Ezekiel 1:3

1:3 the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel ¹  the son of Buzi, ²  at the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. ³  The hand ⁴  of the Lord came on him there).

Ezekiel 6:9

6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize ⁵  how I was crushed by their unfaithful ⁶  heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves ⁷  because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Ezekiel 8:1

A Desecrated Temple

8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, ⁸  as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand ⁹  of the sovereign Lord seized me. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ¹¹  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ¹²  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ¹³  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ¹⁴  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 11:16

11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little ¹⁵  sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

Ezekiel 12:16

12:16 But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 13:20

13:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note ¹⁶  that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives ¹⁷  like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.

Ezekiel 32:24

32:24 “Elam is there with all her hordes around her grave; all of them struck down by the sword. They went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, those who spread terror in the land of the living. Now they will bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.

Ezekiel 32:30

32:30 “All the leaders of the north are there, along with all the Sidonians; despite their might they have gone down in shameful terror with the dead. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.

Ezekiel 34:12

34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. ¹⁸ 

Ezekiel 34:14

34:14 In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush ¹⁹  pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 36:22

36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation ²⁰  which you profaned among the nations where you went.

Ezekiel 37:21

37:21 Then tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.

Ezekiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ²¹  was struck down, on this very day, ²²  the hand ²³  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ²⁴ 

Ezekiel 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.”

Ezekiel 46:19-20

46:19 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests which faced north. There I saw ²⁵  a place at the extreme western end. 46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”

¹ sn The prophet’s name, Ezekiel, means in Hebrew “May God strengthen.”

² tn Or “to Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest.”

³ tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon, “Chaldeans” is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon. The Babylonians worked with the Medes to destroy the Assyrian Empire near the end of the 7th century b.c. Then, over the next century, the Babylonians dominated the West Semitic states (such as Phoenicia, Aram, Moab, Edom, and Judah in the modern countries of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) and made incursions into Egypt.

⁴ tn Or “power.”

⁵ tn The words “they will realize” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added here for stylistic reasons since this clause assumes the previous verb “to remember” or “to take into account.”

⁶ tn Heb “how I was broken by their adulterous heart.” The image of God being “broken” is startling, but perfectly natural within the metaphorical framework of God as offended husband. The idiom must refer to the intense grief that Israel’s unfaithfulness caused God. For a discussion of the syntax and semantics of the Hebrew text, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:134.

⁷ tn Heb adds “in their faces.”

⁹ tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”

¹⁰ tn Or “power.”

¹¹ tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.

¹³ 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).

¹⁴ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

¹⁵ 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.

¹⁶ tn Or “image.”

¹⁷ tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).

²¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

²² tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”

²⁵ sn The imagery may reflect the overthrow of the Israelites by the Babylonians in 587/6 b.c.

²⁹ tn Heb “good.”

³³ sn In Ezek 20:22 God refrained from punishment for the sake of his holy name. Here God’s reputation is the basis for Israel’s restoration.

³⁷ sn That is, Jerusalem.

³⁸ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

³⁹ tn Or “power.”

⁴⁰ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).

⁴¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.