Was upon me ... was opened - For was read “had been.” The prophet was under the hand of God in ecstatic trance on the evening preceding the arrival of the messenger, and continued in this state until his arrival.
Verse Ezekiel 33:22. _MY MOUTH WAS OPENED_] They had now the fullest evidence that I had spoken from the Lord. I therefore spoke freely and fully what God delivered to me, Ezekiel 24:27....
II. PREDICTIONS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (33-48) Chapter S 33-34 A. The Watchman, the False Shepherds, and the True Shepherd _ 1. The renewed call of Ezekiel as watchman (Ezekiel 33:1) _...
NEED OF A DEEPENED SENSE OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (EZEKIEL 33), and this alike for himself and his hearers. EZEKIEL 33:1. He feels that he is responsible for them, and that they are responsible for...
THE EVENING. Doubtless, of the same day of his escape. he that was escaped. As foretold in Ezekiel 24:26. MY MOUTH WAS OPENED. Compare Ezekiel 24:27; Ezekiel 29:21, i.e. in prophecy. NO MORE DUMB: i....
Though the date is inserted here, it is probably to be understood as applicable to the whole chapter, for Ezekiel 33:1 the prophet is commanded to speak publicly to the children of his people. In the...
Fugitives from Judaea arrive among the exiles announcing that the city had fallen. This confirmation of all the prophet's anticipations, which the exiles had received with so much incredulity, opened...
C. The Fall of Jerusalem and Further Prophecies 33:21-29 TRANSLATION (21) And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, the tenth month, the fifth day of the month, the fugitive from Jerus...
Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. TH...
33:22 he (c-20) Or 'it,' referring to 'hand.' coming (d-27) Or 'until he should come;' cf. ch. 24.26,27....
WAS] RV 'had been.' Ezekiel had come under the power of divine inspiration the previous evening, when the truths in Ezekiel 33:1 had shaped themselves in his mind. The prophecy against the wicked surv...
THE PROPHET, THE SURVIVORS, AND THE EXILES In Ezekiel 24:27 it was announced to Ezekiel that the silence which began with his wife's death and the siege of Jerusalem would be ended when fugitives from...
§ 1. THE RESTORATION (EZEKIEL 33-39) After an introductory passage (Ezekiel 33:1), and two short prophecies against the wicked survivors of Jerusalem and the careless exiles (Ezekiel 33:21), this sect...
WAS UPON ME. — The sentence becomes clearer by translating this in the _pluperf.: The hand of the Lord had been_ (_already_)_ upon me. _...
וְ יַד ־יְהוָה֩ הָיְתָ֨ה אֵלַ֜י בָּ †...
THE PROPHET A WATCHMAN Ezekiel 33:1 ONE day in January of the year 586 the tidings circulated through the Jewish colony at Tel-abib that "the city was smitten." The rapidity with which in the East in...
Ezekiel next delivered a series of messages concerning the chosen nation. The first message described the function and responsibilities of the prophet under the figure of a watchman. In the day of dan...
Now the (k) hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, before he that had escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my (l) mouth was opened, and I was no more du...
By comparing what the Prophet Jeremiah, in his history of the Church hath recorded, with what is here written, we discover that it was a whole year, and more, from the destruction of Jerusalem to Ezek...
In chapter 33, in view of these judgments, which put His people on entirely new ground (for they were judged as Loammi, with the nations, and this is why the prophecy can look on to the last days, alt...
NOW THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON ME IN THE EVENING, AFORE HE THAT WAS ESCAPED CAME,.... The prophet felt a divine impulse on his mind; he was under the influence of a spirit of prophecy, and knew bef...
Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb. Ver....
_Now the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening_ I felt a sensible impulse of the prophetic spirit: see Ezekiel 1:3. _And had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning_ Had so influence...
Now, the hand of the Lord was upon me in the evening, causing a kind of ecstasy to fall upon him, AFORE HE THAT WAS ESCAPED CAME AND HAD OPENED MY MOUTH, which had formerly been closed, UNTIL HE CAME...
THE RELATION OF THE PEOPLE TO EZEKIEL...
21-29 Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in the peculiar blessings to true believers, while their conduct...
THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS UPON ME; the powerful influence of the prophetic Spirit inspired me, and prepared me for what followed. HAD OPENED MY MOUTH; not that the prophet was dumb through impotence an...
Ezekiel 33:22 hand H3027 LORD H3068 evening H6153 before H6440 came H935 (H8800) escaped H6412 opened H6605 ...
‘Now the hand of Yahweh had been on me in the evening before he who had escaped came, and he had opened my mouth by the time he came to me in the morning, and my mouth was opened and I was no more dum...
CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for the captivity. Rebuke to those who are not sincere in their professions. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Abraham. CONCLUSION: God warns sinners of the wrath to come that...
Ezekiel 33:2. _If the people of the land take a man and set him for their watchman;_ and if he be asleep, and blow not the trumpet when the invading army approaches, all are agreed that he ought to di...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:1 After the Fall of Jerusalem. Following the central collection of foreign-nation oracles, the focus returns to Judah (or “the house of Israel,” as Ezekiel usually calls it)...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:21 This brief report provides the hinge on which the book of Ezekiel 1:1 turns. Ezekiel’s muteness was first encountered in...
EZEKIEL’S COMMISSION RENEWED (Chap. 33) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 33:2. “SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE.” “The prophet turns from foreign nations to Israel again. The early portion of the chapte...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 33:1 If we may think of Ezekiel as compiling and arranging his own prophecies, we may think of him as returning, with something like a sense of relief, to his own special work as t...
Now as we get into chapter 33 God now begins to instruct those captives who are in Babylon. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if t...
Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 24:26; Ezekiel 24:27; Ezekiel 3:22; Ezekiel 3:26
Opened my mouth — Not that the prophet was utterly dumb before, for he had prophesied against many nations, only he was forbidden to say anything of the Jews, But now the spirit moved him to speak, an...