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 7:19

7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. ³  Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. ⁴  They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth ⁵  was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 16:5

16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; ⁷  you were thrown out into the open field ⁸  because you were detested on the day you were born.

Ezekiel 20:5-6

20:5 and say to them:

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore ⁹  to the descendants ¹⁰  of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore ¹¹  to them, “I am the Lord your God.” 20:6 On that day I swore ¹²  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ¹³  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ¹⁴  the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 24:25

24:25 “And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take ¹⁵  from them their stronghold – their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives, ¹⁶  as well as their sons and daughters: ¹⁷ 

Ezekiel 27:27

27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,

your ship’s carpenters, ¹⁸  your merchants,

and all your fighting men within you,

along with all your crew who are in you,

will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

Ezekiel 28:13

28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. ¹⁹ 

Every precious stone was your covering,

the ruby, topaz, and emerald,

the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,

the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; ²⁰ 

your settings and mounts were made of gold.

On the day you were created they were prepared.

Ezekiel 31:15

31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it ²¹  went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. ²²  I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

Ezekiel 39:11

39:11 “‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog. ²³ 

Ezekiel 43:18

43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, ²⁴ 

Ezekiel 43:27

43:27 When the prescribed period is over, ²⁵  on the eighth day and thereafter the priests will offer up on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; ²⁶  I will accept you, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel 46:12

46:12 When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a voluntary offering to the Lord, the gate facing east will be opened for him, and he will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he did on the Sabbath. Then he will go out, and the gate will be closed after he goes out. ²⁷ 

[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.

[7:19]  ³ tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.

[7:19]  ⁴ sn Compare Zeph 1:18.

[7:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).

[7:19]  ⁶ tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).

[16:5]  ⁵ sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10.

[16:5]  ⁶ sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10.

[20:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “seed.”

[20:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

[20:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

[20:6]  ¹¹ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

[24:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “(Will) it not (be) in the day I take?”

[24:25]  ¹² tn Heb “the uplifting of their soul.” According to BDB 672 s.v. מַשָּׂא 2, the term “uplifting” refers to “that to which they lift up their soul, their heart’s desire.” However, this text is the only one listed for this use. It seems more likely that the term has its well-attested nuance of “burden, load,” here and refers to that which weighs them down emotionally and is a constant source of concern or worry.

[24:25]  ¹³ tn In the Hebrew text there is no conjunction before “their sons and daughters.” For this reason one might assume that the preceding descriptive phrases refer to the sons and daughters, but verse 21 suggests otherwise. The descriptive phrases appear to refer to the “stronghold,” which parallels “my sanctuary” in verse 21. The children constitute a separate category.

[27:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “your repairers of damage.” See v. 9.

[28:13]  ¹⁵ sn The imagery of the lament appears to draw upon an extrabiblical Eden tradition about the expulsion of the first man (see v. 14 and the note there) from the garden due to his pride. The biblical Eden tradition speaks of cherubs placed as guardians at the garden entrance following the sin of Adam and Eve (Gen 3:24), but no guardian cherub like the one described in verse 14 is depicted or mentioned in the biblical account. Ezekiel’s imagery also appears to reflect Mesopotamian and Canaanite mythology at certain points. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:119-20.

[28:13]  ¹⁶ tn The exact identification of each gemstone is uncertain. The list should be compared to that of the priest in Exod 28:17-20, which lists twelve stones in rows of three. The LXX apparently imports the Exod 28 list. See reference to the types of stones in L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.

[31:15]  ¹⁷ tn Or “he.”

[31:15]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.

[39:11]  ¹⁹ tn The name means “horde of Gog.”

[43:18]  ²¹ sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.

[43:27]  ²³ tn Heb “and they will complete the days.”

[43:27]  ²⁴ sn The people also could partake of the food of the peace offering (Lev 3).

[46:12]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he shall shut the gate after he goes out.”