Ezekiel 5:11

5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare ¹  you.

Ezekiel 8:6

8:6 He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing – the great abominations that the people ²  of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!”

Ezekiel 9:6

9:6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

Ezekiel 11:16

11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little ³  sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

Ezekiel 24:21

24:21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary – the source of your confident pride, ⁴  the object in which your eyes delight, ⁵  and your life’s passion. ⁶  Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die ⁷  by the sword.

Ezekiel 25:3

25:3 Say to the Ammonites, ‘Hear the word of the sovereign Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says: You said “Aha!” about my sanctuary when it was desecrated, about the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and about the house of Judah when they went into exile.

Ezekiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ⁸  watch closely and listen carefully to ⁹  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ¹⁰  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ¹¹  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ¹²  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ¹³ 

Ezekiel 44:11

44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.

Ezekiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ¹⁴  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 47:12

47:12 On both sides of the river’s banks, every kind of tree will grow for food. Their leaves will not wither nor will their fruit fail, but they will bear fruit every month, because their water source flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.” ¹⁵ 

Ezekiel 48:8

48:8 “Next to the border of Judah from the east side to the west will be the allotment you must set apart. It is to be eight and a quarter miles ¹⁶  wide, and the same length as one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west; the sanctuary will be in the middle of it.

Ezekiel 48:10

48:10 These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles ¹⁷  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ¹⁸  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ¹⁹  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ²⁰  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

Ezekiel 48:21

48:21 “The rest, on both sides of the holy allotment and the property of the city, will belong to the prince. Extending from the eight and a quarter miles ²¹  of the holy allotment to the east border, and westward from the eight and a quarter miles ²²  to the west border, alongside the portions, it will belong to the prince. The holy allotment and the sanctuary of the temple will be in the middle of it.

[5:11]  ¹ 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.

[8:6]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[11:16]  ³ tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).

[24:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”

[24:21]  ⁵ sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”) so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.

[24:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”

[24:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “fall.”

[44:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

[44:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

[44:5]  ⁷ tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.

[44:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “to desecrate.”

[44:7]  ⁷ tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

[44:9]  ⁷ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

[44:15]  ⁸ sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).

[47:12]  ⁹ sn See Rev 22:1-2.

[48:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:10]  ¹² tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers).

[48:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:21]  ¹² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).

[48:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).