Ezekiel 44:2 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 44:2

And the LORD said to me, “This gate is to remain shut. It shall not be opened, and no man shall enter through it, because the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered through it. Therefore it will remain shut.

BSB

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ASV

And Jehovah said unto me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

KJV

Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

For before the Savior assumed a human body and humbled himself, taking on the form of a servant, the Law and the Prophets, and all the knowledge of the Scriptures, were closed, and paradise was closed.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Then said the Lord unto me, this gate shall be shut,.... In time to come, as Jarchi interprets it, in the latter day; it was shut, and it should continue to be shut: it shall not be opened; any more; though it has been, yet hereafter no more: and no man shall enter in by it, into the house of the Lord, because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it; the same with the glory of the God of Israel, Eze 43:2, therefore it shall be shut; no one being to enter after him.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But such an account is given of this gate's being shut as puts honour, 1. It is for the honour of him that the gate of the inner court, at which his glory entered when he took possession of the house, was ever after kept shut, and no man was allowed to enter in by it,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

This gate shall be shut - It was not to be opened on ordinary occasions, nor at all on the week days: but only on the Sabbaths and the new moons. See the account of the gates (4) in the explanation of the plan. This verse has been adduced by the Roman Catholics to prove the perpetual virginity of the mother of our Lord; and it may be allowed to be as much to the purpose as any other that has been brought to prove this very precarious point, on which no stress should ever be laid by any man.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֵלַ֜י	'e.Lai	to me	H413 →
יְהוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
הַשַּׁ֣עַר	ha.Sha.'ar	the gate	H8179 →
הַזֶּה֩	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
סָג֨וּר	sa.Gur	shut	H5462 →
יִהְיֶ֜ה	yih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יִפָּתֵ֗חַ	yi.pa.Te.ach	it will be opened	H6605 →
וְאִישׁ֙	ve.'Ish	and anyone	H376 →
לֹא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יָ֣בֹא	Ya.vo'	he will go	H935 →
ב֔וֹ	vo	in it
כִּ֛י	ki	for	H3588 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֵֽי־	'e.lo.hei-	[the] God of	H430 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
בָּ֣א	ba'	he has gone	H935 →
ב֑וֹ	vo	in it
וְהָיָ֖ה	ve.ha.Yah	and it will be	H1961 →
סָגֽוּר׃	sa.Gur	shut	H5462 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 24:10
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
leads to
- John 1:18
  No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
- Ezekiel 10:1
  And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
- Genesis 32:30
  So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
- Exodus 33:20
  But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
- Exodus 33:23
  Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezekiel