Ezekiel 2:4

2:4 The people ¹  to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, ²  and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ ³ 

Ezekiel 24:22

24:22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 37:2

37:2 He made me walk all around among them. ⁵  I realized ⁶  there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

Ezekiel 40:23

40:23 Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 40:25-26

40:25 There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; ⁸  87½ feet ⁹  long and 43¾ feet ¹⁰  wide. 40:26 There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.

¹ tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son.

² tc Heb “stern of face and hard of heart.” The phrases “stern of face” and “hard of heart” are lacking in the LXX.

³ tn The phrase “thus says [the Lord]” occurs 129 times in Ezekiel; the announcement is identical to the way messengers often introduced their messages (Gen 32:5; 45:9; Exod 5:10; Num 20:14; Judg 11:15).

⁴ tn See v. 17.

⁷ tn Heb “and he made me pass over them, around, around.”

⁸ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and is here translated as “I realized” because it results from Ezekiel’s recognition of the situation around him. In Hebrew, the exclamation is repeated in the following sentence.

¹⁰ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

¹³ tn Heb “as these windows.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

¹⁵ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).