Ezekiel 2:2

2:2 As he spoke to me, ¹  a wind ²  came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.

Ezekiel 10:15

10:15 The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings ³  I saw at the Kebar River.

Ezekiel 15:3

15:3 Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

Ezekiel 16:44

16:44 “‘Observe – everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

Ezekiel 18:10

18:10 “Suppose such a man has ⁴  a violent son who sheds blood and does any of these things ⁵  mentioned previously

Ezekiel 18:22

18:22 None of the sins he has committed will be held ⁶  against him; because of the righteousness he has done, he will live.

Ezekiel 18:32

18:32 For I take no delight in the death of anyone, ⁷  declares the sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

Ezekiel 20:11

20:11 I gave them my statutes ⁸  and revealed my regulations to them. The one ⁹  who carries ¹⁰  them out will live by them! ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 21:16

21:16 Cut sharply on the right!

Swing to ¹²  the left,

wherever your edge ¹³  is appointed to strike.

Ezekiel 29:11

29:11 No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

Ezekiel 40:15

40:15 From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 40:20

40:20 He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.

Ezekiel 41:18

41:18 It was made with cherubim and decorative palm trees, with a palm tree between each cherub. Each cherub had two faces:

Ezekiel 43:15

43:15 and the altar hearth, 7 feet, and from the altar hearth four horns projecting upward.

Ezekiel 44:1

The Closed Gate

44:1 Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.

Ezekiel 46:9

46:9 “‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate; whoever enters by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate. No one will return by way of the gate they entered but will go out straight ahead.

[2:2]  ¹ tc The phrase “as he spoke to me” is absent from the LXX.

[2:2]  ² tn Or “spirit.” NIV has “the Spirit,” but the absence of the article in the Hebrew text makes this unlikely. Elsewhere in Ezekiel the Lord’s Spirit is referred to as “the Spirit of the Lord” (11:5; 37:1), “the Spirit of God” (11:24), or “my (that is, the Lord’s) Spirit” (36:27; 37:14; 39:29). Some identify the “spirit” of 2:2 as the spirit that energized the living beings, however, that “spirit” is called “the spirit” (1:12, 20) or “the spirit of the living beings” (1:20-21; 10:17). Still others see the term as referring to an impersonal “spirit” of strength or courage, that is, the term may also be understood as a disposition or attitude. The Hebrew word often refers to a wind in Ezekiel (1:4; 5:10, 12; 12:4; 13:11, 13; 17:10, 21; 19:12; 27:26; 37:9). In 37:5-10 a “breath” originates in the “four winds” and is associated with the Lord’s life-giving breath (see v. 14). This breath enters into the dry bones and gives them life. In a similar fashion the breath of 2:2 (see also 3:24) energizes paralyzed Ezekiel. Breath and wind are related. On the one hand it is a more normal picture to think of breath rather than wind entering someone, but since wind represents an external force it seems more likely for wind rather than breath to stand someone up (unless we should understand it as a disposition). It may be that one should envision the breath of the speaker moving like a wind to revive Ezekiel, helping him to regain his breath and invigorating him to stand. A wind also transports the prophet from one place to another (3:12, 14; 8:3; 11:1, 24; 43:5).

[10:15]  ³ tn Heb “it was the living creature.”

[18:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “begets.”

[18:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he does, a brother, from one of these.” If “brother” is retained, it may be an adverbial accusative, “against a brother” (i.e., fellow Israelite). But the form is likely dittographic (note the אח [aleph-heth] combination in the following form).

[18:22]  ⁷ tn Heb “remembered.”

[18:32]  ⁹ tn Heb “the death of the one dying.”

[20:11]  ¹¹ sn The laws were given at Mount Sinai.

[20:11]  ¹² tn Heb “the man.”

[20:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “does.”

[20:11]  ¹⁴ tn The wording and the concept is contained in Lev 18:5 and Deut 30:15-19.

[21:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “Put to.”

[21:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “face.”

[40:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).