Ezekiel 45:5

45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles ¹  in length and three and one-third miles ²  in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities ³  in which they will live.

Ezekiel 45:12

45:12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels ⁴  will be a mina for you.

Ezekiel 8:16

8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there ⁵  at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, ⁶  were about twenty-five ⁷  men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, ⁸  facing east – they were worshiping the sun ⁹  toward the east!

Ezekiel 11:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

11:1 A wind ¹⁰  lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people. ¹¹ 

[45:5]  ¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[45:5]  ² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[45:5]  ³ tc The translation follows the LXX here. The MT reads “twenty.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:246.

[45:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”

[8:16]  ⁷ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.

[8:16]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ sn The temple faced east.

[8:16]  ¹¹ tn Or “the sun god.”

[11:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[11:1]  ¹¹ sn The phrase officials of the people occurs in Neh 11:1; 1 Chr 21:2; 2 Chr 24:23.