translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: The lion was a figure of royalty ( Ezek 19:1-9 ).


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew reads “their streams”; the LXX reads “your streams.”


text: The expression “throw my net” is common in Ezekiel ( 12:13; 17:20; 19:8 ).


text: Or “cause.”


text: Heb “live.”


text: Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.


text: The Hebrew text is difficult here, apparently meaning “your height.” Following Symmachus and the Syriac, it is preferable to emend the text to read “your maggots.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:203.


text: Heb “from you.”


text: Heb “will not shine its light.” For similar features of cosmic eschatology, see Joel 2:10; 4:15 ; Amos 5:18-20 ; Zeph 1:5 .


text: Heb “I will provoke the heart of.”


text: Heb “approach.”


text: Heb “muddy.”


text: Heb “them,” that is, the waters mentioned in the previous line. The translation clarifies the referent.


text: Heb “sink,” that is, to settle and become clear, not muddied.


text: March 17, 585 b.c . The LXX adds “first month.”


text: The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death ( Jer 9:17-19 ; Amos 5:16 ).


text: Heb “Bring him down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth below.” The verb “bring down” appears in the Hebrew text only once. Because the verb takes several objects here, the repetition of the verb in the translation improves the English style.


text: This apparently refers to personified Egypt.


text: The LXX places this verse after v. 21 . tn The words “say to them” are added in the translation for clarity to indicate the shift in addressee from the prophet to Egypt.


text: Heb “pleasantness.”


text: Heb “around him his graves.” The masculine pronominal suffixes are problematic; the expression is best emended to correspond to the phrase “around her grave” in v. 23 . See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:219.


text: Heb “all of them slain, the ones felled by the sword.” See as well vv. 23-24 .


text: Heb “whose.”


text: The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15 .


text: Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24 ).


text: Heb “of the uncircumcised.” The LXX reads, probably correctly, “from of old” rather than “of the uncircumcised.” The phrases are very similar in spelling. The warriors of Meshech-Tubal are described as uncircumcised, so it would be odd for them to not be buried with the uncircumcised. Verse 28 specifically says that they would lie with the uncircumcised.


text: Heb “and their iniquities were over their bones.” The meaning of this statement is unclear; in light of the parallelism (see “swords”) it is preferable to emend “their iniquities” to “their swords.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:135.