Discovery BoxEzekiel 34:15
Context34:15 I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 34:24
Context34:24 I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince 1 among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!
Ezekiel 1:1
Context1:1 In the thirtieth year, 2 on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles 3 at the Kebar River, 4 the heavens opened 5 and I saw a divine vision. 6
Ezekiel 4:5
Context4:5 I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days 7 for you – 390 days. 8 So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 9
Ezekiel 11:20
Context11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. 10
Ezekiel 13:7
Context13:7 Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say, “the Lord declares,” although I myself never spoke?
Ezekiel 13:22
Context13:22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.
Ezekiel 29:9
Context29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”
Ezekiel 14:11
Context14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, 11 declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 20:31
Context20:31 When you present your sacrifices 12 – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, 13 O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! 14
Ezekiel 29:3
Context29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against 15 you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster 16 lying in the midst of its waterways,
who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” 17
Ezekiel 37:23
Context37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness 18 by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.
[34:24] 1 sn The messianic king (“David”) is called both “king” and “prince” in 37:24-25. The use of the term “prince” for this king facilitates the contrast between this ideal ruler and the Davidic “princes” denounced in earlier prophecies (see 7:27; 12:10, 12; 19:1; 21:25; 22:6, 25).
[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
[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
[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
[4:5] 1 tn Heb “I have assigned for you that the years of their iniquity be the number of days.” Num 14:33-34 is an example of the reverse, where the days were converted into years, the number of days spying out the land becoming the number of years of the wilderness wanderings.
[4:5] 2 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
[4:5] 3 tn Or “When you have carried the iniquity of the house of Israel,” and continuing on to the next verse.
[11:20] 1 sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).
[14:11] 1 sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4.
[20:31] 2 tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”
[20:31] 3 tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”
[29:3] 1 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
[29:3] 2 tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew
[29:3] 3 sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.
[37:23] 1 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.
