Ezekiel 3:24
in Ezekiel 3Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said, “Go, shut yourself inside your house.
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ASV
Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.
KJV
Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
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This verse in Ezekiel 3
Commentary
10 notes on this verse(Verse 24.) And I fell upon my face, and the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in, and shut thyself up in the midst of thy house. Unable to bear the weight of the glory of the Lord standing, he fell on his face, so that he could be lifted up by the entering spirit. The spirit stood him upon his feet, and spoke to him, saying: Enter and shut thyself up in the midst of thy house.
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.
This site's exposition
shut yourself inside your house
The Spirit set Ezekiel on his feet again and told him to shut himself inside his house. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown see the shut house as a picture of the city shut up by siege. The signs of chapters 4 to 11 follow from there.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistHomilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 12 · Written before 604.
proposed
"And the spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet." When we humble ourselves before God, when we recognize that we are dust and ashes, when, weighing the weakness of our own condition, we do not maintain a state of rigidity and pride, almighty God lifts us up through His Spirit and sets us upon our feet, so that we who have lain and lie humbly within ourselves from the thought of our weakness may stand upright, as it were upon our feet, in good works afterward. Why is this done to the prophet in a plain, unless to specially designate that the Holy Spirit was also to be given to the elect of the Gentiles, who would first cast down from their state of pride those whom He would take up, and afterward establish them upon their feet, that is, upon good works? As it is said through Paul: "Lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet." "And He spoke to me and said to me: Enter and shut yourself in the midst of your house." What does it mean that the prophet is led out from the midst of the Israelite people to the plain, and afterward called back from the plain to the house, except that the grace of preaching was taken away from the Jewish people and spread abroad in the breadth of the Gentiles? Yet at the end of the world, when the Jews return to faith, the prophet is, as it were, led back to the house, so that preaching may again dwell among his people—preaching which now shines forth among diverse nations as if in a plain. […]
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Then the spirit entered into me,....
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.
Note, Our choice is often made our punishment; and it is a righteous thing with God to remove teachers into corners when they, or their people, or both, grow indifferent to solemn assemblies.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
"Do not go out of thy house till I reveal the future to thee by signs and words," which God does in the following chapters, down to the eleventh. Thus a representation was given of the city shut up by siege [GROTIUS].
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
The spirit - said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house - Hide thyself for the present. The reason is immediately subjoined.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
“Shut” in the privacy of his own chamber he is to receive a message from Yahweh. This “shutting up,” however, and the “bands” (Eze 3:25, used figuratively) were signs of the manner in which Ezekiel’s countrymen would close their ears, hindering him as far as in them lay from delivering the message of the Lord. With this verse commences a series of symbolic actions enjoined to the prophet in order to foretell the coming judgments of Jerusalem Ezek. 4; 5. Generally speaking symbolic actions were either literal and public, or figurative and private. In the latter case they impressed upon the prophet’s mind the truth which he was to enforce upon others by the description of the action as by a figure. Difficulties have arisen, because interpreters have not chosen to recognize the figurative as well as the literal mode of prophesying. Hence, some, who would have all literal, have had to accept the most strange and unnecessary actions as real; while others, who would have all figurative, have had arbitrarily to explain away the most plain historical statement. There may be a difference of opinion as to which class one or other figure may belong; but after all, the determination is not important, the whole value of the parabolic figure residing in the lesson which it is intended to convey.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתָּבֹא־ | vatavo'- | and it came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| בִ֣י | vi | in me | ||
| ר֔וּחַ | ruach | a spirit | H7307 → | 378 times |
| וַתַּעֲמִדֵ֖נִי | vataamideni | and it made stand up me | H5975 → | 521 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| רַגְלָ֑י | raglai | feet my | H7272 → | 247 times |
| וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר | vaydaber | and he spoke | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| אֹתִי֙ | ʾoti | with me | H854 → | 929 times |
| וַיֹּ֣אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֵלַ֔י | ʾelai | to me | H413 → | 5510 times |
| בֹּ֥א | bo' | go | H935 → | 2568 times |
| הִסָּגֵ֖ר | hisager | shut yourself up | H5462 → | 91 times |
| בְּת֥וֹךְ | betokh | in [the] midst of | H8432 → | 418 times |
| בֵּיתֶֽךָ׃ | beitekha | house your | H1004 → | 2046 times |
וַתָּבֹא־and it came
vatavo'-H935 →2568 times
בִ֣יin me
vi
ר֔וּחַa spirit
ruachH7307 →378 times
וַתַּעֲמִדֵ֖נִיand it made stand up me
vataamideniH5975 →521 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
רַגְלָ֑יfeet my
raglaiH7272 →247 times
וַיְדַבֵּ֤רand he spoke
vaydaberH1696 →1141 times
אֹתִי֙with me
ʾotiH854 →929 times
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
אֵלַ֔יto me
ʾelaiH413 →5510 times
בֹּ֥אgo
bo'H935 →2568 times
הִסָּגֵ֖רshut yourself up
hisagerH5462 →91 times
בְּת֥וֹךְin [the] midst of
betokhH8432 →418 times
בֵּיתֶֽךָ׃house your
beitekhaH1004 →2046 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
Daniel 10:19“Do not be afraid, you who are highly precious,” he said. “Peace be with you! Be strong now; be very strong!” As he spoke with me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord,…
it leads to
- Isaiah 35:4
Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
- Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
- Judges 6:23
But the LORD said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”
- Daniel 9:23
At the beginning of your petitions, an answer went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly precious. So consider the message and understand the vision:
- Daniel 10:11–12
He said to me, “Daniel, you are a man who is highly precious. Consider carefully the words that I am about to say to you. Stand up, for I have now been sent to…
- Isaiah 35:4
Through
Ezekiel 37:10So I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet—a vast army.
it leads to
- Revelation 11:11
But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell upon those who saw them.
- Revelation 11:11
Through
Ezekiel 2:2And as He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him speaking to me.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 3:12
Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me: ‘Blessed be the glory of the LORD in His dwelling place!’
- Numbers 11:25–26
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit…
- Ezekiel 3:12
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About Ezekiel
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Gregory the Dialogist, Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 12; 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 and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.