Ezekiel 10

Ezekiel 10
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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
Hebrew Bible part	Nevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part	7
Category	Latter Prophets
Christian Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Christian part	26

Ezekiel 10 is the tenth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. ^{[1] [2]} In this chapter, Ezekiel sees "God's Glory depart from the Temple". ^{[3] [4]}

Text

The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 22 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), and Codex Leningradensis (1008). ^[5] Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, that is, 4Q73 (4QEzek^a; 50–25 BCE) with extant verses 5–22. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; ${\displaystyle {\mathfrak {G}}}$^Q; 6th century). ^{[10] [lower-alpha 1]}

Verse 1

I looked, and there in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim, there appeared something like a sapphire stone, having the appearance of the likeness of a throne". ^[12]

The sapphire stone is said to be like a throne of lapis lazuli in the New International Version.

Verse 4

Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub,

and stood over the threshold of the house;

and the house was filled with the cloud,

and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory. ^[13]

• "Cherub" (Hebrew: כרוב kə-rūḇ ; plural: Cherubim): in Brown-Driver-Briggs is defined as "the living chariot of the theophanic God." ^[14] Gesenius describes it as "a being of a sublime and celestial nature." ^[15] Same as in Ezekiel 1:5–14. ^[16]

Verse 15

And the cherubims were lifted up.

This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. ^[17]

• "Cherub": see notes on Ezekiel 10:4.

Verse 20

This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar;

and I knew that they were the cherubims. ^[18]

• "Living creature": see notes on Ezekiel 10:15.

Verse 22

And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the River Chebar,

their appearance and their persons.

They each went straight forward. (NKJV) ^[19]

• "River Chebar": is generally identified as the "Kebar Canal", near Nippur in what is now Iraq. It was part of a complex network of irrigation and transport canals which also included the Shatt el-Nil, a silted up canal toward the east of Babylon. ^{[20] [21]}

See also

• Ark of the Covenant
• Chebar river
• Cherubim
• Israel
• Jerusalem
• Judah
• Living creatures
• Mercy seat
• Shekhinah

• Related Bible parts: Deuteronomy 31, Ezekiel 1, Hosea 9, 1 Corinthians 14, Hebrews 1, Revelation 2

Notes

1. Ezekiel is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus. ^[11]

References

1. J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
2. Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
3. Halperin, David J. (January 1976). "The Exegetical Character of Ezek. X 9-17". Vetus Testamentum . 26 (2). Leiden: Brill Publishers on behalf of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament: 129–141. doi:10.1163/156853376X00286. eISSN   1568-5330. ISSN   0042-4935. JSTOR   1517382. S2CID   170312460.
4. Chapter heading in the New International Version (NIV).
5. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
6. Ulrich 2010, pp. 587–588.
7. Dead sea scrolls - Ezekiel
8. Fitzmyer, Joseph A. (2008). A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 38. ISBN   9780802862419 . Retrieved February 15, 2019.
9. 4Q73 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
10. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
11. Shepherd, Michael (2018). A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets. Kregel Exegetical Library. Kregel Academic. p. 13. ISBN   978-0825444593.
12. Ezekiel 10:1: NKJV
13. Ezekiel 10:4: KJV
14. Brown, Francis; Briggs, Charles A.; Driver, S. R. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Hendrickson Publishers; Reprint edition (1994). ISBN   978-1565632066. "כְּרוּב".
15. Gesenius, H. W. F. Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament Scriptures: Numerically Coded to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, with an English Index. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (Translator). Baker Book House; 7th edition. 1979. כְּרוּב
16. 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. 1192-1193 Hebrew Bible. ISBN   978-0195288810
17. Ezekiel 10:15
18. Ezekiel 10:20
19. Ezekiel 10:22
20. Allen, Leslie C. (1994). Word Bible Commentary: Ezekiel 1–19. Dallas: Word, Incorporated. p. 22. ISBN   0-8499-0830-2.
21. Block, Daniel I. (1997). NICOT: The Book of Ezekiel: Chapters 1–24. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans. p. 84. ISBN   0802825354.

Bibliography

• Bromiley, Geoffrey W. (1995). International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: vol. iv, Q-Z. Eerdmans. ISBN   9780802837844.
• Clements, Ronald E (1996). Ezekiel. Westminster John Knox Press. ISBN   9780664252724.
• Halperin, David J. (January 1976). "The Exegetical Character of Ezek. X 9-17". Vetus Testamentum . 26 (2). Leiden: Brill Publishers on behalf of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament: 129–141. doi:10.1163/156853376X00286. eISSN   1568-5330. ISSN   0042-4935. JSTOR   1517382. S2CID   170312460.
• Joyce, Paul M. (2009). Ezekiel: A Commentary. Continuum. ISBN   9780567483614.
• Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill.
• Würthwein, Ernst (1995). The Text of the Old Testament. Translated by Rhodes, Erroll F. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN   0-8028-0788-7 . Retrieved January 26, 2019.

External links

Jewish

• Ezekiel 10 Hebrew with Parallel English
• Ezekiel 10 Hebrew with Rashi's Commentary

Christian

• Ezekiel 10 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate Archived 2017-03-01 at the Wayback Machine