Ezekiel 6:5

6:5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, 1  and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Ezekiel 14:5

14:5 I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

Ezekiel 23:30

23:30 I will do these things to you 2  because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

Ezekiel 23:49

23:49 They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. 3  Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel 36:18

36:18 So I poured my anger on them 4  because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. 5 

Ezekiel 36:25

36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water 6  and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Ezekiel 20:39

20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, 7  if you will not listen to me. 8  But my holy name will not be profaned 9  again by your sacrifices 10  and your idols.

1 tc This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a marginal explanatory note making its way into the text.

2 tn The infinitive absolute continues the sequence begun in v. 28: “Look here, I am about to deliver you.” See Joüon 2:430 §123.w.

3 tn Heb “and the sins of your idols you will bear.” By extension it can mean the punishment for the sins.

4 sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.

5 sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.

5 sn The Lord here uses a metaphor from the realm of ritual purification. For the use of water in ritual cleansing, see Exod 30:19-20; Lev 14:51; Num 19:18; Heb 10:22.

6 sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.

7 tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.

8 sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.

9 tn Or “gifts.”