4Q73
Ezekiela
Language:
Hebrew
Date:
50-25 B.C.
Location:
Qumran Cave 4
Contents:
Ezekiel 10:5-11:11; 23:14-15, 17-18, 44-47; 41:3-6
Ezekiel
10
5 The
sound of
the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of
God Almighty when he speaks.
6 It came
to pass,
when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels,
from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. 7 The cherub stretched out his hand from
between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who
took it and went out. 8 The form of
a man’s hand hands appeared here in the cherubim under their
wings.
9 I
looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel
beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub. The appearance of the wheels was like a beryl
stone. 10 As for their appearance, the
four of them had one likeness, like
a wheel within a wheel. 11 When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they
went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn
as they went. 12 Their whole body, including their backs, their hands,
their wings, and the wheels, were full of
eyes all around, even the wheels that the
four of them had. 13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing,
“the whirling wheels”. 14 Every one them had four
faces. The first face was the face of the cherub. The second face was the face
of a man. The third face was the face of a lion. The fourth was the face
of an eagle.
15 The
cherubim mounted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river
Chebar. 16 When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the
cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also
didn’t turn from beside them. 17 When they stood, these stood. When they
mounted up, these mounted up with them; for the spirit of the living
creature was in them.
18 Yahweh’s glory went out from over the threshold of
the house, and stood over the cherubim. 19 The cherubim lifted up their
wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went
out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east
gate of Yahweh’s house; and the glory of the
God of Israel was over them above.
20 This
is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river
Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim. 21 Every one had
four faces, and every one four wings.
The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22 As for the
likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river
Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.
Ezekiel
11
1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to
the east
gate of Yahweh’s house, which looks eastward.
Behold, twenty-five men were at the door of the gate; and I saw among them Jaazaniah
the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
2 He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and
who give wicked counsel in
this city; 3 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’
[..]
5 Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me,
and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel;
for I know the things that come into your mind. 6 You have
multiplied your slain in this city, and
you have filled its streets with
the slain.
7 “ ‘Therefore
thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Your slain whom you have laid in the middle of it, they
are the meat, and this is the cauldron; but you will be brought out of the
middle of it. 8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the
sword on you,” says the Lord Yahweh. 9 “I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver
you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10 You
will fall by the sword. I will judge you in
the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh. 11 This will not be your cauldron, neither will
you be the meat in the middle of it. I will judge you in the border of Israel.
[..]
Ezekiel
23
14 “She increased her
prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the
Chaldeans portrayed with red, 15 dressed with
belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking
like princes, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
[..]
17 The Babylonians came
to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution. She
was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them. 18 So she uncovered her prostitution and uncovered her
nakedness. Then my soul was alienated from her, just
like my soul was alienated from her sister.
[..]
44 They went
in to
her, as they go in to a prostitute. So
they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, the lewd women. 45 Righteous
men will judge them with the judgment of
adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
46 “For thus says the Lord Yahweh:
‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth
and robbed. 47 The company will
stone them with stones, and dispatch
them with their swords. They will kill
their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Ezekiel
41
3 Then he went inward and measured each post of the entrance,
two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the width of the entrance, seven
cubits. 4 He measured its length, twenty cubits, and
the width, twenty cubits, before the
temple. He said to me, “This is the most holy place.”
5 Then
he measured the wall of the house, six cubits;
and the width of every side room, four cubits, all around the house on every side. 6 The
side rooms were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in
order. They entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side
rooms all around, that they might be supported, and not penetrate the wall of
the house.