Discovery BoxEzekiel 46:4-12
Context46:4 The burnt offering which the prince will offer to the Lord on the Sabbath day will be six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram. 46:5 The grain offering will be an ephah with the ram, and the grain offering with the lambs will be as much as he is able to give, 1 and a gallon 2 of olive oil with an ephah. 46:6 On the day of the new moon he will offer 3 an unblemished young bull, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish. 46:7 He will provide a grain offering: an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he wishes, 4 and a gallon 5 of olive oil with each ephah of grain. 6 46:8 When the prince enters, he will come by way of the porch of the gate and will go out the same way.
46:9 “‘When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by way of the north gate to worship will go out by way of the south gate; whoever enters by way of the south gate will go out by way of the north gate. No one will return by way of the gate they entered but will go out straight ahead. 46:10 When they come in, the prince will come in with them, and when they go out, he will go out.
46:11 “‘At the festivals and at the appointed feasts the grain offering will be an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able, 7 and a gallon 8 of olive oil with each ephah of grain. 9 46:12 When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a voluntary offering to the Lord, the gate facing east will be opened for him, and he will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he did on the Sabbath. Then he will go out, and the gate will be closed after he goes out. 10
Ezekiel 46:2
Context46:2 The prince will enter by way of the porch of the gate from the outside, and will stand by the doorpost of the gate. The priests will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out. But the gate will not be closed until evening.
Ezekiel 6:1
Context6:1 The word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 6:1
Context6:1 The word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 8:1
Context8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, 11 as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand 12 of the sovereign Lord seized me. 13
Ezekiel 8:1
Context8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, 14 as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand 15 of the sovereign Lord seized me. 16
Ezekiel 8:1
Context8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, 17 as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand 18 of the sovereign Lord seized me. 19
Ezekiel 16:2-3
Context16:2 “Son of man, confront Jerusalem 20 with her abominable practices 16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 29:3-9
Context29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against 21 you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster 22 lying in the midst of its waterways,
who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” 23
29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws
and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales.
I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways,
and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.
29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your waterways;
you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. 24
I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.
29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord
because they were a reed staff 25 for the house of Israel;
29:7 when they grasped you with their hand, 26 you broke and tore 27 their shoulders,
and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady. 28
29:8 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill 29 every person and every animal. 29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”
Ezekiel 29:2
Context29:2 “Son of man, turn toward 30 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.
Ezekiel 5:6
Context5:6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations 31 and the countries around her. 32 Indeed, they 33 have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.
Ezekiel 7:4-5
Context7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 34 you. 35 For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, 36 and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. 37 Then you will know that I am the Lord!
7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster 38 – a one-of-a-kind 39 disaster – is coming!
Ezekiel 7:2
Context7:2 “You, son of man – this is what the sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel: An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land! 40
Ezekiel 8:12-13
Context8:12 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? 41 For they think, ‘The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!’” 8:13 He said to me, “You will see them practicing even greater abominations!”
Ezekiel 30:24
Context30:24 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon. 42
Ezekiel 31:3
Context31:3 Consider Assyria, 43 a cedar in Lebanon, 44
with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,
and extremely tall;
its top reached into the clouds.
Ezekiel 35:7-8
Context35:7 I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; 45 I will cut off 46 from it the one who passes through or returns. 35:8 I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.
Ezra 1:5
Context1:5 Then the leaders 47 of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and the Levites – all those whose mind God had stirred – got ready 48 to go up in order to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem. 49
Ezra 6:8-9
Context6:8 “I also hereby issue orders as to what you are to do with those elders of the Jews in order to rebuild this temple of God. From the royal treasury, from the taxes of Trans-Euphrates the complete costs are to be given to these men, so that there may be no interruption of the work. 50 6:9 Whatever is needed – whether oxen or rams or lambs or burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by 51 the priests who are in Jerusalem – must be given to them daily without any neglect,
Psalms 68:18
Contextyou have taken many captives. 53
You receive tribute 54 from 55 men,
including even sinful rebels.
Indeed the Lord God lives there! 56
John 1:16
Context1:16 For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another. 57
Romans 11:35-36
Context11:35 Or who has first given to God, 58
that God 59 needs to repay him? 60
11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.
Ephesians 5:2
Context5:2 and live 61 in love, just as Christ also loved us 62 and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering 63 to God.
[46:5] 1 tn Or “as much as he wishes.” Heb “a gift of his hand.”
[46:5] 2 tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.
[46:6] 3 tn The phrase “he will offer” is not in the Hebrew text but is warranted from the context.
[46:7] 4 tn Heb “with the lambs as his hand can reach.”
[46:7] 5 tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.
[46:7] 6 tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.
[46:11] 7 tn Or “as much as he wishes.” Heb “a gift of his hand.”
[46:11] 8 tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.
[46:11] 9 tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.
[46:12] 10 tn Heb “he shall shut the gate after he goes out.”
[8:1] 11 tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”
[8:1] 13 tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.
[8:1] 14 tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”
[8:1] 16 tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.
[8:1] 17 tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”
[8:1] 19 tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.
[16:2] 20 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[29:3] 21 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
[29:3] 22 tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew
[29:3] 23 sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.
[29:5] 24 tc Some Hebrew
[29:6] 25 sn Compare Isa 36:6.
[29:7] 26 tn The Hebrew consonantal text (Kethib) has “by your hand,” but the marginal reading (Qere) has simply “by the hand.” The LXX reads “with their hand.”
[29:7] 27 tn Or perhaps “dislocated.”
[29:7] 28 tn Heb “you caused to stand for them all their hips.” An emendation which switches two letters but is supported by the LXX yields the reading “you caused all their hips to shake.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:103. In 2 Kgs 18:21 and Isa 36:6 trusting in the Pharaoh is compared to leaning on a staff. The oracle may reflect Hophra’s attempt to aid Jerusalem (Jer 37:5-8).
[29:8] 29 tn Heb “I will cut off from you.”
[29:2] 30 tn Heb “set your face against.”
[5:6] 31 sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3; Jonah 1:2.
[5:6] 32 tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”
[5:6] 33 sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.
[7:4] 34 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
[7:4] 35 tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.
[7:4] 36 tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”
[7:4] 37 tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”
[7:5] 38 tn The Hebrew term often refers to moral evil (see Ezek 6:10; 14:22), but in many contexts it refers to calamity or disaster, sometimes as punishment for evil behavior.
[7:5] 39 tc So most Hebrew
[7:2] 40 tn Or “earth.” Elsewhere the expression “four corners of the earth” figuratively refers to the whole earth (Isa 11:12).
[8:12] 41 tn Heb “the room of his images.” The adjective “idolatrous” has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
[30:24] 42 tn Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[31:3] 43 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] 44 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).
[35:7] 45 tc The translation reads with some manuscripts לְשִׁמְמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה (lÿshimmah umÿshammah, “desolate ruin”) as in verse 3 and often in Ezekiel. The majority reading reverses the first mem (מ) with the shin (שׁ) resulting in the repetition of the word desolate: לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה (lÿshimmah ushÿmamah).
[1:5] 47 tn Heb “the heads of the fathers.”
[1:5] 49 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[6:8] 50 tn The words “of the work” are not in the Aramaic, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
[6:9] 51 tn Aram “according to the word of.”
[68:18] 52 tn Heb “to the elevated place”; or “on high.” This probably refers to the Lord’s throne on Mount Zion.
[68:18] 53 tn Heb “you have taken captives captive.”
[68:18] 56 tn Heb “so that the
[1:16] 57 tn Grk “for from his fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace.” The meaning of the phrase χάριν ἀντὶ χάριτος (carin anti carito") could be: (1) love (grace) under the New Covenant in place of love (grace) under the Sinai Covenant, thus replacement; (2) grace “on top of” grace, thus accumulation; (3) grace corresponding to grace, thus correspondence. The most commonly held view is (2) in one sense or another, and this is probably the best explanation. This sense is supported by a fairly well-known use in Philo, Posterity 43 (145). Morna D. Hooker suggested that Exod 33:13 provides the background for this expression: “Now therefore, I pray you, if I have found χάρις (LXX) in your sight, let me know your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find χάρις (LXX) in your sight.” Hooker proposed that it is this idea of favor given to one who has already received favor which lies behind 1:16, and this seems very probable as a good explanation of the meaning of the phrase (“The Johannine Prologue and the Messianic Secret,” NTS 21 [1974/75]: 53).
[11:35] 58 tn Grk “him”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[11:35] 59 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[11:35] 60 sn A quotation from Job 41:11.
[5:2] 61 tn Grk “walk.” The NT writers often used the verb “walk” (περιπατέω, peripatew) to refer to ethical conduct (cf. Rom 8:4; Gal 5:16; Col 4:5).
[5:2] 62 tc A number of important witnesses have ὑμᾶς (Jumas, “you”; e.g., א* A B P 0159 81 1175 al it co as well as several fathers). Other, equally important witnesses read ἡμᾶς (Jhmas, “us”; Ì46 א2 D F G Ψ 0278 33 1739 1881 al lat sy). It is possible that ἡμᾶς was accidentally introduced via homoioarcton with the previous word (ἠγάπησεν, hgaphsen). On the other hand, ὑμᾶς may have been motivated by the preceding ὑμῖν (Jumin) in 4:32 and second person verbs in 5:1, 2. Further, the flow of argument seems to require the first person pronoun. A decision is difficult to make, but the first person pronoun has a slightly greater probability of being original.
[5:2] 63 tn Grk “an offering and sacrifice to God as a smell of fragrance.” The first expression, προσφορὰν καὶ θυσίαν (prosforan kai qusian), is probably a hendiadys and has been translated such that “sacrificial” modifies “offering.” The second expression, εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας (ei" osmhn euwdia", “as a smell of fragrance”) has been translated as “a fragrant offering”; see BDAG 728-29 s.v. ὀσμή 2. Putting these two together in a clear fashion in English yields the translation: “a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.”
