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Ezekiel 11:14

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Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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This verse in Ezekiel 11

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,.... In answer to his prayer. The Targum calls it, "the word of prophecy from the Lord;'' this was by way of comfort to the captives in Babylon, as the former was by way of threatening to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

This site's exposition

Then the word of the LORD came to me

on Ezekiel 11:14-16

The Lord answers, “for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.” The Hebrew can mean a sanctuary in small measure or for a short time, and either way God is present to exiles without a temple.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 14 onwards) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, your brothers, your brothers: the men near you and all the house of Israel, all of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said: Depart far from the Lord: to us the land has been given as possession. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: because I have removed them far off among the nations, and because I have scattered them among the lands, I will be a small sanctification for them in the lands which they have come to.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Your brethren, your brethren The exile of Samaria and the exile of Jeconiah.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 11:15:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֥יand it came

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • דְבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֵלַ֥יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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