Ezekiel 9:7

9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

Ezekiel 18:11

18:11 (though the father did not do any of them). ¹  He eats pagan sacrifices on the mountains, ²  defiles his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 18:15

18:15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

Ezekiel 20:7

20:7 I said to them, “Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, ³  and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 20:18

20:18 “‘But I said to their children ⁴  in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, ⁵  nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 20:26

20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices ⁶  – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire ⁷  – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ ⁸ 

Ezekiel 20:30

20:30 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers ⁹  and engage in prostitution with detestable idols?

Ezekiel 20:43

20:43 And there you will remember your conduct ¹⁰  and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves ¹¹  because of all the evil deeds you have done.

Ezekiel 22:3

22:3 Then say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), ¹²  and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),

Ezekiel 22:11

22:11 One ¹³  commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates ¹⁴  his sister – his father’s daughter ¹⁵  – within you.

Ezekiel 23:7

23:7 She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired ¹⁶  – with all their idols.

Ezekiel 36:17

36:17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior ¹⁷  and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.

[18:11]  ¹ tn Heb “and he all of these did not do.” The parenthetical note refers back to the father described in the preceding verses.

[18:11]  ² sn See note on “mountains” in v. 6.

[20:7]  ¹ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of his eyes, throw away.” The Pentateuch does not refer to the Israelites worshiping idols in Egypt, but Josh 24:14 appears to suggest that they did so.

[20:18]  ¹ tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

[20:18]  ² tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.

[20:26]  ¹ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:26]  ² sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).

[20:26]  ³ sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.

[20:30]  ¹ tn Heb “in the way of your fathers.”

[20:43]  ¹ tn Heb “ways.”

[20:43]  ² tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”

[22:3]  ¹ tn Heb “her time”; this refers to the time of impending judgment (see the note on “doom” in v. 4).

[22:11]  ¹ tn Heb “a man.”

[22:11]  ² tn The verb is the same one used in verse 10b and suggests forcible sexual violation of the woman.

[22:11]  ³ sn Sexual relations with one’s half-sister may be primarily in view here. See Lev 18:9; 20:17.

[23:7]  ¹ tn Heb “lusted after.”

[36:17]  ¹ tn Heb “way.”