Discovery BoxEzekiel 6:5
Context6:5 I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, 1 and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezekiel 16:26
Context16:26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, 2 multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:28
Context16:28 You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.
Ezekiel 23:9
Context23:9 Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians 3 for whom she lusted.
Ezekiel 25:2
Context25:2 “Son of man, turn toward 4 the Ammonites 5 and prophesy against them.
Ezekiel 27:15
Context27:15 The Dedanites 6 were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid 7 you with ivory tusks and ebony.
Ezekiel 33:17
Context33:17 “Yet your people 8 say, ‘The behavior 9 of the Lord is not right,’ 10 when it is their behavior that is not right.
Ezekiel 37:18
Context37:18 When your people 11 say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean?’
[6:5] 1 tc This first sentence, which explains the meaning of the last sentence of the previous verse, does not appear in the LXX and may be an instance of a marginal explanatory note making its way into the text.
[16:26] 2 tn Heb “your neighbors, large of flesh.” The word “flesh” is used here of the genitals. It may simply refer to the size of their genitals in general, or, as the translation suggests, depicts them as sexually aroused.
[23:9] 3 tn Heb “I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria.”
[25:2] 4 tn Heb “set your face toward.”
[25:2] 5 tn Heb “the sons of Ammon.” Ammon was located to the east of Israel.
[27:15] 5 tn Heb “sons of Dedan.”
[27:15] 6 tn Heb “they returned as your gift.”
[33:17] 6 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
[33:17] 8 tn The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29.
