Yehezkiel 4:6

4:6 “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days ¹  – I have assigned one day for each year.

Yehezkiel 5:4

5:4 Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, ²  and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

Yehezkiel 9:7

9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

Yehezkiel 11:13

11:13 Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, “Alas, sovereign Lord! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!” ³ 

Yehezkiel 16:34

16:34 You were different from other prostitutes ⁴  because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!

Yehezkiel 20:1

Israel’s Rebellion

20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, ⁵  some of the elders ⁶  of Israel came to seek ⁷  the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.

Yehezkiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ⁸  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ⁹  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ¹⁰  the most beautiful of all lands.

Yehezkiel 20:42

20:42 Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore ¹¹  to give to your fathers.

Yehezkiel 21:4

21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone ¹²  from the south ¹³  to the north.

Yehezkiel 21:21

21:21 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork ¹⁴  in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: ¹⁵  He shakes arrows, he consults idols, ¹⁶  he examines ¹⁷  animal livers. ¹⁸ 

Yehezkiel 22:30

22:30 “I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one. ¹⁹ 

Yehezkiel 24:23

24:23 Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you will not mourn or weep, but you will rot ²⁰  for your iniquities ²¹  and groan among yourselves.

Yehezkiel 30:11

30:11 He and his people with him,

the most terrifying of the nations, ²² 

will be brought there to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with corpses.

Yehezkiel 36:37

36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: ²³  I will multiply their people like sheep. ²⁴ 

Yehezkiel 43:25

43:25 “For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

Yehezkiel 44:22

44:22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel ²⁵  or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

Yehezkiel 44:27

44:27 On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 45:3

45:3 From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles ²⁶  and a width of three and one-third miles; ²⁷  in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place.

Yehezkiel 45:6

45:6 “‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles ²⁸  wide and eight and a quarter miles ²⁹  long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.

Yehezkiel 45:24

45:24 He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon ³⁰  of olive oil for each ephah of grain. ³¹ 

[4:6]  ¹ sn The number 40 may refer in general to the period of Judah’s exile using the number of years Israel was punished in the wilderness. In this case, however, one would need to translate, “you will bear the punishment of the house of Judah.”

[5:4]  ² tn Heb “into the midst of” (so KJV, ASV). This phrase has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.

[11:13]  ³ tc The LXX reads this statement as a question. Compare this to the question in 9:8. It is possible that the interrogative particle has been omitted by haplography. However, an exclamatory statement as in the MT also makes sense and the LXX may have simply tried to harmonize this passage with 9:8.

[16:34]  ⁴ tn Heb “With you it was opposite of women in your prostitution.”

[20:1]  ⁵ sn The date would be August 14th, 591 b.c. The seventh year is the seventh year of Jehoiachin’s exile.

[20:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “men from the elders.”

[20:1]  ⁷ tn See the note at 14:3.

[20:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

[20:6]  ⁹ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

[20:6]  ¹⁰ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

[20:42]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[21:4]  ¹² tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

[21:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

[21:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “mother.”

[21:21]  ¹⁵ sn Mesopotamian kings believed that the gods revealed the future through omens. They employed various divination techniques, some of which are included in the list that follows. A particularly popular technique was the examination and interpretation of the livers of animals. See R. R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel, 90-110.

[21:21]  ¹⁶ tn This word refers to personal idols that were apparently used for divination purposes (Gen 31:19; 1 Sam 19:13, 16).

[21:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “sees.”

[21:21]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the liver.”

[22:30]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “I did not find.”

[24:23]  ²⁰ tn The same verb appears in 4:17 and 33:10.

[24:23]  ²¹ tn Or “in your punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.

[30:11]  ²² tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).

[36:37]  ²³ tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”

[36:37]  ²⁴ sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”

[44:22]  ²⁵ tn Heb “from the offspring of the house of Israel.”

[45:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[45:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:6]  ²⁸ tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).

[45:6]  ²⁹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[45:24]  ³⁰ 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.

[45:24]  ³¹ tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.