Yehezkiel 13:19

13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people ¹  who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!

Yehezkiel 20:39

20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, ²  if you will not listen to me. ³  But my holy name will not be profaned ⁴  again by your sacrifices ⁵  and your idols.

Yehezkiel 43:7-8

43:7 He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne ⁶  and the place for the soles of my feet, ⁷  where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die. ⁸  43:8 When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.

[13:19]  ¹ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”

[20:39]  ² sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.

[20:39]  ³ tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.

[20:39]  ⁴ sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.

[20:39]  ⁵ tn Or “gifts.”

[43:7]  ⁶ sn God’s throne is mentioned in Isa 6:1; Jer 3:17.

[43:7]  ⁷ sn See 1 Chr 28:2; Ps 99:5; 132:7; Isa 60:13; Lam 2:1.

[43:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “by their corpses in their death.” But the term normally translated “corpses” is better understood here as a reference to funeral pillars or funerary offerings. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:583-85, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:257.