Yehezkiel 3:22

Isolated and Silenced

3:22 The hand ¹  of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, ²  and I will speak with you there.”

Yehezkiel 4:1

Ominous Object Lessons

4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick ³  and set it in front of you. Inscribe ⁴  a city on it – Jerusalem.

Yehezkiel 4:12

4:12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.” ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 8:11

8:11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel ⁶  (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant ⁷  vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

Yehezkiel 9:4

9:4 The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem ⁸  and put a mark ⁹  on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”

Yehezkiel 11:11

11:11 This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not ¹⁰  be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.

Yehezkiel 22:30

22:30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. ¹¹ 

Yehezkiel 25:4

25:4 So take note, ¹²  I am about to make you slaves of ¹³  the tribes ¹⁴  of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Yehezkiel 31:17

31:17 Those who lived in its shade, its allies ¹⁵  among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.

Yehezkiel 32:4

32:4 I will leave you on the ground,

I will fling you on the open field,

I will allow ¹⁶  all the birds of the sky to settle ¹⁷  on you,

and I will permit ¹⁸  all the wild animals ¹⁹  to gorge themselves on you.

Yehezkiel 32:26

32:26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. ²⁰  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Yehezkiel 39:6

39:6 I will send fire on Magog and those who live securely in the coastlands; then they will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 40:47

40:47 He measured the court as a square 175 feet long and 175 feet wide; ²¹  the altar was in front of the temple.

Yehezkiel 42:1

Chambers for the Temple

42:1 Then he led me out to the outer court, toward the north, and brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and opposite the building on the north.

[3:22]  ¹ tn Or “power.”

[3:22]  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 (1:3; 3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[3:22]  ² sn Ezekiel had another vision at this location, recounted in Ezek 37.

[4:1]  ³ sn Ancient Near Eastern bricks were 10 to 24 inches long and 6 to 13 1/2 inches wide.

[4:1]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps “draw.”

[4:12]  ⁵ sn Human waste was to remain outside the camp of the Israelites according to Deut 23:15.

[8:11]  ⁶ sn Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).

[8:11]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[9:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.”

[9:4]  map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:4]  ⁹ tn The word translated “mark” is in Hebrew the letter ת (tav). Outside this context the only other occurrence of the word is in Job 31:35. In ancient Hebrew script this letter was written like the letter X.

[9:4]  sn For a similar concept in the Bible, see Rev 7:2-4; 13:16; 14:9, 11; 20:4; 22:4.

[11:11]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text does not have the negative particle, but it is implied. The negative particle in the previous line does double duty here.

[22:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I did not find.”

[25:4]  ¹² tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something and has been translated here with a verb (so also throughout the chapter).

[25:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “Look I am about to give you for a possession to.”

[25:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “sons.”

[31:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “its arm.”

[32:4]  ¹⁶ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “live.”

[32:4]  ¹⁸ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.

[32:26]  ²⁰ tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).

[40:47]  ²¹ tn Heb “one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, a square” (i.e., 52.5 meters by 52.5 meters).