translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “set your face against.”


text: Heb “the prince, the chief of Meshech and Tubal.” Some translate “the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal,” but it is more likely that the Hebrew noun in question is a common noun in apposition to “prince,” rather than a proper name. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:434-35. As Block demonstrates, attempts by some popular writers to identify these proper names with later geographical sites in Russia are anachronistic. See as well E. Yamauchi, Foes From the Northern Frontier , 19-27. sn Meshech and Tubal were two nations in Cappadocia of Asia Minor. They were also sons of Japheth ( Gen 10:2 ; 1 Chr 1:5 ).


text: Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘ h!nn#n' ?l?K> ,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.


text: D. I. Block prefers to see the Hebrew word as referring here to a western ally of Egypt or as an alternative spelling for Pathros, that is, Upper Egypt. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:439-40.


text: The words “they are joined by” are added in the translation for purposes of English style.


text: The second person singular verbal and pronominal forms in the Hebrew text indicate that Gog is addressed here.


text: Heb “from the sword.”


text: Heb “it.”


text: Heb “go up.”


text: Heb “words will go up upon your heart.”


text: Heb “go up against.”


text: Heb “come (to).”


text: Heb “to turn your hand against.”


text: The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37 . Perhaps it means “high point, top.”


text: Heb “young lions.”


text: The Hebrew text is framed as a rhetorical question: “will you not take notice?”


text: Heb “come up.”


text: Or “reveal my holiness.”


text: Heb “by the hand of my servants.”


text: The Hebrew text adds “years” here, but this is probably a scribal gloss on the preceding phrase. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:201.


text: Heb “goes up against.”


text: Or “shaking.”


text: Or “tremble.”


text: The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14 .


text: Heb “against.”


text: Heb “him”; the referent (Gog, cf. v. 18 ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.