Ezekiel 1:3
And the word of the Lord came to Jezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river of Chobar; and the hand of the Lord was upon me.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2On the fifth day of the month; this was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joakim.
Cross References
2 Kings 3:15And now fetch me a harper. And it came to pass, as the harper harped, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.
Jeremiah 1:2accordingly as the word of God came to him in the days of Josias son of Amos king of Juda, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Jeremiah 29:15I have made you small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.
Ezekiel 3:14And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.
Ezekiel 3:22And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and he said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shall you be spoken to.
Ezekiel 8:1And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in the house, and the elders of Juda were sitting before me: and the hand of the Lord came 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 →