Yehezkiel 1:20

1:20 Wherever the spirit ¹  would go, they would go, ²  and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit ³  of the living being was in the wheel.

Yehezkiel 2:10

2:10 He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front ⁴  and back; ⁵  written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

Yehezkiel 10:16

10:16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the cherubim spread ⁶  their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not move from their side.

Yehezkiel 31:3

31:3 Consider Assyria, ⁷  a cedar in Lebanon, ⁸ 

with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,

and extremely tall;

its top reached into the clouds.

Yehezkiel 41:18

41:18 It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces:

Yehezkiel 48:28

48:28 Next to the border of Gad, at the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the Stream of Egypt ⁹  and on to the Great Sea.

[1:20]  ¹ tn Or “wind”; the same Hebrew word can be translated as either “wind” or “spirit” depending on the context.

[1:20]  ² tc The MT adds the additional phrase “the spirit would go,” which seems unduly redundant here and may be dittographic.

[1:20]  ³ tn Or “wind.” The Hebrew is difficult since the text presents four creatures and then talks about “the spirit” (singular) of “the living being” (singular). According to M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:45) the Targum interprets this as “will.” Greenberg views this as the spirit of the one enthroned above the creatures, but one would not expect the article when the one enthroned has not yet been introduced.

[2:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “on the face.”

[2:10]  ⁵ sn Written on the front and back. While it was common for papyrus scrolls to have writing on both sides the same was not true for leather scrolls.

[10:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “lifted.”

[31:3]  ⁷ sn Either Egypt, or the Lord compares Egypt to Assyria, which is described in vv. 3-17 through the metaphor of a majestic tree. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:185. Like Egypt, Assyria had been a great world power, but in time God brought the Assyrians down. Egypt should learn from history the lesson that no nation, no matter how powerful, can withstand the judgment of God. Rather than following the text here, some prefer to emend the proper name Assyria to a similar sounding common noun meaning “boxwood” (see Ezek 27:6), which would make a fitting parallel to “cedar of Lebanon” in the following line. In this case vv. 3-18 in their entirety refer to Egypt, not Assyria. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:121-27.

[31:3]  ⁸ sn Lebanon was know for its cedar trees (Judg 9:15; 1 Kgs 4:33; 5:6; 2 Kgs 14:9; Ezra 3:7; Pss 29:5; 92:12; 104:16).

[48:28]  ⁹ tn Traditionally “the Brook of Egypt,” although a number of recent translations have “the Wadi of Egypt” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The word “Egypt” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.