Ezekiel 3:2

3:2 So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

Ezekiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me ¹  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord ²  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived ³  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 46:1

The Prince’s Offerings

46:1 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east ⁵  will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

Ezekiel 1:1

A Vision of God’s Glory

1:1 In the thirtieth year, ⁶  on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles ⁷  at the Kebar River, ⁸  the heavens opened ⁹  and I saw a divine vision. ¹⁰ 

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 24:27

24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; ¹¹  you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 37:13

37:13 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

Ezekiel 41:11

41:11 There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet ¹²  all around.

Ezekiel 46:12

46:12 When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a voluntary offering to the Lord, the gate facing east will be opened for him, and he will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he did on the Sabbath. Then he will go out, and the gate will be closed after he goes out. ¹³ 

Ezekiel 42:2

42:2 Its length was 175 feet ¹⁴  on the north side, ¹⁵  and its width 87½ feet. ¹⁶ 

Ezekiel 16:25

16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ¹⁷  your beauty when you spread ¹⁸  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

Ezekiel 40:25

40:25 There were windows all around it and its porches, like the windows of the others; ¹⁹  87½ feet ²⁰  long and 43¾ feet ²¹  wide.

Ezekiel 26:2

26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre ²²  has said about Jerusalem, ²³  ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, ²⁴  now that she ²⁵  has been destroyed,’

[33:22]  ¹ tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

[33:22]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:22]  ³ tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

[33:22]  ⁴ sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

[46:1]  ¹ sn The east gate of the outer court was permanently closed (Ezek 44:2).

[1:1]  ¹ sn The meaning of the thirtieth year is problematic. Some take it to mean the age of Ezekiel when he prophesied (e.g., Origen). The Aramaic Targum explains the thirtieth year as the thirtieth year dated from the recovery of the book of the Torah in the temple in Jerusalem (2 Kgs 22:3-9). The number seems somehow to be equated with the fifth year of Jehoiachin’s exile in 1:2, i.e., 593 b.c.

[1:1]  ² sn The Assyrians started the tactic of deportation, the large-scale forced displacement of conquered populations, in order to stifle rebellions. The task of uniting groups of deportees, gaining freedom from one’s overlords and returning to retake one’s own country would be considerably more complicated than living in one’s homeland and waiting for an opportune moment to drive out the enemy’s soldiers. The Babylonians adopted this practice also, after defeating the Assyrians. The Babylonians deported Judeans on three occasions. The practice of deportation was reversed by the Persian conquerors of Babylon, who gained favor from their subjects for allowing them to return to their homeland and, as polytheists, sought the favor of the gods of the various countries which had come under their control.

[1:1]  ³ sn The Kebar River is mentioned in Babylonian texts from the city of Nippur in the fifth century b.c. It provided artificial irrigation from the Euphrates.

[1:1]  ⁴ sn For the concept of the heavens opened in later literature, see 3 Macc 6:18; 2 Bar. 22:1; T. Levi 5:1; Matt 3:16; Acts 7:56; Rev 19:11.

[1:1]  ⁵ tn Or “saw visions from God.” References to divine visions occur also in Ezek 8:3; 40:2

[24:27]  ¹ tn Heb “your mouth will open.”

[41:11]  ¹ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

[46:12]  ¹ tn Heb “he shall shut the gate after he goes out.”

[42:2]  ¹ tn Heb “one hundred cubits” (i.e., 52.5 meters).

[42:2]  ² tn Heb “the door of the north.”

[42:2]  ³ tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[16:25]  ¹ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

[16:25]  ² tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.

[40:25]  ¹ tn Heb “as these windows.”

[40:25]  ² tn Heb “fifty cubits” (i.e., 26.25 meters).

[40:25]  ³ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[26:2]  ¹ sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.

[26:2]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[26:2]  ³ tn Heb “I will be filled.”

[26:2]  ⁴ sn That is, Jerusalem.