Ezekiel 8:1

And 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 Judah were sitting before me: and the hand of the Lord came upon me.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2And I looked, and, behold, the likeness of a man: from his loins and downward there was fire, and from his loins upward there was as the appearance of amber.

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Cross References

2 Kings 6:32And Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man before him: before the messenger came to him, he also said to the elders, Do ye see that this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, as soon as the messenger shall have come, shut the door, and forcibly detain him at the door: is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?

Ezekiel 1:3And the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river of Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was upon me.

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 14:1And there came to me men of the people of Israel, of the elders, and sat before me.

Ezekiel 20:1And it came to pass in the seventh year, on the fifteenth day of the month, there came men of the elders of the house of Israel to inquire of the Lord, and they sat before me.

Ezekiel 26:1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 8:1

God, having given the prophet a clear foresight of the people's miseries that were hastening on, here gives him a clear insight into the people's wickedness, by which God was provoked to bring these miseries upon them, that he might justify God in all his judgments, might the more particularly reprove the sins of the people, and with the more satisfaction foretel their ruin. Here God, in vision, brings him to Jerusalem, to show him the sins that were committed there, though God had begun to contend with them (… Read the whole commentary →

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