Ezekiel 1:28

1:28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. ¹  This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw ²  it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

Ezekiel 4:9

4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, ³  put them in a single container, and make food ⁴  from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days ⁵  – you will eat it.

Ezekiel 5:12

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ⁶  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ⁷  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 46:11

46:11 “‘At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able, ⁸  and a gallon ⁹  of olive oil with each ephah of grain. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 46:14

46:14 And you ¹¹  will provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a gallon ¹²  of olive oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain offering to the Lord; this is a perpetual statute.

[1:28]  ¹ sn Reference to the glowing substance and the brilliant light and storm phenomena in vv. 27-28a echoes in reverse order the occurrence of these phenomena in v. 4.

[1:28]  ² tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.

[4:9]  ³ sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.

[4:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “bread.”

[4:9]  ⁵ tc The LXX reads “190 days.”

[5:12]  ⁵ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

[5:12]  ⁶ sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

[46:11]  ⁷ tn Or “as much as he wishes.” Heb “a gift of his hand.”

[46:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.

[46:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.

[46:14]  ⁹ tc Two medieval Hebrew mss, the LXX, the Syriac, and the Vulgate read the verb as third person singular.

[46:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.