translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Or perhaps “draw.”


text: Or “a barricade.”


text: Heb “set camps against it.”


text: Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.


text: That is, a symbolic object lesson.


text: Or “punishment” (also in vv. 5, 6 ).


text: Heb “I have assigned for you that the years of their iniquity be the number of days.” Num 14:33-34 is an example of the reverse, where the days were converted into years, the number of days spying out the land becoming the number of years of the wilderness wanderings.


label: NET textual note

text: The LXX reads “190 days.” sn The significance of the number 390 is not clear. The best explanation is that “days” are used figuratively for years and the number refers to the years of the sinfulness of Israel during the period of the First Temple. Some understand the number to refer to the length of the division of the northern and southern kingdoms down to the fall of Jerusalem (931-586 b.c. ), but this adds up to only 345 years.


text: Or “When you have carried the iniquity of the house of Israel,” and continuing on to the next verse.


text: Heb “bread.”


text: The LXX reads “190 days.”


text: Heb “from time to time.”


text: The Hebrew term refers to sacrificial meat not eaten by the appropriate time ( Lev 7:18; 19:7 ).


text: Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.


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


text: Or “in their punishment.” Ezek 4:16-17 alludes to Lev 26:26, 39 . The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here, 3:18, 19; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23 . The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”