Ezekiel 3:22
in Ezekiel 3And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.”
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ASV
And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Ezekiel 3
Commentary
10 notes on this verse(Verse 22.) And there, the hand of the Lord came upon me and He said to me: rise up, go out into the field, and there I will speak with you. This phrase, \"there,\" which we have translated from the Hebrew and is not found in the Septuagint, is intentionally placed and undoubtedly signifies a specific location. For earlier we read: And I came to the captivity at Tel-abib, to those who dwelt near the river Chebar (Ezekiel 3:15).
This site's exposition
go out to the plain
on Ezekiel 3:22-24
The LORD’s hand comes on Ezekiel with the command “go out to the plain.” On the plain “the glory of the LORD was present there,” and he fell facedown as at the first vision. The Spirit “entered me and set me on my feet,” the same words as Ezekiel 2:2.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
Quiet is afforded by contemplating divine things, when the mind is free from external cares, which makes it anticipate things, and it is distracted no more fully here or there, but it can take in divine things more exactly when it is turned in on …
"Go out into the plain, and you will be spoken to." This means that [Ezekiel] is made into a sign for them; or on this day he is ordered to go out into the plain, and he will be spoken to; and on the plain that face will be revealed to him that was shown to him at the river Chebar.
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistHomilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 12 · Written before 604.
proposed
With the truth of history preserved, the divine utterances sometimes designate causes from time, sometimes from place, which they do not indicate by open speech. From time indeed, as when the Lord was preaching to the Jews it is said through the evangelist: "It was winter." For among those mysteries which the Truth was speaking, what was the reason for adding the name of winter, unless to show through the quality of the time the coldness of heart? Because even when they were receiving the words of truth, the hearts of the Jews remained cold. Sometimes indeed from place, as when to the carnal Israelite people, with Moses descending from the mountain, the law was given in the plains; and to the holy apostles the Lord sitting on the mountain spoke the highest and spiritual precepts, so that from the places it might be shown that to those as carnal ones the least commandments were given in the valley of the earth, and these as spiritual and holy ones might hear the heavenly commandments on the mountain, so that it might be openly shown that those ascending in heart to heavenly things would leave behind the lowest things of the world and would stand on the summit of the mind. Hence now the prophet Ezekiel describes what he did in places at God's command, so that through the qualities of places he might indicate what would follow in the future concerning the mysteries of the prophecy. For behold he says: "The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he said to me: Arise, go out into the plain, and there I will speak with you." What is the meaning of this, that previously the Lord had spoken to His prophet in the midst of the Israelites, and yet afterward He says: "Go out into the plain, and there I will speak with you," unless that He deigned both to pour out the grace of His prophecy first upon Judea, and afterward to demonstrate it in the breadth of the Gentiles? […]
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
) and there he will have some talk with him. See and admire the condescension of God in conversing thus familiarly with a man, a son of man, a poor captive, nay, with a sinful man, who, when God sent him went in bitterness of spirit, and was at this time out of humour with his work.
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And the hand of the Lord was there upon me,.... At Telabib, Eze 3:
3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
These verses are fitly joined by some translators to the foregoing chapter, as being of a piece with it and a continuation of the same vision. The prophets received the word from God that they might deliver it to the people of God, furnished themselves that they might furnish them with the knowledge of the mind and will of God. Now here the prophet is taught, I.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Arise, go forth into the plain - Into a place remote from observation and noise; a place where the glory of God might have sufficient room to manifest itself, that the prophet might see all its movements distinctly.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
hand of the Lord-- (Eze 1:3). go . . . into the plain--in order that he might there, in a place secluded from unbelieving men, receive a fresh manifestation of the divine glory, to inspirit him for his trying work.
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The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתְּהִ֥י | vatehi | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עָלַ֛י | ʾalai | on me | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| שָׁ֖ם | sham | there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| יַד־ | yad- | [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וַיֹּ֣אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֵלַ֗י | ʾelai | to me | H413 → | 5510 times |
| ק֥וּם | kum | arise | H6965 → | 628 times |
| צֵא֙ | tze' | go out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הַבִּקְעָ֔ה | habikah | the plain | H1237 → | 20 times |
| וְשָׁ֖ם | vesham | and there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| אֲדַבֵּ֥ר | ʾadaber | I will speak | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| אוֹתָֽךְ׃ | ʾotakh | with you | H854 → | 929 times |
וַתְּהִ֥יand it was
vatehiH1961 →3559 times
עָלַ֛יon me
ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times
שָׁ֖םthere
shamH8033 →834 times
יַד־[the] hand of
yad-H3027 →1618 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
אֵלַ֗יto me
ʾelaiH413 →5510 times
ק֥וּםarise
kumH6965 →628 times
צֵא֙go out
tze'H3318 →1067 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הַבִּקְעָ֔הthe plain
habikahH1237 →20 times
וְשָׁ֖םand there
veshamH8033 →834 times
אֲדַבֵּ֥רI will speak
ʾadaberH1696 →1141 times
אוֹתָֽךְ׃with you
ʾotakhH854 →929 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 3:14So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 37:1
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Kings 3:15
But now, bring me a harpist.” And while the harpist played, the hand of the LORD came upon Elisha
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 20:7–9
You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
- Ezekiel 37:1
Through
Ezekiel 37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 8:3
He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Acts 8:39
When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.
- Ezekiel 1:3
the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
- Ezekiel 33:22
Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened…
- Jeremiah 7:32
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead…
- Ezekiel 8:3
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Gregory the Dialogist, Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 12; Hippolytus of Rome, FRAGMENT 9; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel and Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON EZEKIEL 2:3.