Ezekiel 10


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. In this chapter, Ezekiel sees "God's Glory depart from the Temple".

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, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, and Codex Leningradensis. Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, that is, 4Q73 with extant verses 5–22.
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, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Verse 1

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

Verse 4

  • "Cherub" : in Brown-Driver-Briggs is defined as "the living chariot of the theophanic God." Gesenius describes it as "a being of a sublime and celestial nature." Same as in.

    Verse 15

  • "Cherub": see notes on [|Ezekiel 10:4].

    Verse 20

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

    Verse 22

  • "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.

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