Ezekiel 4:9

4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, ¹  put them in a single container, and make food ²  from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days ³  – you will eat it.

Ezekiel 9:2

9:2 Next, I noticed ⁴  six men ⁵  coming from the direction of the upper gate ⁶  which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit ⁷  at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 12:3

12:3 “Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, ⁸  although they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 32:27

32:27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, ⁹  who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, ¹⁰  when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 40:42

40:42 The four tables for the burnt offering were of carved stone, 32 inches ¹¹  long, 32 inches ¹²  wide, and 21 inches ¹³  high. They would put the instruments which they used to slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.

¹ sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.

² tn Heb “bread.”

³ tc The LXX reads “190 days.”

⁴ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

⁵ sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.

⁶ sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).

⁷ 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.

⁷ tn Heb “see.” This plays on the uses of “see” in v. 2. They will see his actions with their eyes and perhaps they will “see” with their mind, that is, understand or grasp the point.

¹⁰ tc Heb “of the uncircumcised.” The LXX reads, probably correctly, “from of old” rather than “of the uncircumcised.” The phrases are very similar in spelling. The warriors of Meshech-Tubal are described as uncircumcised, so it would be odd for them to not be buried with the uncircumcised. Verse 28 specifically says that they would lie with the uncircumcised.

¹¹ tn Heb “and their iniquities were over their bones.” The meaning of this statement is unclear; in light of the parallelism (see “swords”) it is preferable to emend “their iniquities” to “their swords.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:135.

¹³ tn Heb “one and a half cubits” (i.e., 78.75 cm).

¹⁴ tn Heb “one and a half cubits” (i.e., 78.75 cm).

¹⁵ tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm).