Yehezkiel 16:47

16:47 Have you not copied their behavior ¹  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ²  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

Yehezkiel 23:42

23:42 The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her, ³  including all kinds of men; ⁴  even Sabeans ⁵  were brought from the desert. The sisters ⁶  put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

Yehezkiel 31:5

31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,

because of the plentiful water in its shoots. ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 42:5

42:5 Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

[16:47]  ¹ tn Heb “walked in their ways.”

[16:47]  ² tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.

[23:42]  ³ tn Heb “(was) in her.”

[23:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “and men from the multitude of mankind.”

[23:42]  ⁵ tn An alternate reading is “drunkards.” Sheba is located in the area of modern day Yemen.

[23:42]  ⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referents (the sisters) have been specified in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[31:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).