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Ezekiel 8:1 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 8 · verse 1
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.Ezekiel 8:1 · King James Version
Ezekiel 8:1 in context
1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
2Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- elderszâqênoldH2205 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- sixthshishshîysixth, ord. or fractionalH8345 →
- fifthchâmêshfiveH2568 →
- monthchôdeshthe new moonH2320 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
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Ezekiel was now in Babylon; but the messages of wrath he had delivered in the foregoing chapters related to Jerusalem, for in the peace or trouble thereof the captives looked upon themselves to have peace or trouble, and therefore here he has a vision of what was done at Jerusalem, and this vision is continued to the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6