Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ³  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ⁴  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ⁵  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁶  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 8:16

8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there ⁷  at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, ⁸  were about twenty-five ⁹  men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, ¹⁰  facing east – they were worshiping the sun ¹¹  toward the east!

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, ¹²  or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore ¹³  my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.

Ezekiel 40:7

40:7 The alcoves were 10½ feet long and 10½ feet wide; between the alcoves were 8¾ feet. ¹⁴  The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.

[4:3]  ¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

[4:3]  ² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

[8:3]  ³ tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

[8:3]  ⁴ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ⁵ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:3]  ⁶ tn Or “image.”

[8:16]  ⁵ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.

[8:16]  ⁶ sn The priests prayed to God between the porch and the altar on fast days (Joel 2:17). This is the location where Zechariah was murdered (Matt 23:35).

[8:16]  ⁷ tc The LXX reads “twenty” instead of twenty-five, perhaps because of the association of the number twenty with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash.

[8:16]  ⁸ sn The temple faced east.

[8:16]  ⁹ tn Or “the sun god.”

[22:26]  ⁷ tn Or “between the consecrated and the common.”

[22:26]  ⁸ 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).

[40:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters) according to the “long” cubit. See the note on the first occurrence of the phrase “10½ feet” in v. 5.