Ezekiel 5:1

5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ¹  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ²  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ³  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ⁴  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ⁵  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁶  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 13:18

13:18 and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands ⁷  on all their wrists ⁸  and make headbands ⁹  for heads of every size to entrap people’s lives! ¹⁰  Will you entrap my people’s lives, yet preserve your own lives?

Ezekiel 16:43

16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, ¹¹  declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?

Ezekiel 17:22

17:22 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘I will take a sprig ¹²  from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it. ¹³ 

I will pluck from the top one of its tender twigs;

I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

Ezekiel 21:19

21:19 “You, son of man, mark out two routes for the king of Babylon’s sword to take; both of them will originate in a single land. Make a signpost and put it at the beginning of the road leading to the city.

Ezekiel 21:21

21:21 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork ¹⁴  in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: ¹⁵  He shakes arrows, he consults idols, ¹⁶  he examines ¹⁷  animal livers. ¹⁸ 

Ezekiel 23:42

23:42 The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her, ¹⁹  including all kinds of men; ²⁰  even Sabeans ²¹  were brought from the desert. The sisters ²²  put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

Ezekiel 29:18

29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar ²³  of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. ²⁴  Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.

Ezekiel 32:27

32:27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, ²⁵  who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, ²⁶  when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ²⁷  was struck down, on this very day, ²⁸  the hand ²⁹  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ³⁰ 

[5:1]  ¹ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[5:1]  ² tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”

[8:3]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Or “image.”

[13:18]  ⁵ sn The wristbands mentioned here probably represented magic bands or charms. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:413.

[13:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “joints of the hands.” This may include the elbow and shoulder joints.

[13:18]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew term occurs in the Bible only here and in v. 21. It has also been understood as a veil or type of head covering. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:414) suggests that given the context of magical devices, the expected parallel to the magical arm bands, and the meaning of this Hebrew root (סָפַח [safakh, “to attach” or “join”]), it may refer to headbands or necklaces on which magical amulets were worn.

[13:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls” (three times in v. 18 and twice in v. 19).

[16:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”

[17:22]  ⁹ sn The language is analogous to messianic imagery in Isa 11:1; Zech 3:8; 6:4 although the technical terminology is not the same.

[17:22]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX lacks “and plant it.”

[21:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “mother.”

[21:21]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn This word refers to personal idols that were apparently used for divination purposes (Gen 31:19; 1 Sam 19:13, 16).

[21:21]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “sees.”

[21:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the liver.”

[23:42]  ¹³ tn Heb “(was) in her.”

[23:42]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and men from the multitude of mankind.”

[23:42]  ¹⁵ tn An alternate reading is “drunkards.” Sheba is located in the area of modern day Yemen.

[23:42]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referents (the sisters) have been specified in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[29:18]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).

[29:18]  ¹⁶ sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c.

[32:27]  ¹⁷ tc Heb “of the uncircumcised.” The LXX reads, probably correctly, “from of old” rather than “of the uncircumcised.” The phrases are very similar in spelling. The warriors of Meshech-Tubal are described as uncircumcised, so it would be odd for them to not be buried with the uncircumcised. Verse 28 specifically says that they would lie with the uncircumcised.

[32:27]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and their iniquities were over their bones.” The meaning of this statement is unclear; in light of the parallelism (see “swords”) it is preferable to emend “their iniquities” to “their swords.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:135.

[40:1]  ¹⁹ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ²⁰ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ²¹ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  ²² sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).