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 5:15

5:15 You will be ⁵  an object of scorn and taunting, ⁶  a prime example of destruction ⁷  among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. ⁸  I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 17:16

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ⁹  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Ezekiel 21:12

21:12 Cry out and moan, son of man,

for it is wielded against my people;

against all the princes of Israel.

They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people.

Therefore, strike your thigh. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 23:22

23:22 “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, ¹¹  I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side:

Ezekiel 25:14

25:14 I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience ¹²  my vengeance, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 37:25

37:25 They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

Ezekiel 40:44

40:44 On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one ¹³  at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south ¹⁴  gate facing north.

Ezekiel 42:6

42:6 For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers ¹⁵  were set back from the ground more than the lower and upper ones.

Ezekiel 47:3

47:3 When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, ¹⁶  and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.

[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.”

[5:15]  ⁵ tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew mss read “it will be,” but if the final he (ה) is read as a mater lectionis, as it can be with the second masculine singular perfect, then they are in agreement. In either case the subject refers to Jerusalem.

[5:15]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).

[5:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).

[5:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.

[17:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “place.”

[21:12]  ¹³ sn This physical action was part of an expression of grief. Cp. Jer. 31:19.

[23:22]  ¹⁷ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[25:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “know.”

[40:44]  ²⁵ tn “One” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied for clarity in the translation.

[40:44]  ²⁶ tc This reading is supported by the LXX; the MT reads “east.”

[42:6]  ²⁹ tn The phrase “upper chambers” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied from the context.

[47:3]  ³³ tn Heb “one thousand cubits” (i.e., 525 meters); this phrase occurs three times in the next two verses.