Ezekiel 2:3

2:3 He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the house ¹  of Israel, to rebellious nations ²  who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted ³  against me to this very day.

Ezekiel 3:3

3:3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, ⁴  and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

Ezekiel 3:7

3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, ⁵  because they are not willing to listen to me, ⁶  for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 8:5-6

8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward ⁸  the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.

8:6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people ⁹  of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!”

Ezekiel 8:12

8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? ¹⁰  For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’”

Ezekiel 8:17

8:17 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 9:9

9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, ¹²  for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ ¹³ 

Ezekiel 20:8

20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, ¹⁴  nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out ¹⁵  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:39

20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, ¹⁶  if you will not listen to me. ¹⁷  But my holy name will not be profaned ¹⁸  again by your sacrifices ¹⁹  and your idols.

Ezekiel 37:9

37:9 He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, ²⁰  – prophesy, son of man – and say to the breath: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.’”

Ezekiel 40:4

40:4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention ²¹  to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. ²²  Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

Ezekiel 41:22

41:22 The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet ²³  high, with its length 3½ feet; ²⁴  its corners, its length, ²⁵  and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”

Ezekiel 43:18

43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, ²⁶ 

Ezekiel 44:2

44:2 The Lord said to me: “This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.

Ezekiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ²⁷  watch closely and listen carefully to ²⁸  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ²⁹  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ³⁰  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 46:20

46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”

[2:3]  ¹ tc The Hebrew reads “sons of,” while the LXX reads “house,” implying the more common phrase in Ezekiel. Either could be abbreviated with the first letter ב (bet). In preparation for the characterization “house of rebellion,” in vv. 5, 6, and 8, “house” is preferred (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:10 and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel [Hermeneia], 2:564-65).

[2:3]  ² tc Heb “to the rebellious nations.” The phrase “to the rebellious nations” is omitted in the LXX. Elsewhere in Ezekiel the singular word “nation” is used for Israel (36:13-15; 37:22). Here “nations” may have the meaning of “tribes” or refer to the two nations of Israel and Judah.

[2:3]  ³ tc This word is omitted from the LXX.

[3:3]  ⁴ tc Heb “I ate,” a first common singular preterite plus paragogic he (ה). The ancient versions read “I ate it,” which is certainly the meaning in the context, and indicates they read the he as a third feminine singular pronominal suffix. The Masoretes typically wrote a mappiq in the he for the pronominal suffix but apparently missed this one.

[3:7]  ⁷ sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.

[3:7]  ⁸ sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.

[3:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”

[8:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”

[8:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “house.”

[8:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:17]  ¹⁹ tn It is not clear what the practice of “holding a branch to the nose” indicates. A possible parallel is the Syrian relief of a king holding a flower to his nose as he worships the stars (ANEP 281). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:145-46. The LXX glosses the expression as “Behold, they are like mockers.”

[9:9]  ²² tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”

[9:9]  ²³ sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.

[20:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”

[20:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

[20:39]  ²⁸ sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.

[20:39]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.

[20:39]  ³⁰ sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.

[20:39]  ³¹ tn Or “gifts.”

[37:9]  ³¹ tn Or “spirit,” and several times in this verse.

[40:4]  ³⁴ tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”

[40:4]  ³⁵ tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”

[41:22]  ³⁷ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

[41:22]  ³⁸ tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).

[41:22]  ³⁹ tc So the Masoretic text. The LXX reads “base.”

[43:18]  ⁴⁰ sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.

[44:5]  ⁴³ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

[44:5]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

[44:5]  ⁴⁵ tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.

[44:15]  ⁴⁶ sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).