Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ¹  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ²  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ³  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁴  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 33:12

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, ⁵  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. ⁶  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. ⁷  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness ⁸  if he sins.’ ⁹ 

Ezekiel 43:7

43:7 He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne ¹⁰  and the place for the soles of my feet, ¹¹  where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die. ¹² 

Ezekiel 46:9

46:9 “‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate; whoever enters by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate. No one will return by way of the gate they entered but will go out straight ahead.

¹ tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

² tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

³ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴ tn Or “image.”

⁵ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

⁶ tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

⁷ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

⁸ tn Heb “by it.”

⁹ tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

⁹ sn God’s throne is mentioned in Isa 6:1; Jer 3:17.

¹⁰ sn See 1 Chr 28:2; Ps 99:5; 132:7; Isa 60:13; Lam 2:1.

¹¹ tn Heb “by their corpses in their death.” But the term normally translated “corpses” is better understood here as a reference to funeral pillars or funerary offerings. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:583-85, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:257.