Yehezkiel 7:11
Konteks7:11 Violence 1 has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left 2 – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. 3
Yehezkiel 16:14
Konteks16:14 Your fame 4 spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord. 5
Yehezkiel 16:24
Konteks16:24 you built yourself a chamber 6 and put up a pavilion 7 in every public square.
Yehezkiel 27:25
Konteks27:25 The ships of Tarshish 8 were the transports for your merchandise.
“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
[7:11] 1 tn Heb “the violence.”
[7:11] 2 tc The LXX reads “he will crush the wicked rod without confusion or haste.”
[7:11] tn The verb has been supplied for the Hebrew text to clarify the sense.
[7:11] 3 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
[16:14] 5 sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.
[16:24] 6 tn The Hebrew גֶּב (gev) may represent more than one word, each rare in the Old Testament. It may refer to a “mound” or to “rafters.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate interpret this as a brothel.
[16:24] 7 tn Or “lofty place” (NRSV). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:229, and B. Lang, Frau Weisheit, 137.
[27:25] 8 tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.