Ezekiel 43:6
Context43:6 I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.
Ezekiel 2:1
Context2:1 He said to me, “Son of man, 1 stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”
Ezekiel 3:23
Context3:23 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
Context40:3 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
Context8:11 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
Context21:21 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.
[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] 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).