Ezekiel 38:7

38:7 “‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them. ¹ 

Ezekiel 4:7

4:7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 7:14

7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. ² 

Ezekiel 40:43

40:43 There were hooks ³  three inches ⁴  long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Ezekiel 16:7

16:7 I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ⁵  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ⁶  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 28:13

28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. ⁷ 

Every precious stone was your covering,

the ruby, topaz, and emerald,

the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,

the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; ⁸ 

your settings and mounts were made of gold.

On the day you were created they were prepared.

¹ tn The second person singular verbal and pronominal forms in the Hebrew text indicate that Gog is addressed here.

² tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

³ tc This reading is supported by the Aramaic Targum. The LXX, Vulgate, and Syriac read “shelves” or some type of projection.

⁴ tn Heb “one handbreadth” (7.5 cm).

⁴ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

⁵ tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

⁵ sn The imagery of the lament appears to draw upon an extrabiblical Eden tradition about the expulsion of the first man (see v. 14 and the note there) from the garden due to his pride. The biblical Eden tradition speaks of cherubs placed as guardians at the garden entrance following the sin of Adam and Eve (Gen 3:24), but no guardian cherub like the one described in verse 14 is depicted or mentioned in the biblical account. Ezekiel’s imagery also appears to reflect Mesopotamian and Canaanite mythology at certain points. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:119-20.

⁶ tn The exact identification of each gemstone is uncertain. The list should be compared to that of the priest in Exod 28:17-20, which lists twelve stones in rows of three. The LXX apparently imports the Exod 28 list. See reference to the types of stones in L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.