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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 3:14

Spirit — Caught him up into the air. Took — Carried me to the place where the captive Jews were crowded together. Bitterness — Not at all pleased with my work. He went in the heat of his spirit; because of the discouragements he foresaw he should meet with. But the hand of the Lord was strong upon him, not only to compel him to the work, but to fit him for it.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ ר֥וּחַ נְשָׂאַ֖תְנִי וַ תִּקָּחֵ֑נִי וָ אֵ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Spirit, resolved to rebuke (Calmet) sinners. Septuagint, "the spirit of the Lord also lifted me....and I went aloft ( like a meteor; Greek: meteoros) by the impulse of my spirit; for the hand of the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP, AND TOOK ME AWAY,.... Lifted him up from the earth, and carried him through the air: AND I WENT IN BITTERNESS; full of trouble and sorrow, that the Lord was departing from...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _So the spirit lifted me up and took me away Caught me up into the air_, and carried me, (as Philip was carried away from the eunuch,) and brought me to the place where I was to deliver my message, th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So the Spirit lifted me up, placing him into a state of ecstasy, AND TOOK ME AWAY; AND I WENT IN BITTERNESS, IN THE HEAT OF MY SPIRIT, in deep sadness on account of the calamities of which he was requ...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    EZEKIEL AS WATCHMAN...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BITTERNESS: _ Heb._ bitter HEAT OF MY SPIRIT: _ Heb._ hot anger...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SO, Heb. _And_, or then, at that very time. THE SPIRIT, the Spirit of God, as EZEKIEL 3:12, which see. LIFTED ME UP, either from that prostration which the terrible vision had caused when he fell to t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 3:14 Spirit H7307 up H5375 (H8804) away H3947 (H8799) went H3212 (H8799) bitterness H4751 heat...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was strong upon me.' Ezekiel repeats and amplifies his reference to the Spirit...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Ezekiel's commission, continued. Again filled with the Spirit. His dumbness. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Ministers are God's mouth to the children of men, but must not undertake t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _So the Spirit lifted me up._ IN THE UPLIFTED LIFE WE ARE FITTED TO DO THE LORD’S WORK Ezekiel was now strengthened to do a very difficult work. He was to go and speak to a people who had no sympathy...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 3:12-27. EZEKIEL'S ENTRANCE ON HIS MISSION, AND THE FIRST MESSAGE IMPARTED TO HIM. Ezekiel 3:12. _And the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of aloud tumultuous noise, “Ble...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and then go and speak to the house of Israel (Ezekiel 3:1). In other words, devour it and then go give it forth. You see...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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