9:1 Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, 4 you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”
14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill 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 11 I acted just as I was commanded.
1 tn Heb “I have assigned for you that the years of their iniquity be the number of days.” Num 14:33-34 is an example of the reverse, where the days were converted into years, the number of days spying out the land becoming the number of years of the wilderness wanderings.
2 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
3 tn Or “When you have carried the iniquity of the house of Israel,” and continuing on to the next verse.
4 tc Heb “they approached.” Reading the imperative assumes the same consonantal text but different vowels.
7 sn This law was given in Lev 25:36.
8 tn Heb, “turns back his hand.”
9 tn Heb “justice of truth.”
10 tn Heb “her time”; this refers to the time of impending judgment (see the note on “doom” in v. 4).
13 tn Heb “lean on, put pressure on.”
14 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
16 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.
19 tn In Hebrew the verb “and I will cut off” sounds like its object, “the Cherethites,” and draws attention to the statement.
20 sn This is a name for the Philistines, many of whom migrated to Palestine from Crete.
22 tn Heb “I will multiply on you human(s).”
25 sn Eating the fat and drinking blood were God’s exclusive rights in Israelite sacrifices (Lev 3:17).
26 tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).
28 sn See Rev 21:12-14.