Discovery BoxEzekiel 9:4
Context9:4 The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem 1 and put a mark 2 on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”
Ezekiel 9:8
Context9:8 While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out, “Ah, sovereign Lord! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?”
Ezekiel 13:18
Context13:18 and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands 3 on all their wrists 4 and make headbands 5 for heads of every size to entrap people’s lives! 6 Will you entrap my people’s lives, yet preserve your own lives?
Ezekiel 14:22
Context14:22 Yet some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their behavior and their deeds, you will be consoled about the catastrophe I have brought on Jerusalem – for everything I brought on it.
Ezekiel 38:12
Context38:12 to loot and plunder, to attack 7 the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center 8 of the earth.”
Ezekiel 38:16
Context38:16 You will advance 9 against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself 10 through you, O Gog.
Ezekiel 38:20
Context38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake 11 at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs 12 will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
Ezekiel 41:7
Context41:7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; 13 for the structure 14 surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.
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.
[9:4] 1 tn Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.”
[9:4] 2 tn The word translated “mark” is in Hebrew the letter ת (tav). Outside this context the only other occurrence of the word is in Job 31:35. In ancient Hebrew script this letter was written like the letter X.
[13:18] 3 sn The wristbands mentioned here probably represented magic bands or charms. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:413.
[13:18] 4 tn Heb “joints of the hands.” This may include the elbow and shoulder joints.
[13:18] 5 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] 6 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls” (three times in v. 18 and twice in v. 19).
[38:12] 5 tn Heb “to turn your hand against.”
[38:12] 6 tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”
[38:16] 8 tn Or “reveal my holiness.”
[38:20] 10 tn The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14.
[41:7] 11 tc The Hebrew is difficult here. The Targum envisions a winding ramp or set of stairs, which entails reading the first word as a noun rather than a verb and reading the second word also not as a verb, supposing that an initial mem has been read as vav and nun. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:549.
