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 ¹  that you had reached the age for love. ²  I spread my cloak ³  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 24:21

24:21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary – the source of your confident pride, ⁴  the object in which your eyes delight, ⁵  and your life’s passion. ⁶  Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die ⁷  by the sword.

Yehezkiel 38:16

38:16 You will advance ⁸  against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself ⁹  through you, O Gog.

Yehezkiel 43:13

The Altar

43:13 “And these are the measurements of the altar: ¹⁰  Its base ¹¹  is 1¾ feet ¹²  high, ¹³  and 1¾ feet ¹⁴  wide, and its border nine inches ¹⁵  on its edge. This is to be the height ¹⁶  of the altar.

Yehezkiel 48:18

48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles ¹⁷  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.

[16:8]  ¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a participle.

[16:8]  ² tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13.

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

[24:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”

[24:21]  ⁵ sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”) so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.

[24:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”

[24:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “fall.”

[38:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “come up.”

[38:16]  ⁹ tn Or “reveal my holiness.”

[43:13]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew term normally means “bosom.” Here it refers to a hollow in the ground.

[43:13]  ¹² tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).

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

[43:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).

[43:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “one span.” A span was three handbreadths, or about nine inches (i.e., 22.5 cm).

[43:13]  ¹⁶ tc Heb “bulge, protuberance, mound.” The translation follows the LXX.

[48:18]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.