Ezekiel 1:28

1:28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. ¹  This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw ²  it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

Ezekiel 10:8

10:8 (The cherubim appeared to have the form ³  of human hands under their wings.)

Ezekiel 16:58

16:58 You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 23:26

23:26 They will strip your clothes off you and take away your beautiful jewelry.

Ezekiel 27:14

27:14 Beth Togarmah exchanged horses, chargers, ⁴  and mules for your products.

Ezekiel 36:3

36:3 So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip ⁵  and slander among the people,

Ezekiel 42:18

42:18 He measured the south side as 875 feet by the measuring stick.

Ezekiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ⁶  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ⁷  and the width three and one-third miles. ⁸  This entire area will be holy. ⁹ 

¹ sn Reference to the glowing substance and the brilliant light and storm phenomena in vv. 27-28a echoes in reverse order the occurrence of these phenomena in v. 4.

² tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.

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

⁵ tn The way in which these horses may have been distinguished from other horses is unknown. Cf. ASV “war-horses” (NASB, NIV, NRSV, CEV all similar); NLT “chariot horses.”

⁷ tn Heb “lip of the tongue.”

⁹ tn Heb “a contribution.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here 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 miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

¹¹ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

¹² tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”