Ezekiel 1:3
The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel the priest the son of Bud in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joachin,
Cross References
2 Kings 3:15But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:
Jeremiah 1:2The word of the Lord which came to him in the days of Josias the son of Amon king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Jeremiah 29:15Because you have said: The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon:
Ezekiel 3:14The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.
Ezekiel 3:22And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me: Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will speak to thee.
Ezekiel 8:1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the ancients of Juda sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 1:2-4
Ezekiel When we entered upon the writings of the prophets, which speak of the things that should be hereafter, we seemed to have the same call that St. John had ( Rev. iv. 1 ), Come up hither; but, when we enter upon the prophecy of this book, it is as if the voice said, Come up higher; as we go forward in time (for Ezekiel prophesied in the captivity, as Jeremiah prophesied just before it), so we soar upward in discoveries yet more sublime of the divine glory. These waters of the sanctuary still grow deeper; so… Read the whole commentary →