Ezekiel 2:1

Ezekiel’s Commission

2:1 He said to me, “Son of man, ¹  stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”

Ezekiel 2:9

2:9 Then I looked and realized a hand was stretched out to me, and in it was a written scroll.

Ezekiel 3:4

3:4 He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

Ezekiel 3:16

3:16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: ² 

Ezekiel 8:8-9

8:8 He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

8:9 He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”

Ezekiel 8:13

8:13 He said to me, “You will see them practicing even greater abominations!”

Ezekiel 8:15

8:15 He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!”

Ezekiel 24:1

The Boiling Pot

24:1 The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month ³ :

Ezekiel 24:19

24:19 Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”

Ezekiel 26:1

A Prophecy Against Tyre

26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, ⁴  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 29:1

A Prophecy Against Egypt

29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, ⁵  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 29:17

29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ⁶  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 30:20

30:20 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, ⁷  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 31:1

A Cedar in Lebanon

31:1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, ⁸  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 32:17

32:17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, ⁹  the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 37:3

37:3 He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said to him, “Sovereign Lord, you know.”

Ezekiel 40:45

40:45 He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple, ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 47:6

47:6 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?”

Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

[2:1]  ¹ sn The phrase son of man occurs ninety-three times in the book of Ezekiel. It simply means “human one,” and distinguishes the prophet from the nonhuman beings that are present in the world of his vision.

[3:16]  ² sn This phrase occurs about fifty times in the book of Ezekiel.

[24:1]  ³ tn The date of this oracle was January 15, 588 b.c.

[26:1]  ⁴ tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.

[29:1]  ⁵ tn January 7, 587 b.c.

[29:17]  ⁶ sn April 26, 571 b.c.

[30:20]  ⁷ tn April 29, 587 b.c.

[31:1]  ⁸ sn June 21, 587 b.c.

[32:17]  ⁹ tn March 17, 585 b.c. The LXX adds “first month.”

[40:45]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the house.”