Yehezkiel 1:2

1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Yehezkiel 3:6

3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand ¹  – surely if ²  I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

Yehezkiel 4:13

4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations ³  where I will banish them.”

Yehezkiel 16:10

16:10 I dressed you in embroidered clothing and put fine leather sandals on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

Yehezkiel 20:11

20:11 I gave them my statutes ⁴  and revealed my regulations to them. The one ⁵  who carries ⁶  them out will live by them! ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 20:25

20:25 I also gave ⁸  them decrees ⁹  which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

Yehezkiel 21:13

21:13 “‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? ¹⁰  declares the sovereign Lord.’

Yehezkiel 37:4

37:4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “hear.”

[3:6]  ² tc The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.

[4:13]  ³ sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).

[20:11]  ⁴ sn The laws were given at Mount Sinai.

[20:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “the man.”

[20:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “does.”

[20:11]  ⁷ tn The wording and the concept is contained in Lev 18:5 and Deut 30:15-19.

[20:25]  ⁸ tn Or “permitted.”

[20:25]  sn The content of the verse is shocking: that God would “give” bad decrees. This probably does not refer to the Mosaic law but to the practices of the Canaanites who were left in the land in order to test Israel. See Judg 2:20-23, the note on “decrees” in v. 25, and the note on “pass through the fire” in v. 26.

[20:25]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew term חֻקּוֹת (khuqot; translated “statutes” elsewhere in this chapter) is normally feminine. Here Ezekiel changes the form to masculine: חֻקִּים (khuqim). Further, they are not called “my decrees” as vv. 11 and 13 refer to “my statutes.” The change is a signal that Ezekiel is not talking about the same statutes in vv. 11 and 13, which lead to life.

[21:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “For testing (will come) and what if also a scepter, it despises, will not be?” The translation understands the subject of the verb “despises,” which is a feminine form in the Hebrew text, to be the sword (which is a feminine noun) mentioned in the previous verses. The text is very difficult and any rendering is uncertain.