translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Or “power.” sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God ( 3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1 ).


text: Heb “caused me to rest.”


text: Heb “and he made me pass over them, around, around.”


text: The word הִנֵּה ( hinneh , traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and is here translated as “I realized” because it results from Ezekiel’s recognition of the situation around him. In Hebrew, the exclamation is repeated in the following sentence.


text: Heb “I am about to bring a spirit.”


text: The exact physiological meaning of the term is uncertain. In addition to v. 8 , the term occurs only in Gen 32:33; Job 10:11; 40:17 ; and Jer 48:4 .


text: Or “a spirit.”


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


text: Heb “came up.”


text: Or “spirit.”


text: Or “spirit,” and several times in this verse.


text: Or “spirit.” This is likely an allusion to and God’s breath which creates life.


text: Heb “bring near.”


text: Heb “one to one for you for one stick.”


text: Heb “the sons of your people.”


text: Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”


label: NET textual note

text: Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater , yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה , and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.


text: Heb “walk [in].”


text: Heb “and my statutes they will guard and they will do them.”


text: Heb “give them.”