Yehezkiel 6:11

6:11 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, “Ah!” because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence. ¹ 

Yehezkiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ²  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ³  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ⁴  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁵  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Yehezkiel 8:12

8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? ⁶  For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”

Yehezkiel 9:2

9:2 Next, I noticed ⁷  six men ⁸  coming from the direction of the upper gate ⁹  which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit ¹⁰  at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Yehezkiel 9:9

9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, ¹¹  for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ ¹² 

Yehezkiel 11:15

11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, ¹³  your relatives, ¹⁴  and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem ¹⁵  have said, ‘They have gone ¹⁶  far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

Yehezkiel 12:7

12:7 So I did just as I was commanded. I carried out my belongings packed for exile during the day, and at evening I dug myself a hole through the wall with my hands. I went out in the darkness, carrying my baggage ¹⁷  on my shoulder while they watched.

Yehezkiel 25:3

25:3 Say to the Ammonites, ‘Hear the word of the sovereign Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says: You said “Aha!” about my sanctuary when it was desecrated, about the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and about the house of Judah when they went into exile.

Yehezkiel 37:26

37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. ¹⁸  I will establish them, ¹⁹  increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

Yehezkiel 42:14

42:14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”

Yehezkiel 43:8

43:8 When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.

Yehezkiel 43:13

The Altar

43:13 “And these are the measurements of the altar: ²⁰  Its base ²¹  is 1¾ feet ²²  high, ²³  and 1¾ feet ²⁴  wide, and its border nine inches ²⁵  on its edge. This is to be the height ²⁶  of the altar.

Yehezkiel 44:2

44:2 The Lord said to me: “This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.

Yehezkiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ²⁷ 

Yehezkiel 44:19

44:19 When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. ²⁸ 

Yehezkiel 45:9

45:9 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, ²⁹  declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 47:12

47:12 On both sides of the river’s banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.” ³⁰ 

Yehezkiel 48:8

48:8 “Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles ³¹  wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.

Yehezkiel 48:10

48:10 These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles ³²  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ³³  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ³⁴  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ³⁵  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

Yehezkiel 48:15

48:15 “The remainder, one and two-thirds miles ³⁶  in width and eight and a quarter miles ³⁷  in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

[6:11]  ¹ sn By the sword and by famine and by pestilence. A similar trilogy of punishments is mentioned in Lev 26:25-26. See also Jer 14:12; 21:9; 27:8, 13; 29:18).

[8:3]  ² tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

[8:3]  ³ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ⁴ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:3]  ⁵ tn Or “image.”

[8:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:12]  sn This type of image is explicitly prohibited in the Mosaic law (Lev 26:1).

[9:2]  ⁷ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[9:2]  ⁸ sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.

[9:2]  ⁹ sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).

[9:2]  ¹⁰ tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.

[9:9]  ¹¹ tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”

[9:9]  ¹² sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.

[11:15]  ¹³ tc The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.

[11:15]  ¹⁴ tc The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ (gÿ’ullatekha, “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ (galutekha) or having read the א (aleph) as an internal mater lectionis for holem.

[11:15]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[11:15]  ¹⁶ tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).

[12:7]  ¹⁷ tn The words “my baggage” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied from the context.

[37:26]  ¹⁸ sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.

[37:26]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “give them.”

[43:13]  ²⁰ 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]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew term normally means “bosom.” Here it refers to a hollow in the ground.

[43:13]  ²² tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).

[43:13]  ²³ tn The word “high” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[43:13]  ²⁴ tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).

[43:13]  ²⁵ tn Heb “one span.” A span was three handbreadths, or about nine inches (i.e., 22.5 cm).

[43:13]  ²⁶ tc Heb “bulge, protuberance, mound.” The translation follows the LXX.

[44:9]  ²⁷ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

[44:19]  ²⁸ sn For a similar concept of the transmitting of holiness, see Exod 19:12-14; Lev 10:1-2; 2 Sam 6:7. Similar laws concerning the priest are found in Lev 10 and 21.

[45:9]  ²⁹ sn Evictions of the less fortunate by the powerful are described in 1 Kgs 21:1-16; Jer 22:1-5, 13-17; Ezek 22:25.

[47:12]  ³⁰ sn See Rev 22:1-2.

[48:8]  ³¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:10]  ³² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:10]  ³³ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ³⁴ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ³⁵ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:15]  ³⁶ tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).

[48:15]  ³⁷ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).