Ezekiel 1:3

1:3 the word of the Lord came to the priest Ezekiel ¹  the son of Buzi, ²  at the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. ³  The hand ⁴  of the Lord came on him there).

Ezekiel 3:22

Isolated and Silenced

3:22 The hand ⁵  of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, ⁶  and I will speak with you there.”

Ezekiel 37:1

The Valley of Dry Bones

37:1 The hand ⁷  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed ⁸  me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

Ezekiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ⁹  was struck down, on this very day, ¹⁰  the hand ¹¹  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ¹² 

[1:3]  ¹ sn The prophet’s name, Ezekiel, means in Hebrew “May God strengthen.”

[1:3]  ² tn Or “to Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest.”

[1:3]  ³ tn Heb “Chaldeans.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon, “Chaldeans” is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon. The Babylonians worked with the Medes to destroy the Assyrian Empire near the end of the 7th century b.c. Then, over the next century, the Babylonians dominated the West Semitic states (such as Phoenicia, Aram, Moab, Edom, and Judah in the modern countries of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel) and made incursions into Egypt.

[1:3]  ⁴ tn Or “power.”

[3:22]  ⁵ tn Or “power.”

[3:22]  ⁶ sn Ezekiel had another vision at this location, recounted in Ezek 37.

[37:1]  ⁷ tn Or “power.”

[37:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “caused me to rest.”

[40:1]  ⁹ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ¹⁰ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ¹¹ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  ¹² sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).