Ezekiel 41:10

41:10 and the chambers of the court was 35 feet ¹  in width all around the temple on every side.

Ezekiel 44:23

44:23 Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean. ² 

Ezekiel 31:3

31:3 Consider Assyria, ³  a cedar in Lebanon, ⁴ 

with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,

and extremely tall;

its top reached into the clouds.

Ezekiel 34:20

34:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Ezekiel 47:16

47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath, as far as Hazer-hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran.

Ezekiel 48:22

48:22 The property of the Levites and of the city will be in the middle of that which belongs to the prince. The portion between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin will be for the prince.

Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ⁵  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 ⁶  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ⁷  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ⁸  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ⁹  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ¹⁰  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 ¹¹  at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, ¹²  were about twenty-five ¹³  men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, ¹⁴  facing east – they were worshiping the sun ¹⁵  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, ¹⁶  or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore ¹⁷  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. ¹⁸  The threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was 10½ feet.

[41:10]  ¹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

[44:23]  ² sn This task was a fundamental role of the priest (Lev 10:10).

[31:3]  ³ sn Either Egypt, or the Lord compares Egypt to Assyria, which is described in vv. 3-17 through the metaphor of a majestic tree. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:185. Like Egypt, Assyria had been a great world power, but in time God brought the Assyrians down. Egypt should learn from history the lesson that no nation, no matter how powerful, can withstand the judgment of God. Rather than following the text here, some prefer to emend the proper name Assyria to a similar sounding common noun meaning “boxwood” (see Ezek 27:6), which would make a fitting parallel to “cedar of Lebanon” in the following line. In this case vv. 3-18 in their entirety refer to Egypt, not Assyria. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:121-27.

[31:3]  ⁴ sn Lebanon was know for its cedar trees (Judg 9:15; 1 Kgs 4:33; 5:6; 2 Kgs 14:9; Ezra 3:7; Pss 29:5; 92:12; 104:16).

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

[4:3]  ⁵ tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

[8:3]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ tn Or “image.”

[8:16]  ⁶ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.

[8:16]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ sn The temple faced east.

[8:16]  ¹⁰ 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]  ⁸ 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.