Ezekiel 3:15

3:15 I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, ¹  who lived by the Kebar River. ²  I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days. ³ 

Ezekiel 8:11

8:11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel ⁴  (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant ⁵  vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

Ezekiel 9:2

9:2 Next, I noticed ⁶  six men ⁷  coming from the direction of the upper gate ⁸  which faces north, each with his war club in his hand. Among them was a man dressed in linen with a writing kit ⁹  at his side. They came and stood beside the bronze altar.

Ezekiel 11:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

11:1 A wind ¹⁰  lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people. ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 12:12

12:12 “The prince ¹²  who is among them will raise his belongings ¹³  onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He ¹⁴  will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

Ezekiel 22:26

22:26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, ¹⁵  or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore ¹⁶  my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.

Ezekiel 36:23

36:23 I will magnify ¹⁷  my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.

[3:15]  ¹ sn The name “Tel Abib” is a transliteration of an Akkadian term meaning “mound of the flood,” i.e., an ancient mound. It is not to be confused with the modern city of Tel Aviv in Israel.

[3:15]  ² tn Or “canal.”

[3:15]  ³ sn A similar response to a divine encounter is found in Acts 9:8-9.

[8:11]  ⁴ sn Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).

[8:11]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[9:2]  ⁷ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[9:2]  ⁸ sn The six men plus the scribe would equal seven, which was believed by the Babylonians to be the number of planetary deities.

[9:2]  ⁹ sn The upper gate was built by Jotham (2 Kgs 15:35).

[9:2]  ¹⁰ tn Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in Ezek 9 and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.

[11:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[11:1]  ¹¹ sn The phrase officials of the people occurs in Neh 11:1; 1 Chr 21:2; 2 Chr 24:23.

[12:12]  ¹³ sn The prince is a reference to Zedekiah.

[12:12]  ¹⁴ tn The words “his belongings” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.

[12:12]  ¹⁵ tc The MT reads “they”; the LXX and Syriac read “he.”

[22:26]  ¹⁶ tn Or “between the consecrated and the common.”

[22:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “hide their eyes from.” The idiom means to disregard or ignore something or someone (see Lev 20:4; 1 Sam 12:3; Prov 28:27; Isa 1:15).

[36:23]  ¹⁹ tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”