8:9 He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”
1 tn Heb “shofar,” a ram’s horn rather than a brass instrument (so throughout the chapter).
2 tn Sounding the trumpet was a warning of imminent danger (Neh 4:18-20; Jer 4:19; Amos 3:6).
1 tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”
2 tn That is, the aforementioned bone.
1 tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).
2 tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”
3 tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.