3:24 Then a wind 1 came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord 2 spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.
14:19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.
24:18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning 6 I acted just as I was commanded.
34:23 I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them – namely, my servant David. 8 He will feed them and will be their shepherd.
36:8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon. 12
1 tn See the note on “wind” in 2:2.
2 tn Heb “he.”
3 tn The Hebrew verb is feminine plural, indicating that it is the false prophetesses who are addressed here.
5 tn Or “set apart my Sabbaths.”
6 tn Heb “and they will become a sign between me and you.”
7 tn This may refer to the following morning. For a discussion of various interpretive options in understanding the chronology reflected in verse 18, see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:790.
9 tn Heb “with acts of punishment of anger.”
11 sn The messianic king is here called “David” (see Jer 30:9 and Hos 3:5, as well as Isa 11:1 and Mic 5:2) because he will fulfill the Davidic royal ideal depicted in the prophets and royal psalms (see Ps 2, 89).
13 tn Heb “showers of blessing.” Abundant rain, which in turn produces fruit and crops (v. 27), is a covenantal blessing for obedience (Lev 26:4).
15 sn A promise given to Abraham (Gen 15:7) and his descendants (Gen 15:8; Exod 6:7).
16 sn The blessings described in vv. 25-30 are those promised for obedience in Lev 26:4-13.
17 tn Heb “they draw near to arrive.”
19 sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.
20 sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.
21 sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.
23 sn This task was a fundamental role of the priest (Lev 10:10).