Ezekiel 1

1 a. So with MT, LXX, Vg.; Syr., Tg. a vision

3 b. Or Babylonians, and so elsewhere in the book

7 c. Lit. feet

20 d. Lit. living creature; LXX, Vg. spirit of life; Tg. creatures

21 e. See note at v. 20

22 f. Or expanse

22 g. So with LXX, Tg., Vg.; MT living creature

Ezekiel 2

4 a. Lit. stiff-faced and hard-hearted sons

Ezekiel 3

7 a. Lit. strong of forehead

14 b. Or anger

26 c. Lit. one who rebukes

Ezekiel 4

8 a. Lit. put ropes on

14 b. Ritually unclean flesh, Lev. 7:18

Ezekiel 5

7 a. Or raged

7 b. So with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; many Heb. mss., Syr. but have done (cf. 11:12)

15 c. LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. you

Ezekiel 6

3 a. Places for pagan worship

6 b. Places for pagan worship

11 c. Lit. Strike your hands

Ezekiel 7

9 a. Lit. give

11 b. Or their wealth

25 c. Lit. Shuddering

Ezekiel 8

3 a. Arouses the LORD’s jealousy

10 b. Or carved

14 c. A Sumerian fertility god similar to the Gr. god Adonis

Ezekiel 9

1 a. Or destroying

2 b. Lit. shattering weapon

2 c. Lit. upon his loins

3 d. Lit. house

5 e. Lit. ears

5 f. Lit. strike

6 g. Lit. Slay to destruction

6 h. Lit. house

7 i. Lit. house

Ezekiel 10

1 a. expanse

3 b. Lit. right

3 c. Lit. house

4 d. Lit. house

13 e. Lit. ears

17 f. Lit. they

17 g. Lit. they were

17 h. Lit. they lifted them

18 i. Lit. house

Ezekiel 11

2 a. Advice

3 b. Pot

11 c. Pot

16 d. holy place

19 e. Lit. you (pl.)

24 f. Or Babylon, and so elsewhere in the book

Ezekiel 12

10 a. oracle, prophecy

18 b. shaking

23 c. Lit. word

24 d. Lit. vain

Ezekiel 13

2 a. Inspiration

3 b. No vision

5 c. breaches

6 d. Come true

10 e. Or whitewash

17 f. Inspiration

18 g. Lit. over all the joints of My hands; Vg. under every elbow; LXX, Tg. on all elbows of the hands

20 h. Lit. flying ones

Ezekiel 14

15 a. Lit. bereave it of children

16 b. Lit. in the midst of it

21 c. Lit. evil

Ezekiel 16

3 a. origin and your birth

5 b. abhorred

7 c. Lit. a myriad

8 d. Or the corner of My garment

10 e. Or dolphin or dugong

12 f. Lit. ring

16 g. Places for pagan worship

19 h. Or a sweet aroma

24 i. Place for pagan worship

27 j. Allowance of food

31 k. Place for pagan worship

33 l. Or bribed

39 m. Places for pagan worship

43 n. So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT were agitated with Me

43 o. Lit. way

45 p. Or despising

50 q. Vg. you saw; LXX he saw; Tg. as was revealed to Me

57 r. Heb. Aram; so with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; many Heb. mss., Syr. Edom

Ezekiel 17

7 a. So with LXX, Syr., Vg.; MT, Tg. one

8 b. Lit. a good field

17 c. Or siege wall

18 d. Took an oath

20 e. Lit. unfaithful act

21 f. So with MT, Vg.; many Heb. mss., Syr. choice men; Tg. mighty men; LXX omits All his fugitives

Ezekiel 18

6 a. At the mountain shrines

8 b. Lent money at interest

8 c. justice

11 d. At the mountain shrines

15 e. At the mountain shrines

17 f. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX iniquity (cf. v. 8)

Ezekiel 19

7 a. LXX He stood in insolence; Tg. He destroyed its palaces; Vg. He learned to make widows

9 b. Or hooks

10 c. Lit. blood, so with MT, Syr., Vg.; LXX like a flower on a pomegranate tree; Tg. in your likeness

11 d. Or many branches

Ezekiel 20

8 a. Lit. listen to

11 b. Lit. made known to

22 c. Refrained from judgment

26 d. Lit. that open the womb

29 e. Place for pagan worship

29 f. Lit. High Place

40 g. offerings

43 h. Or despise

46 i. proclaim, lit. drop

46 j. Heb. Negev

Ezekiel 21

2 a. proclaim, lit. drop

6 b. Emotional distress, lit. the breaking of your loins

16 c. Lit. Sharpen yourself! or Unite yourself!

16 d. Lit. face

21 e. Heb. teraphim

27 f. Or Distortion, Ruin

30 g. Or origin

Ezekiel 22

5 a. Lit. defiled of name

6 b. Lit. arm

7 c. Lit. orphan

24 d. So with MT, Syr., Vg.; LXX showered upon

25 e. So with MT, Vg.; LXX princes; Tg. scribes

25 f. Lit. souls

26 g. Lit. done violence to

27 h. Lit. souls

Ezekiel 23

4 a. Lit. Her Own Tabernacle

4 b. Lit. My Tabernacle Is in Her

17 c. Lit. sons of Babel

20 d. Illicit lovers

34 e. Earthenware fragments

42 f. Or drunkards

42 g. Lit. hands

47 h. Lit. cut down

Ezekiel 24

4 a. Lit. bones

10 b. Lit. bones

12 c. Or wearied Me

12 d. Or toil

14 e. LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. I

17 f. Lit. moustache

21 g. Lit. the pride of your strength

21 h. Lit. compassion

22 i. Lit. moustache

25 j. Lit. the lifting up of their soul

Ezekiel 25

4 a. Lit. sons

13 b. Or even to Dedan they shall fall

15 c. Lit. spite in soul

15 d. Or perpetual

Ezekiel 26

7 a. Heb. Nebuchadrezzar, and so elsewhere in the book

8 b. Lit. a large shield

Ezekiel 27

3 a. Lit. sit or dwell

5 b. built

6 c. Heb. Kittim, western lands, especially Cyprus

10 d. Heb. Lud

10 e. Heb. Put

19 f. LXX, Syr. from Uzal

28 g. open lands or pasturelands

29 h. Lit. land

Ezekiel 28

2 a. Proud

17 b. Proud

26 c. securely

Ezekiel 29

3 a. The Nile

5 b. Lit. face of the field

5 c. So with MT, LXX, Vg.; some Heb. mss., Tg. buried

7 d. So with MT, Vg.; LXX, Syr. hand

10 e. Or the tower

21 f. Strength

Ezekiel 30

4 a. Heb. Cush

5 b. Heb. Put

5 c. Heb. Lud

6 d. Or the tower

9 e. Or secure

13 f. Ancient Memphis

14 g. Ancient Thebes

15 h. Ancient Pelusium

15 i. Ancient Thebes

17 j. Ancient On, Heliopolis

18 k. Tahpanhes, Jer. 43:7

18 l. So with many Heb. mss., Bg., LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT refrained

21 m. Lit. bandage

Ezekiel 31

4 a. Or channels

6 b. Lit. dwelled

8 c. Or plane, Heb. armon

10 d. Proud

15 e. Or Sheol

15 f. Lit. be darkened

16 g. Or Sheol

Ezekiel 32

4 a. Lit. sit or dwell

8 b. Or shining

14 c. Lit. sink; settle, grow clear

Ezekiel 33

5 a. Or deliver his soul

9 b. Or saved your life

10 c. Or waste away

14 d. justice

14 e. righteousness

17 f. Or equitable

20 g. Or equitable

21 h. Lit. struck down

28 i. Lit. pride of her strength

Ezekiel 34

4 a. harshness or rigor

13 b. Or by the streams

18 c. remainder

29 d. Lit. planting place

Ezekiel 35

3 a. Lit. a desolation and a waste

5 b. Or everlasting

6 c. Or bloodshed

7 d. Lit. a waste and a desolation

9 e. Lit. desolated forever

13 f. Lit. made yourself great

Ezekiel 36

2 a. Or everlasting

4 b. Or ravines

5 c. Lit. scorning souls

11 d. Lit. be fruitful

31 e. despise

38 f. Lit. holy flock

38 g. appointed feasts

Ezekiel 37

9 a. Breath of life

10 b. Breath of life

26 c. Lit. cut

Ezekiel 38

2 a. Tg., Vg., Aquila the chief prince of Meshech, also v. 3

5 b. Heb. Cush

5 c. Heb. Put

11 d. securely

19 e. Lit. shaking

Ezekiel 39

1 a. Tg., Vg., Aquila the chief prince of Meshech

4 b. Be slain

5 c. Be slain

5 d. Lit. the face of the field

6 e. securely or confidently

9 f. Lit. hand staffs

11 g. Lit. The Multitude of Gog

14 h. Lit. those who pass through

15 i. build

16 j. Lit. Multitude

28 k. Lit. there

Ezekiel 40

1 a. Lit. struck

4 b. Lit. set your heart

5 c. Lit. house

5 d. A royal cubit of about 21 inches

12 e. Lit. border

Ezekiel 41

1 a. Heb. heykal; the main room in the temple, the holy place, Ex. 26:33

5 b. Lit. house

6 c. Lit. the wall

9 d. Lit. house

15 e. Or sanctuary

17 f. Lit. house; the Most Holy Place

Ezekiel 42

6 a. Or narrowed

15 b. Lit. house

16 c. About 10.5 feet, Ezek. 40:5

20 d. Or profane

Ezekiel 43

3 a. Some Heb. mss., Vg. He

4 b. Lit. house

5 c. Lit. house

7 d. Unfaithful idolatry

10 e. Lit. house

11 f. Lit. house

12 g. Lit. house

13 h. A royal cubit of about 21 inches

15 i. Heb. ariel

21 j. Lit. house

26 k. Lit. fill its hands

26 l. LXX, Syr. themselves

Ezekiel 44

4 a. Lit. house

5 b. Lit. set your heart

12 c. Lit. became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel

30 d. Lit. first

Ezekiel 45

5 a. Lit. house

5 b. So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX a possession, cities of dwelling

19 c. Lit. house

Ezekiel 46

5 a. Lit. the gift of his hand

7 b. Lit. as much as his hand can reach

13 c. Lit. morning by morning

23 d. Lit. boiling places

24 e. Lit. house of those who boil

24 f. Lit. house

Ezekiel 47

1 a. Lit. house

8 b. Or Arabah, the Jordan Valley

9 c. Lit. two rivers

12 d. Or healing

19 e. Heb. Negev

19 f. Lit. Strife

Ezekiel 48

21 a. Lit. house

28 b. Heb. Negev

28 c. Lit. Strife

35 d. Heb. YHWH Shammah