In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, very likely the year 575 B. C. in the beginning of the year, which began in spring, in the month Abib, or Nisan, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, that is, after it was taken by the Chaldean invaders, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me and brought me thither, so that he was, in a state of ecstasy, transported to Jerusalem
CHAPTER XL _The prophecy or vision, which begins here, continues to the end_ _of the Book. The Temple of Jerusalem lying in ruins when_ _Ezekiel had this vision, (for its date as the_ fourteenth _y...
IN THE FIRST AND TWENTIETH YEAR - This was the fiftieth year from the 18th of Josiah, the year of his memorable Passover 2 Kings 23:22. See the Ezekiel 1:1 note. If that was a jubilee year, which is h...
Chapter s 40-48. The final nine Chapter s of this book form the climax of the great prophecies of Ezekiel; they belong to the most difficult in the entire prophetic Word. Once more the hand of the Lor...
EZEKIEL 40-48. THE TEMPLE. Ezekiel 40:1. It is worthy of note that the sketch starts with the old familiar phrases the hand of Yahweh was upon me and in the visions of God (_cf._ Ezekiel 1:1). These...
THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH YEAR. See table on p. 1106. THE BEGINNING. Probably Abib or Nisan. THE CITY WAS SMITTEN. The fall of Jerusalem is thus fixed as happening in the eleventh year of the CAPTIVIT...
_our captivity_ that of Jehoiachin, in which the prophet himself had been carried away (b.c. 597). With the exception of ch. Ezekiel 29:17-21, dating from the 27th year (b.c. 570), these Chapter s are...
Ezekiel 40:1-27. The outer gateway and court In the 25th year of Jehoiachin's captivity, which was the 14th year after the fall of the city (b.c. 572), the prophet fell into a prophetic trance (Ezeki...
THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON ME— The temple here described by Ezekiel is, in all probability, the same which he saw before his captivity, and which had been burned by the Chaldeans fourteen years bef...
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN GOD'S FUTURE TEMPLE 40:1-43:12 The Book of Ezekiel ends as it began, with a vision. In Chapter s 1-3 Ezekiel sees a vision illustrating how God had visited His people in Exile; these...
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of t...
THE NEW TEMPLE Ezekiel, transported in vision to Palestine, is set down on the N. side of the Temple mountain, and sees the Temple buildings extending to the S. like a city. A supernatural figure, li...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ ABOUT EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 Terrible events happened in Jerusalem during Ezekiel’s...
Usually people say that a *vision is ‘like a dream’. But what happened to Ezekiel was much more powerful than a dream. Ezekiel emphasises this. He reports that the power of the *Lord came upon him. An...
IN THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH YEAR. — It is the habit of Ezekiel in giving the year to make no mention of the era from which it was reckoned; but in a few important passages (Ezekiel 1:2; Ezekiel 12:21, a...
בְּ עֶשְׂרִ֣ים וְ חָמֵ֣שׁ שָׁנָ֣ה לְ֠ גָלוּתֵ
THE IMPORT OF THE VISION WE have now reached the last and in every way the most important section of the book of Ezekiel. The nine concluding Chapter s record what was evidently the crowning experienc...
This final section must be studied in relation to all that has immediately preceded it, wherein the spiritual restoration and cleansing of the people had been foretold. The picture of the restored ord...
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the (a) beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was smitten, in the same day the hand of the L...
Month; April 30, the year of the world 3430. (Usher) (Calmet) --- In explaining this last most obscure vision: I. The Jews say it was verified after the captivity. But thus the temple would be four mi...
There is somewhat very striking in the Prophet's method of describing this vision: the hand of the Lord (he saith) was upon him. And certain it is, that whosoever reads this Chapter, and all the remai...
CONTENTS The Prophet is in this, and all the succeeding Chapter s, to the end of his prophecy, wholly dealing in vision. He describes in these visions of God, the appearance of One like the Son of Ma...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 40, 41, 42, AND 43. The remaining part of the prophecy is the establishment of His sanctuary in the midst of His people. The reader will perceive that we find...
IN THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH YEAR OF OUR CAPTIVITY,.... That is, from Jeconiah's captivity, from whence this prophet begins his dates: he calls it our captivity, because he himself was then carried capti...
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth [day] of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of...
_In the five and twentieth year of our captivity_ Of the captivity of those that were carried away with Jehoiachin, eleven years before Jerusalem was taken. _In the beginning of the year_ In the month...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 40 Ezekiel's vision of the model of a city, and of an angel with a line and measuring reed taking the dimensions of the temple, EZEKIEL 40:1. The description of the east gate of the ou...
Ezekiel 40:1 twenty-fifth H6242 H2568 year H8141 captivity H1546 beginning H7218 year H8141 tenth H6218 month H2320
THE NEW TEMPLE (EZEKIEL 40:1 TO EZEKIEL 48:35). The book of Ezekiel began with a vision of the glory of God and the coming of the heavenly chariot throne of God in order to speak directly to His peopl...
THE VISION OF THE NEW TEMPLE (EZEKIEL 40:1 TO EZEKIEL 42:20). The Man With the Measuring Reed (Ezekiel 40:1). ‘In the twenty fifth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, on the tenth da...
CONTENTS: Vision of the man with the measuring reed. The future temple and its service. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, sons of Zadok. CONCLUSION: A great and beautiful temple, framed in detail in the cou...
Ezekiel 40:1. _In the five and twentieth year of our captivity._ When the pious jews were dispirited, the Lord revived them with the hopes of a better temple than that which Solomon had built. This wh...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 40:1 Vision of Restoration. With the last date in the book appearing at Ezekiel 40:1, Ezekiel arrives at the beginning of the end. The book’s fin
THE IDEAL TEMPLE OF THE FUTURE (Chap. 40) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 40:1. “IN THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH YEAR.” The fiftieth year from the 18th of Josiah, the year of his memorable passover (2 Kings 22:1...
EXPOSITION The magnificent temple-vision, as it is usually styled, a description of which forms the closing section of this book (Ezekiel 40-48.), was the last extended" word" communicated to the prop...
CHAPTER 40:1-48. THE POSITION, WALLS, GATES, AND COURTS OF THE TEMPLE. IT is not our purpose to go into greater length on the details of this closing vision, than is absolutely necessary to convey a...
We want to get into the study of Ezekiel tonight, and right off the top I would like to confess to you that of all of the Bible and the passages in the Bible, I understand this the least. I do not pre...
2 Kings 25:1; Exodus 12:41; Ezekiel 1:2; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 11:24;...
Of our captivity — Of those that were carried away into captivity with Jeconiah eleven years before Jerusalem was burnt. And this falls in with the three thousand three hundred and seventy fourth year...
How can these prophecies be understood literally when the NT declares that the sacrificial system has been abolished by Christ’s death? PROBLEM: Ezekiel seems to predict that, in the messianic period,...