Ezekiel 14

Ezekiel 14
Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from the early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
Book Book of Ezekiel
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 26
Category Nevi'im

Ezekiel 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter records a visit of some Israeli elders to Ezekiel and God's response through the prophet dealing with the sins of idolatry.[1]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Structure

NKJV groups this chapter into:

Verse 3

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart,
' and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:
should I be enquired of at all by them? (NKJV)[2]
  • "Son of man" (Hebrew: בן־אדם ḇen-’ā-ḏām): this phrase is used 93 times to address Ezekiel.[3]
  • "Idols" (Hebrew: גִּלּוּלִ gillul; plural: גִּלּוּלִים gillulim): found 39 times in the Book of Ezekiel and in Leviticus 26:30. Originally means "trunks, logs, blocks," that can be "rolled", it could denote "the primitive stone menhir or construct.[4][5][6]
  • "Set up their idols in their heart": Rashi interprets this as "Their heart is toward their idols to worship [them]."[7]

Verse 14

Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness,
saith the Lord God.[8]
  • "Three men": These three men are selected as they had plead in different "worlds", according to Rashi, that is Noah witnesses the world destroyed and rebuilt, Daniel the temple destroyed and rebuilt, Job the prosperity/"greatness" destroyed and rebuilt.[9] These three Israel's righteous spiritual heroes "could not have prevailed with God in prayer to save the people" from the coming disasters.[10]

Verse 20

Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God,
they shall deliver neither son nor daughter;
they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.[11]
  • "they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness": The city of Sodom could be saved with a minimum number of righteous people (Genesis 18:22-23), but the righteous people can only save one's own soul in the case of determined judgment on Jerusalem.[12]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Clements 1996, p. 51.
  2. ↑ Ezekiel 14:3
  3. ↑ Bromiley 1995, p. 574.
  4. ↑ Brown, 1994 & "גִּלּוּלִ".
  5. ↑ Gesenius, 1979 & "גִּלּוּלִ".
  6. ↑ The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1188 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
  7. ↑ Rashi's commentary on Ezekiel 14:3.
  8. ↑ Ezekiel 14:14
  9. ↑ Rashi's Commentary on Ezekiel 14:14.
  10. ↑ Clements 1996, p. 64.
  11. ↑ Ezekiel 14:20
  12. ↑ The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1197-1198 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810

Bibliography

  • Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1995). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: vol. iv, Q-Z. Eerdmans.
  • Brown, Francis; Briggs, Charles A.; Driver, S. R. (1994). The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (reprint ed.). Hendrickson Publishers. ISBN 978-1565632066.
  • Clements, Ronald E (1996). Ezekiel. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN 9780664252724.
  • Gesenius, H. W. F. (1979). Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, with an English Index. Translated by Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux (7th ed.). Baker Book House.
  • Joyce, Paul M. (2009). Ezekiel: A Commentary. Continuum. ISBN 9780567483614.

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