translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET textual note

text: Heb “they approached.” Reading the imperative assumes the same consonantal text but different vowels.


label: NET translator note

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


text: Or “a scribe’s inkhorn.” The Hebrew term occurs in the OT only in and is believed to be an Egyptian loanword.


text: Heb “house.”


text: Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.” map For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: The word translated “mark” is in Hebrew the letter ת ( tav ). Outside this context the only other occurrence of the word is in Job 31:35 . In ancient Hebrew script this letter was written like the letter X. sn For a similar concept in the Bible, see Rev 7:2-4; 13:16; 14:9, 11; 20:4; 22:4 .


text: Heb “to these he said in my ears.”


text: The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.


text: Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”


text: Heb “their way on their head I have placed.” The same expression occurs in 1 Kgs 8:32 ; Ezek 11:21; 16:43; 22:31 .