Ezekiel 16:13

16:13 You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. You ate the finest flour, honey, and olive oil. You became extremely beautiful and attained the position of royalty.

Ezekiel 23:29

23:29 They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, ¹  and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct. ² 

Ezekiel 39:15

39:15 When the scouts survey ³  the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it ⁴  in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

Ezekiel 40:46

40:46 and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”

Ezekiel 43:19

43:19 you will give a young bull for a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are descended from Zadok, who approach me to minister to me, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 44:11-13

44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them. 44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle ⁵  to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow ⁶  concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible ⁷  for their sin. 44:13 They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed.

Ezekiel 44:17

44:17 “‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple.

Ezekiel 45:4-5

45:4 It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. ⁸  45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles ⁹  in length and three and one-third miles ¹⁰  in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities ¹¹  in which they will live.

[23:29]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term means “labor,” but by extension it can also refer to that for which one works.

[23:29]  ² tn Heb “The nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, and your obscene conduct and your harlotry.”

[39:15]  ¹ tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”

[39:15]  ² tn That is, the aforementioned bone.

[44:12]  ¹ tn Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30).

[44:12]  ² tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[44:12]  ³ tn Heb “will bear.”

[45:4]  ¹ tc The LXX apparently understood “open land” instead of “sanctuary.”

[45:5]  ¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[45:5]  ² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:5]  ³ tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.