and one-third miles ⁴⁰  in width.

[2:2]  ¹ tc The phrase “as he spoke to me” is absent from the LXX.

[2:2]  ² tn Or “spirit.” NIV has “the Spirit,” but the absence of the article in the Hebrew text makes this unlikely. Elsewhere in Ezekiel the Lord’s Spirit is referred to as “the Spirit of the Lord” (11:5; 37:1), “the Spirit of God” (11:24), or “my (that is, the Lord’s) Spirit” (36:27; 37:14; 39:29). Some identify the “spirit” of 2:2 as the spirit that energized the living beings, however, that “spirit” is called “the spirit” (1:12, 20) or “the spirit of the living beings” (1:20-21; 10:17). Still others see the term as referring to an impersonal “spirit” of strength or courage, that is, the term may also be understood as a disposition or attitude. The Hebrew word often refers to a wind in Ezekiel (1:4; 5:10, 12; 12:4; 13:11, 13; 17:10, 21; 19:12; 27:26; 37:9). In 37:5-10 a “breath” originates in the “four winds” and is associated with the Lord’s life-giving breath (see v. 14). This breath enters into the dry bones and gives them life. In a similar fashion the breath of 2:2 (see also 3:24) energizes paralyzed Ezekiel. Breath and wind are related. On the one hand it is a more normal picture to think of breath rather than wind entering someone, but since wind represents an external force it seems more likely for wind rather than breath to stand someone up (unless we should understand it as a disposition). It may be that one should envision the breath of the speaker moving like a wind to revive Ezekiel, helping him to regain his breath and invigorating him to stand. A wind also transports the prophet from one place to another (3:12, 14; 8:3; 11:1, 24; 43:5).

[3:1]  ³ tn Heb “eat what you find.”

[3:24]  ⁴ tn See the note on “wind” in 2:2.

[3:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “he.”

[4:13]  ⁶ sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).

[6:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “not in vain did I speak to do to them this catastrophe.” The wording of the last half of v. 10 parallels God’s declaration after the sin of the golden calf (Exod 32:14).

[7:14]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

[7:22]  ⁹ sn My treasured place probably refers to the temple (however, cf. NLT “my treasured land”).

[7:22]  ¹⁰ sn Since the pronouns “it” are both feminine, they do not refer to the masculine “my treasured place”; instead they probably refer to Jerusalem or the land, both of which are feminine in Hebrew.

[11:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:23]  ¹² tn Heb “stood.”

[18:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.

[18:11]  ¹⁴ sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.

[23:36]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “will you judge.” Here the imperfect form of the verb is probably used with a desiderative nuance. Addressed to the prophet, “judge” means to warn of or pronounce God’s impending judgment. See 20:4; 22:2.

[24:1]  ¹⁶ tn The date of this oracle was January 15, 588 b.c.

[26:6]  ¹⁷ sn That is, the towns located inland that were under Tyre’s rule.

[29:1]  ¹⁸ tn January 7, 587 b.c.

[29:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “set your face against.”

[29:17]  ²⁰ sn April 26, 571 b.c.

[30:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “all who aid her are broken.”

[30:20]  ²² tn April 29, 587 b.c.

[31:1]  ²³ sn June 21, 587 b.c.

[32:1]  ²⁴ sn This would be March 3, 585 b.c.

[32:19]  ²⁵ tc The LXX places this verse after v. 21.

[32:19]  tn The words “say to them” are added in the translation for clarity to indicate the shift in addressee from the prophet to Egypt.

[32:19]  ²⁶ tn Heb “pleasantness.”

[37:18]  ²⁷ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

[38:2]  ²⁸ tn Heb “set your face against.”

[38:2]  ²⁹ sn This may refer to a Lydian king in western Asia Minor in the seventh century b.c. Apart from Ezek 38-39, the only other biblical reference to this king/nation is in Rev 20:8. For a study of the names appearing in this verse, see E. Yamauchi, Foes From the Northern Frontier, 19-27.

[38:2]  ³⁰ sn One of the sons of Japheth according to Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5.

[38:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “the prince, the chief of Meshech and Tubal.” Some translate “the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal,” but it is more likely that the Hebrew noun in question is a common noun in apposition to “prince,” rather than a proper name. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:434-35. As Block demonstrates, attempts by some popular writers to identify these proper names with later geographical sites in Russia are anachronistic. See as well E. Yamauchi, Foes From the Northern Frontier, 19-27.

[38:2]  sn Meshech and Tubal were two nations in Cappadocia of Asia Minor. They were also sons of Japheth (Gen 10:2; 1 Chr 1:5).

[40:45]  ³² tn Heb “the house.”

[41:13]  ³³ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

[41:13]  ³⁴ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

[42:8]  ³⁵ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[42:8]  ³⁶ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

[42:10]  ³⁷ tc The reading is supported by the LXX.

[42:10]  ³⁸ tc This reading is supported by the LXX; the MT reads “east.”

[48:9]  ³⁹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:9]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).