translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT. An apparent cognate in the Ethiopic language means “walk along.” For a discussion of the research on this verb, see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:460.


text: Heb “burn and kindle the weapons.”


text: Two different types of shields are specified in the Hebrew text.


text: Heb “they will not carry.”


text: Heb “loot their looters and plunder their plunderers.”


text: The name means “horde of Gog.”


text: Heb “the house of Israel.”


text: Heb “name.”


text: Heb “men of perpetuity.”


text: Heb “and bury the travelers and those who remain on the surface of the ground.” The reference to “travelers” seems odd and is omitted in the LXX. It is probably an accidental duplication (see v. 11 ).


text: Heb “as the scouts scout.”


text: That is, the aforementioned bone.


text: This name appears to be a feminine form of the word “horde,” used in the name Hamon-Gog.


text: Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).


text: Heb “chariots.”


text: Or “my glory.”


text: Heb “my hand which I have placed.”


text: Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9 . The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.


text: Heb “cause to return.”


text: Heb “there,” referring to the foreign nations to which they were exiled. The translation makes the referent clear.