THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL _Chronological Notes relative to the commencement of_ _Ezekiel's prophesying_ -Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3409. -Year of the Jewish era o...
THE THIRTIETH YEAR - being closely connected with as I, is rather in favor of considering this a personal date. It is not improbable that Ezekiel was called to his office at the age prescribed in the...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. PREDICTIONS BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM A. judgment Predictions Concerning Jerusalem (1-24) Chapter S 1:1-3:14 The Vision of Glory and the Call of the Prophet _ 1. The...
EZEKIEL 1-3. EZEKIEL ENTERS UPON HIS MINISTRY. Ezekiel 1:1. Ezekiel's Vision. Ezekiel 1:1. Like the prophets generally, Ezekiel enters upon his ministry only after he has had a vision of God and a ca...
EZEKIEL. In Hebrew. _Y heze el yehazzek- el =_ El is strong, or El strengthens (compare Israel, Genesis 32:28). OF THE FOUR GREATER PROPHETS, Ezekiel and Daniel (who prophesied in Babylonia) are comp...
FIRST DIVISION, CH. 1 24, PROPHECIES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KINGDOM First Section. Ch. 1 3:21 The section consists of two divisions: First, Ch. 1 inaugural vision of Jehovah; second, Ch. 2 3:21,...
IN THE THIRTIETH YEAR, &C.— Archbishop Usher, Prideaux, Calmet, and others, are of opinion, that these thirty years are to be reckoned from the time when Josiah, and all the people of Judah, entered i...
CHAPTER TWO EZEKIEL'S INAUGURAL VISION 1:1-28 Before a prophet could speak to others, God had to speak to him. A special call vision catapulted the apprentice priest Ezekiel into the prophetic minist...
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of G...
1:1 (c-0) (The title of this book, 'Ezekiel'), Meaning, 'Strength of God.' captives (d-25) Lit. 'captivity.'...
THE THIRTIETH YEAR] The reference of the number is uncertain. Suggested explanations are, (1) that Ezekiel's age is meant; (2) that the reckoning is from some recent era, such as Josiah's reformation...
§ 1. EZEKIEL'S CALL AND CONSECRATION AS A PROPHET (EZEKIEL 1-3) Date, June-July, 592 b.c. Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by means of a vision of God's glory (Ezekiel...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THIS BOOK 1. HISTORY After the death of King Solomon, the *I...
THE THIRTIETH YEAR. — On this date see Introduction, § 4. It may be added here that the concurrence of the “fifth day of the month” in connection with this epoch, and with that of Jehoiachin’s captivi...
וַ יְהִ֣י ׀ בִּ שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֗ה בָּֽ †...
THE VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD Ezekiel 1:1 IT might be hazardous to attempt, from the general considerations advanced in the last two Chapter s, to form a conception of Ezekiel's state of mind during...
A VISION OF GOD'S MAJESTY Ezekiel 1:1-21 A dark storm-cloud approaches the prophet, from which an incessant blaze of lightning scintillated. As it drew near, the forms of four living creatures became...
The Book opens with the account of the prophet's preparation, and falls into two sections, the first describing the visions he saw, and the second the voice he heard. Verses Eze 1:2-3 in this chapter...
Now it came to pass in the (a) thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the captives by the river of (b) Chebar, [that] the heavens were opened, and I s...
And is either superfluous, as at the beginning of most of the sacred books, (Calmet) or shews the connection of what is written with what the prophet saw or heard internally. (St. Augustine, in Psalm...
Let the Reader call to mind, through the whole of this prophecy, the state in which the Prophet as well as the Church was, at the time of those visions with which he was favoured. God's people are pec...
CONTENTS The Chapter opens with an account of the time and place of Ezekiel's prophecy. Some remarkable visions the Prophet describes, with which he was favoured....
We see that the Prophet was called to the office of a Teacher in the fifth year after Jehoiachin had voluntarily surrendered himself to the king of Babylon, (2 Kings 24:15); and had been dragged into...
In chapter 1 we find a date which refers to the year of Josiah's passover, but with what intent I do not know. It has been thought that the thirty years relate to the jubilee. On this point I cannot s...
NOW IT CAME TO PASS IN THE THIRTIETH YEAR,.... Either from the last jubilee, as R. Joseph Kimchi r, Jarchi, and Abendana; or from the time that the book of the law was found by Hilkiah the priest s; s...
_Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the captives by the river of Chebar, [that] the heavens were opened, and I saw visi...
_Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year_ It is very uncertain from whence this computation of time commences. But the most probable opinion seems to be that which the Chaldee paraphrast, Archbishop...
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, either of the Prophet's life or of some period or era which can no longer be definitely determined, IN THE FOURTH MONTH, IN THE FIFTH DAY OF THE MONTH, AS I...
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES...
CAPTIVES: _ Heb._ captivity...
1-14 It is a mercy to have the word of God brought to us, and a duty to attend to it diligently, when we are in affliction. The voice of God came in the fulness of light and power, by the Holy Spirit...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 1 The time of Ezekiel's prophecy by the river Chebar, EZEKIEL 1:1 . His vision of four cherubims, and four wheels, EZEKIEL 1:4 , and of the glory of God above them, EZEKIEL 1:26 . N
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‘Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives (literally ‘the captivity') by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened an...
CONTENTS: Vision of the glory. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Christ, Ezekiel, Jehoiachin, (Ezekiel 1:26). CONCLUSION: While no man has seen God at any time, many have had visions of Him, displays of...
Ezekiel 1:1. _In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, and fifth day of the month._ The Jews were accustomed to reckon time from great and auspicious events, as the call of Abraham, the exodus from...
_The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God._ GOD’S CARE OF HIS CHURCH 1. God is not tied to places. He can in a dungeon, in a prison, in a Babylon, let down His Spirit into the heart of any...
I.—THE DIVINE CALL OF EZEKIEL. CHAPS 1–3, 15 1. THE DESIGNATION OF THE PROPHET TO HIS WORK (Chap. Ezekiel 1:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 1:1. “NOW,” the usual Hebrew connective particle, united to a...
EXPOSITION For the life of the prophet prior to the vision which this chapter relates, and which constituted his call to that office, see Introduction. EZEKIEL 1:1 NOW; literally, _and. _The use of...
Shall we turn at this time to the prophecy of Ezekiel. Ezekiel said, It came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month (Ezekiel 1:1), So that would be July th...
2 Corinthians 12:1; Acts 10:11; Acts 10:3; Acts 7:56; Acts 9:10;...
Thirtieth year — From the finding the book of the law in the eighteenth year of Josiah, from which date to the fifth year of the captivity are thirty years. Fifth day — Probably it was the sabbath — d...