Ezekiel 8:4 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 8:4

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

KJV

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ASV

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.

WEB

And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain.

YLT

and lo, there the honour of the God of Israel, as the appearance that I saw in the valley.

DBT

And behold, the glory of theGod of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the valley.

About this book

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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16 verses on the floor

Ezekiel 3:22–23
And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Ezekiel 11:23
And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
Ezekiel 1:28
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Ezekiel 1:26–28
And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

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(1.) The very setting up of this image in the house of the Lord was enough to provoke him to jealousy; for it is in the matters of his worship that we are particularly told, I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Note, The more glorious we see God to be the more odious we shall see sin to be, especially idolatry, which turns his truth in to a lie, his glory into shame. It was also to aggravate their approaching misery, when this glory of the Lord should remove from them ( ch. xi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The Shekinah cloud of Jehovah's glory, notwithstanding the provocation of the idol, still remains in the temple, like that which Ezekiel saw "in the plain" (Eze 3:22, 23); not till Eze 10:4, 18 did it leave the temple at Jerusalem, showing the long-suffering of God, which ought to move the Jews to repentance.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H123720× in canon H4758103× in canon H3519200× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 8:42CO 3:18 2CO 4:4
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 8:42CO 3:18 2CO 4:6
EZE 8:42CO 3:18 EPH 4:22-24
EZE 8:42CO 3:18 ROM 12:2
EZE 8:4HEB 1:3 COL 1:15-17
EZE 8:42CO 3:18 1CO 13:12
EZE 8:4HEB 1:3 REV 4:11
EZE 8:4HEB 1:3 JHN 14:9-10

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