Ezekiel 24:13

24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. ¹ 

I tried to cleanse you, ²  but you are not clean.

You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness ³ 

until I have exhausted my anger on you.

Ezekiel 36:25

36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water ⁴  and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Ezekiel 39:16

39:16 (A city by the name of Hamonah ⁵  will also be there.) They will cleanse the land.’

Ezekiel 39:12

39:12 For seven months Israel ⁶  will bury them, in order to cleanse the land.

Ezekiel 43:26

43:26 For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 22:24

22:24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that receives no rain ⁸  or showers in the day of my anger.’ ⁹ 

Ezekiel 36:33

36:33 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.

Ezekiel 39:14

39:14 They will designate men to scout continually ¹⁰  through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, ¹¹  in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months.

Ezekiel 37:23

37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness ¹²  by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

[24:13]  ¹ tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”

[24:13]  ² tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.

[24:13]  ³ tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”

[36:25]  ⁴ sn The Lord here uses a metaphor from the realm of ritual purification. For the use of water in ritual cleansing, see Exod 30:19-20; Lev 14:51; Num 19:18; Heb 10:22.

[39:16]  ⁷ tn This name appears to be a feminine form of the word “horde,” used in the name Hamon-Gog.

[39:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the house of Israel.”

[43:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “fill its hands.”

[22:24]  ¹⁶ tc The MT reads “that is not cleansed”; the LXX reads “that is not drenched,” which assumes a different vowel pointing as well as the loss of a מ (mem) due to haplography. In light of the following reference to showers, the reading of the LXX certainly fits the context well. For a defense of the emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:32. Yet the MT is not an unreasonable reading since uncleanness in the land also fits the context, and a poetic connection between rain and the land being uncleansed may be feasible since washing with water is elsewhere associated with cleansing (Num 8:7; 31:23; Ps 51:7).

[22:24]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in a day of anger.”

[39:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “men of perpetuity.”

[39:14]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and bury the travelers and those who remain on the surface of the ground.” The reference to “travelers” seems odd and is omitted in the LXX. It is probably an accidental duplication (see v. 11).

[37:23]  ²² tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.