translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET textual note

text: Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block ( Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography. sn April 23, 587 b.c .


label: NET translator note

text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Heb “I will be filled.”


text: The word הִנֵּה ( hinneh , traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.


text: Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘ h!nn#n' ?l?K> ,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8. The Hebrew text switches to a second feminine singular form here, indicating that personified Jerusalem is addressed (see vv. 5-6 a). The address to Jerusalem continues through v. 15 . In vv. 16-17 the second masculine plural is used, as the people are addressed.


text: Or “debris.”


text: The word הִנֵּה ( hinneh , traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something.


text: Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an an “ r ” rather than an “ n .”


text: Heb “swords.”


text: Heb “From the abundance of his horses he will cover you (with) their dust.”


text: Heb “like those who enter a breached city.”


text: Heb “desirable.”


text: Heb “set.”


text: Heb “into the midst of the water.”


text: Heb “cause to end.”


text: Heb “descend from.”


text: Heb “and they will be astonished over you.”


text: Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”


text: Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.


text: Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17 b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”


text: Heb “from your going out.”


text: Heb “many.”


text: Heb “to the people of antiquity.”


text: Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כְּ ( kÿ , “like”), to בְּ ( bÿ , “in, among”).


text: Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read “nor will you stand” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block ( Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”