Ezekiel 18:10

18:10 “Suppose such a man has ¹  a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things ²  mentioned previously

Ezekiel 16:4

16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; ³  you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 16:20

16:20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them ⁵  as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough,

Ezekiel 18:14

18:14 “But suppose he in turn has a son who notices all the sins his father commits, considers them, and does not follow his father’s example. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 23:4

23:4 Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah ⁷  the name of her younger sister. They became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. ⁸  Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 23:37

23:37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, ⁹  they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 31:6

31:6 All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs;

under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,

in its shade all the great ¹¹  nations lived.

Ezekiel 16:5

16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; ¹²  you were thrown out into the open field ¹³  because you were detested on the day you were born.

Ezekiel 47:22

47:22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “begets.”

² tn Heb “and he does, a brother, from one of these.” If “brother” is retained, it may be an adverbial accusative, “against a brother” (i.e., fellow Israelite). But the form is likely dittographic (note the אח [aleph-heth] combination in the following form).

³ tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).

⁴ sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

⁵ sn The sacrifice of children was prohibited in Lev 18:21; 20:2; Deut 12:31; 18:10.

⁷ tn Heb “and he sees and does not do likewise.”

⁹ tn The names Oholah and Oholibah are both derived from the word meaning “tent.” The meaning of Oholah is “her tent,” while Oholibah means “my tent is in her.”

¹⁰ sn In this allegory the Lord is depicted as being the husband of two wives. The OT law prohibited a man from marrying sisters (Lev 18:18), but the practice is attested in the OT (cf. Jacob). The metaphor is utilized here for illustrative purposes and does not mean that the Lord condoned such a practice or bigamy in general.

¹¹ sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.

¹² tn Heb “they have passed to them for food.” The verb is commonly taken to refer to passing children through fire, especially as an offering to the pagan god Molech. See Jer 32:35.

¹³ tn Or “many.”

¹⁵ sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10.

¹⁶ sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10.

¹⁷ sn A similar attitude toward non-Israelites is found in Isa 56:3-8.