translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “sons of your people.”


text: Heb “shofar,” a ram’s horn rather than a brass instrument (so throughout the chapter).


text: Sounding the trumpet was a warning of imminent danger ( Neh 4:18-20 ; Jer 4:19 ; Amos 3:6 ).


text: Heb “his blood will be on his own head.”


text: Heb “his blood will be on him.”


text: Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 8 and 9; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 39:23 . The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.


text: Heb “his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.”


text: The same expression occurs in Gen 2:17 .


text: Heb “and you do not speak to warn.”


text: Heb “way.”


text: Heb “and his blood from your hand I will seek.”


text: Heb “from his way to turn from it.”


text: Heb “and he does not turn from his way.”


text: Heb “(are) upon us.”


text: Heb “turn from his way.”


text: Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.


text: Heb “the sons of your people.”


text: Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.


text: Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”


text: Heb “by it.”


text: Heb “in the day of his sin.”


text: Heb “the wicked one.”


text: Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”


text: Heb “remembered.”


text: The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29 .


text: Heb “ways.”


text: January 19, 585 b.c .


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


text: Heb “smitten.”


text: The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord ” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.


text: Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.


text: Heb “lift up your eyes.”


text: Heb “Will you possess?”


text: Heb “stand.”


text: Heb “fall.”


text: Heb “sons of your people.”


text: Heb “one to one, a man to his brother.”


text: Heb “comes out.”


text: Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.


text: The word “as” is supplied in the translation.


text: Heb “do.”


text: Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”


text: Heb “goes after.”


text: The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.


text: The word הִנֵּה ( hinneh , traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.


text: Heb “one who makes playing music well.”


text: Heb “behold it is coming.”