Ezekiel 43:5
in Ezekiel 43Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
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ASV
And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of Jehovah filled the house.
KJV
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
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This verse in Ezekiel 43
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
the Spirit lifted me up
on Ezekiel 43:5-9
The voice names the room “the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet,” where He will dwell forever. Israel's kings defiled His holy name. The command to remove “their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings” is the condition of the dwelling.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
(Chapter 43, verses 1 onwards) \"And he brought me to the gate that faced east. And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his majesty. And I saw a vision like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city. And the vision that I saw was like the vision that I had seen by the river Chebar.
And when, he says, I had fallen, the majesty of the Lord entered the temple through the gate facing east, and immediately the spirit lifted me up (for I could not go on lying down), and he led me into the court of annihilation, for I had fallen outside; and behold, I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east, and I saw the glory of the Lord filling his house, and I heard a voice speaking to me from inside the house.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
So the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court,....
A promise given of the continuance of God's presence with his people upon condition of their return to, and continuance in, the instituted way of worship, and their abandoning idols and idolatry,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The spirit took me up - And, to follow this thought for a moment, how many men has this heavenly Spirit taken up; filled them with his own influence, and sent them to every country, and nation, and tongue, and people, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God, and to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ! What spiritual temples have been raised, beautified, and filled with the glory of God!
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The glory of the Lord filled the house - Compare the marginal reference; Exo 40:34-35.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי | vatisaeni | and it lifted up me | H5375 → | 656 times |
| ר֔וּחַ | ruach | a spirit | H7307 → | 378 times |
| וַתְּבִיאֵ֕נִי | vatevieni | and it brought me | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | into | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הֶֽחָצֵ֖ר | hechatzer | the courtyard | H2691 → | 191 times |
| הַפְּנִימִ֑י | hapenimi | <the> inner | H6442 → | 32 times |
| וְהִנֵּ֛ה | vehineh | and there! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| מָלֵ֥א | male' | it filled | H4390 → | 249 times |
| כְבוֹד־ | khevod- | [the] glory of | H3519 → | 200 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| הַבָּֽיִת׃ | habayit | the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
וַתִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִיand it lifted up me
vatisaeniH5375 →656 times
ר֔וּחַa spirit
ruachH7307 →378 times
וַתְּבִיאֵ֕נִיand it brought me
vatevieniH935 →2568 times
אֶל־into
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הֶֽחָצֵ֖רthe courtyard
hechatzerH2691 →191 times
הַפְּנִימִ֑י<the> inner
hapenimiH6442 →32 times
וְהִנֵּ֛הand there!
vehinehH2009 →843 times
מָלֵ֥אit filled
male'H4390 →249 times
כְבוֹד־[the] glory of
khevod-H3519 →200 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
הַבָּֽיִת׃the house
habayitH1004 →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
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 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.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 3:22
And 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.”
- 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 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 1:3
Through
Ezekiel 8:3He 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…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 11:1
Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- Ezekiel 11:1
Through
Ezekiel 11:24And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me,
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…
- Ezekiel 8:3
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
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; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.