Ezekiel 1:15

1:15 Then I looked, ¹  and I saw one wheel ²  on the ground ³  beside each of the four beings.

Ezekiel 1:23

1:23 Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering ⁴  its body.

Ezekiel 3:24

3:24 Then a wind ⁵  came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord ⁶  spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.

Ezekiel 16:16

16:16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 18:2

18:2 “What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel,

“‘The fathers eat sour grapes

And the children’s teeth become numb?’ ⁸ 

Ezekiel 23:45

23:45 But upright men will punish them appropriately for their adultery and bloodshed, ⁹  because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

Ezekiel 24:8

24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,

I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

Ezekiel 27:29

27:29 They will descend from their ships – all who handle the oar,

the sailors and all the sea captains – they will stand on the land.

Ezekiel 28:14

28:14 I placed you there with an anointed ¹⁰  guardian ¹¹  cherub; ¹² 

you were on the holy mountain of God;

you walked about amidst fiery stones.

Ezekiel 38:15

38:15 and come from your place, from the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a vast army.

Ezekiel 40:31

40:31 Its porches faced the outer court, and decorative palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.

Ezekiel 42:4

42:4 In front of the chambers was a walkway on the inner side, 17½ feet ¹³  wide at a distance of 1¾ feet, ¹⁴  and their entrances were on the north.

Ezekiel 43:24

43:24 You will present them before the Lord, and the priests will scatter salt on them ¹⁵  and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:27

44:27 On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 46:6

46:6 On the day of the new moon he will offer ¹⁶  an unblemished young bull, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.

Ezekiel 48:32

48:32 On the east side, one and one-half miles in length, there will be three gates: one gate for Joseph, one gate for Benjamin, and one gate for Dan.

Ezekiel 48:34

48:34 On the west side, one and one-half miles in length, there will be three gates: one gate for Gad, one gate for Asher, and one gate for Naphtali.

[1:15]  ¹ tc The MT adds “at the living beings” which is absent from the LXX.

[1:15]  ² sn Another vision which includes wheels on thrones occurs in Dan 7:9. Ezek 10 contains a vision similar to this one.

[1:15]  ³ tn The Hebrew word may be translated either “earth” or “ground” in this context.

[1:23]  ⁴ tc Heb “each had two wings covering and each had two wings covering,” a case of dittography. On the analogy of v. 11 and the support of the LXX, which reads the same for v. 11 and this verse, one should perhaps read “each had two wings touching another being and each had two wings covering.”

[3:24]  ⁷ tn See the note on “wind” in 2:2.

[3:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “he.”

[16:16]  ¹⁰ tc The text as written in the MT is incomprehensible (“not coming [plural] and he will not”). Driver has suggested a copying error of similar-sounding words, specifically לֹא (lo’) for לוֹ (lo). The feminine participle בָאוֹת (va’ot) has also been read as the feminine perfect בָאת (va’t). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:228, n. 15.b, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:486, n. 137.

[18:2]  ¹³ tn This word only occurs here and in the parallel passage in Jer 31:29-30 in the Qal stem and in Eccl 10:10 in the Piel stem. In the latter passage it refers to the bluntness of an ax that has not been sharpened. Here the idea is of the “bluntness” of the teeth, not from having ground them down due to the bitter taste of sour grapes but to the fact that they have lost their “edge,” “bite,” or “sharpness” because they are numb from the sour taste. For this meaning for the word, see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 2:197.

[23:45]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and upright men will judge them (with) the judgment of adulteresses and the judgment of those who shed blood.”

[28:14]  ¹⁹ tn Or “winged”; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.

[28:14]  ²⁰ tn The meaning of this phrase in Hebrew is uncertain. The word translated here “guards” occurs in Exod 25:20 in reference to the cherubim “covering” the ark.

[28:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “you (were) an anointed cherub that covers and I placed you.” In the Hebrew text the ruler of Tyre is equated with a cherub, and the verb “I placed you” is taken with what follows (“on the holy mountain of God”). However, this reading is problematic. The pronoun “you” at the beginning of verse 14 is feminine singular in the Hebrew text; elsewhere in this passage the ruler of Tyre is addressed with masculine singular forms. It is possible that the pronoun is a rare (see Deut 5:24; Num 11:15) or defectively written (see 1 Sam 24:19; Neh 9:6; Job 1:10; Ps 6:3; Eccl 7:22) masculine form, but it is more likely that the form should be repointed as the preposition “with” (see the LXX). In this case the ruler of Tyre is compared to the first man, not to a cherub. If this emendation is accepted, then the verb “I placed you” belongs with what precedes and concludes the first sentence in the verse. It is noteworthy that the verbs in the second and third lines of the verse also appear at the end of the sentence in the Hebrew text. The presence of a conjunction at the beginning of “I placed you” is problematic for the proposal, but it may reflect a later misunderstanding of the syntax of the verse. For a defense of the proposed emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.

[42:4]  ²² tn Heb “ten cubits” (i.e., 5.25 meters).

[42:4]  ²³ tc Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm). The LXX and the Syriac read “one hundred cubits” (= 175 feet).

[43:24]  ²⁵ sn It is likely that salt was used with sacrificial meals (Num 18:19; 2 Chr 13:5).

[46:6]  ²⁸ tn The phrase “he will offer” is not in the Hebrew text but is warranted from the context.