27:28 At the sound of your captains’ cry the waves will surge; 1
27:1 The word of the Lord came to me:
9:1 Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, 5 you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!” 9:2 Next, I noticed 6 six men 7 coming from the direction of the upper gate 8 which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit 9 at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.
2:1 He said to me, “Son of man, 10 stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”
2:1 He said to me, “Son of man, 11 stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”
1 tn Compare this phrase to Isa 57:20 and Amos 8:8. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:561.
2 sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3; Jonah 1:2.
3 tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”
4 sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.
5 tc Heb “they approached.” Reading the imperative assumes the same consonantal text but different vowels.
6 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
7 sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.
8 sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).
9 tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.
10 sn The phrase son of man occurs ninety-three times in the book of Ezekiel. It simply means “human one,” and distinguishes the prophet from the nonhuman beings that are present in the world of his vision.
11 sn The phrase son of man occurs ninety-three times in the book of Ezekiel. It simply means “human one,” and distinguishes the prophet from the nonhuman beings that are present in the world of his vision.