Ezekiel 43:6

43:6 I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.

Ezekiel 2:1

Ezekiel’s Commission

2:1 He said to me, “Son of man, ¹  stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”

Ezekiel 3:23

3:23 So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, ²  and I threw myself face down.

Ezekiel 40:3

40:3 When he brought me there, I saw ³  a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring stick in his hand. He was standing in the gateway.

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 21:21

21:21 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork ⁶  in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: ⁷  He shakes arrows, he consults idols, ⁸  he examines ⁹  animal livers. ¹⁰ 

[2:1]  ¹ sn The phrase son of man occurs ninety-three times in the book of Ezekiel. It simply means “human one,” and distinguishes the prophet from the nonhuman beings that are present in the world of his vision.

[3:23]  ¹ tn Or “canal.”

[40:3]  ¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[8:11]  ¹ 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]  ² tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[21:21]  ¹ tn Heb “mother.”

[21:21]  ² sn Mesopotamian kings believed that the gods revealed the future through omens. They employed various divination techniques, some of which are included in the list that follows. A particularly popular technique was the examination and interpretation of the livers of animals. See R. R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel, 90-110.

[21:21]  ³ tn This word refers to personal idols that were apparently used for divination purposes (Gen 31:19; 1 Sam 19:13, 16).

[21:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “sees.”

[21:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “the liver.”