Yehezkiel 19:9
Konteks19:9 They put him in a collar with hooks; 1
they brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him to prison 2
so that his voice would not be heard
any longer on the mountains of Israel.
Daniel 1:1
Konteks1:1 In the third 3 year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar 4 of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem 5 and laid it under siege. 6
[19:9] 1 tn Or “They put him in a neck stock with hooks.” The noun סּוּגַר (sugar), translated “collar,” occurs only here in the Bible. L. C. Allen and D. I. Block point out a Babylonian cognate that refers to a device for transporting prisoners of war that held them by their necks (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:597, n. 35; L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:284). Based on the Hebrew root, the traditional rendering had been “cage” (cf. ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
[19:9] 2 tc The term in the MT occurs only here and in Eccl 9:12 where it refers to a net for catching fish. The LXX translates this as “prison,” which assumes a confusion of dalet and resh took place in the MT.
[1:1] 3 sn The third year of the reign of Jehoiakim would be ca. 605
[1:1] 4 sn King Nebuchadnezzar ruled Babylon from ca. 605-562
[1:1] 5 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[1:1] 6 sn This attack culminated in the first of three major deportations of Jews to Babylon. The second one occurred in 597