27:11 The Arvadites 3 joined your army on your walls all around,
and the Gammadites 4 were in your towers.
They hung their quivers 5 on your walls all around;
they perfected your beauty.
1 tn The same verb appears in 4:17 and 33:10.
2 tn Or “in your punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
3 tn Heb “sons of Arvad.”
4 sn The identity of the Gammadites is uncertain.
5 tn See note on “quivers” in Jer 51:11 on the meaning of Hebrew שֶׁלֶט (shelet) and also M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:553.
5 tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).
6 tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).
7 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).
8 tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).
9 tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”
9 tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).
10 tc The translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “the width of the gate was three cubits,” the omission due to haplography.
11 tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).
12 tn Heb “forty cubits” (i.e., 21 meters).
13 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).