Yehezkiel 4:16

4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply ¹  in Jerusalem. ²  They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

Yehezkiel 5:2

5:2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

Yehezkiel 8:17

8:17 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! ³ 

Yehezkiel 9:8

9:8 While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out, “Ah, sovereign Lord! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?”

Yehezkiel 13:18

13:18 and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands ⁴  on all their wrists ⁵  and make headbands ⁶  for heads of every size to entrap people’s lives! ⁷  Will you entrap my people’s lives, yet preserve your own lives?

Yehezkiel 14:16

14:16 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate.

Yehezkiel 16:7-8

16:7 I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

16:8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing ⁸  that you had reached the age for love. ⁹  I spread my cloak ¹⁰  over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Yehezkiel 16:27

16:27 So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

Yehezkiel 17:12

17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ¹¹  ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ ¹²  Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem ¹³  and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

Yehezkiel 17:15-16

17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family ¹⁴  rebelled against the king of Babylon ¹⁵  by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ¹⁶  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Yehezkiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ¹⁷  to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

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, ¹⁸  if you will not listen to me. ¹⁹  But my holy name will not be profaned ²⁰  again by your sacrifices ²¹  and your idols.

Yehezkiel 21:29

21:29 while seeing false visions for you

and reading lying omens for you ²²  –

to place that sword ²³  on the necks of the profane wicked, ²⁴ 

whose day has come,

the time of final punishment.

Yehezkiel 23:4

23:4 Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah ²⁵  the name of her younger sister. They became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. ²⁶  Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

Yehezkiel 23:25

23:25 I will direct ²⁷  my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, ²⁸  and your survivors will die ²⁹  by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Yehezkiel 29:5

29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your waterways;

you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. ³⁰ 

I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

Yehezkiel 32:10

32:10 I will shock many peoples with you,

and their kings will shiver with horror because of you.

When I brandish my sword before them,

every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.

Yehezkiel 32:24

32:24 “Elam is there with all her hordes around her grave; all of them struck down by the sword. They went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, those who spread terror in the land of the living. Now they will bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 33:13

33:13 Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.

Yehezkiel 34:16

34:16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!

Yehezkiel 35:11

35:11 therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.

Yehezkiel 36:2

36:2 This is what the sovereign Lord says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights ³¹  have become our property!”’

Yehezkiel 36:23

36:23 I will magnify ³²  my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.

Yehezkiel 39:7

39:7 “‘I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. ³³ 

Yehezkiel 40:5

40:5 I saw ³⁴  a wall all around the outside of the temple. ³⁵  In the man’s hand was a measuring stick 10½ feet ³⁶  long. He measured the thickness of the wall ³⁷  as 10½ feet, ³⁸  and its height as 10½ feet.

Yehezkiel 40:44

40:44 On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one ³⁹  at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south ⁴⁰  gate facing north.

Yehezkiel 41:15

41:15 Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, with its galleries on either side as 175 feet. ⁴¹ 

The interior of the outer sanctuary and the porch of the court, ⁴² 

Yehezkiel 43:13

The Altar

43:13 “And these are the measurements of the altar: ⁴³  Its base ⁴⁴  is 1¾ feet ⁴⁵  high, ⁴⁶  and 1¾ feet ⁴⁷  wide, and its border nine inches ⁴⁸  on its edge. This is to be the height ⁴⁹  of the altar.

Yehezkiel 43:27

43:27 When the prescribed period is over, ⁵⁰  on the eighth day and thereafter the priests will offer up on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; ⁵¹  I will accept you, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Yehezkiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ⁵²  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ⁵³  and the width three and one-third miles. ⁵⁴  This entire area will be holy. ⁵⁵ 

Yehezkiel 46:7

46:7 He will provide a grain offering: an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wishes, ⁵⁶  and a gallon ⁵⁷  of olive oil with each ephah of grain. ⁵⁸ 

Yehezkiel 46:11

46:11 “‘At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able, ⁵⁹  and a gallon ⁶⁰  of olive oil with each ephah of grain. ⁶¹ 

Yehezkiel 48:18

48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles ⁶²  to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.

[4:16]  ¹ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.

[4:16]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:17]  ³ tn It is not clear what the practice of “holding a branch to the nose” indicates. A possible parallel is the Syrian relief of a king holding a flower to his nose as he worships the stars (ANEP 281). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:145-46. The LXX glosses the expression as “Behold, they are like mockers.”

[13:18]  ⁴ sn The wristbands mentioned here probably represented magic bands or charms. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:413.

[13:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “joints of the hands.” This may include the elbow and shoulder joints.

[13:18]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term occurs in the Bible only here and in v. 21. It has also been understood as a veil or type of head covering. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:414) suggests that given the context of magical devices, the expected parallel to the magical arm bands, and the meaning of this Hebrew root (סָפַח [safakh, “to attach” or “join”]), it may refer to headbands or necklaces on which magical amulets were worn.

[13:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls” (three times in v. 18 and twice in v. 19).

[16:8]  ⁸ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a participle.

[16:8]  ⁹ tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13.

[16:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “wing” or “skirt.” The gesture symbolized acquiring a woman in early Arabia (similarly, see Deut 22:30; Ruth 3:9).

[17:12]  ¹¹ tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.

[17:12]  sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).

[17:12]  ¹² sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.

[17:12]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[17:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:16]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “place.”

[20:15]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:39]  ¹⁸ sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.

[20:39]  ¹⁹ 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]  ²⁰ sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.

[20:39]  ²¹ tn Or “gifts.”

[21:29]  ²² tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.

[21:29]  ²³ tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:29]  ²⁴ sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.

[23:4]  ²⁵ tn The names Oholah and Oholibah are both derived from the word meaning “tent.” The meaning of Oholah is “her tent,” while Oholibah means “my tent is in her.”

[23:4]  ²⁶ sn In this allegory the Lord is depicted as being the husband of two wives. The OT law prohibited a man from marrying sisters (Lev 18:18), but the practice is attested in the OT (cf. Jacob). The metaphor is utilized here for illustrative purposes and does not mean that the Lord condoned such a practice or bigamy in general.

[23:25]  ²⁷ tn Heb “give.”

[23:25]  ²⁸ 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]  ²⁹ tn Heb “fall.”

[29:5]  ³⁰ tc Some Hebrew mss, the Targum, and the LXX read “buried.”

[36:2]  ³¹ tn Or “high places.”

[36:23]  ³² tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”

[39:7]  ³³ sn The basic sense of the word “holy” is “set apart from that which is commonplace, special, unique.” The Lord’s holiness is first and foremost his transcendent sovereignty as the ruler of the world. He is “set apart” from the world over which he rules. At the same time his holiness encompasses his moral authority, which derives from his royal position. As king he has the right to dictate to his subjects how they are to live; indeed his very own character sets the standard for proper behavior. This expression is a common title for the Lord in the book of Isaiah.

[40:5]  ³⁴ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[40:5]  ³⁵ tn Heb “house.”

[40:5]  ³⁶ tn Heb “a measuring stick of six cubits, [each] a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Therefore the measuring stick in the man’s hand was 10.5 feet (3.15 meters) long. Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

[40:5]  ³⁷ tn Heb “building.”

[40:5]  ³⁸ tn Heb “one rod [or “reed”]” (also a second time in this verse, twice in v. 6, three times in v. 7, and once in v. 8).

[40:44]  ³⁹ tn “One” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied for clarity in the translation.

[40:44]  ⁴⁰ tc This reading is supported by the LXX; the MT reads “east.”

[41:15]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

[41:15]  ⁴² tc Some Hebrew mss read “and its outer court.”

[43:13]  ⁴³ tn Heb “the measurements of the altar by cubits, the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth.” The measuring units here and in the remainder of this section are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard feet and inches, with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes. On the altar see Ezek 40:47.

[43:13]  ⁴⁴ tn The Hebrew term normally means “bosom.” Here it refers to a hollow in the ground.

[43:13]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).

[43:13]  ⁴⁶ tn The word “high” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[43:13]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).

[43:13]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “one span.” A span was three handbreadths, or about nine inches (i.e., 22.5 cm).

[43:13]  ⁴⁹ tc Heb “bulge, protuberance, mound.” The translation follows the LXX.

[43:27]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “and they will complete the days.”

[43:27]  ⁵¹ sn The people also could partake of the food of the peace offering (Lev 3).

[45:1]  ⁵² tn Heb “a contribution.”

[45:1]  ⁵³ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

[45:1]  ⁵⁴ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

[45:1]  tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:1]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”

[46:7]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “with the lambs as his hand can reach.”

[46:7]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.

[46:7]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.

[46:11]  ⁵⁹ tn Or “as much as he wishes.” Heb “a gift of his hand.”

[46:11]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.

[46:11]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.

[48:18]  ⁶² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.