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 compounded with "El" (App-4. IV); while Isaiah and Jeremiah (who prophesied in the land) are compounded... [ Continue Reading ]
FIFTH YEAR. B.C. 484. Compare 2 Kings 24:12; 2 Kings 24:15, JEHOIACHIN. Called also Jeconiah, and Coniah. Compare 2 Kings 24:17; 2 Kings 25:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. EXPRESSLY. in very deed, or in reality. EZEKIEL. See the Title. THE PRIEST: and called, as Jeremiah was, to the office of prophet as well, THE HAND. Fig, _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. WAS. became. Compare Elijah (1 Kings 18:46); Elisha (2 Kings 3:15); Daniel (Dan... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. WHIRLWIND. Hebrew. _ruach =_ spirit, but it came to be rendered "storm or whirlwind". Note the three symbols of Jehovah's glory, Storm, Cloud, and Fire. Compare Nahum 1:3.Revelation 4:5. OUT OF THE NORTH. See note on Psalms 75:6, and Isaiah 14:13. INFO... [ Continue Reading ]
FOUR LIVING CREATURES. These are "the Cherubim". See App-41. The _zoa of_ Revelation 4:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRAIGHT: i.e. unjointed. The living creatures did not move by walking.... [ Continue Reading ]
HANDS. Hebrew text reads "hand". Some codices, with two early printed editions and Hebrew text margin, read "hands "(plural), followed by Authorized Version and Revised Version. The sing. is to be preferred, and is so rendered in Ezekiel 10:7. Why not here?... [ Continue Reading ]
FACES. See App-41. MAN. Hebrew. _adam_, App-14. STRETCHED UPWARD. divided or spread out from above.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAMPS. the lamp; or, torch (singular) WENT FORTH. kept going forth.... [ Continue Reading ]
RAN AND RETURNED: or kept running and returning. Hebrew is Inf. by _Heterosis_ (of Mood), App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech Asterismes. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And the".... [ Continue Reading ]
TURNED. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "returned".... [ Continue Reading ]
HIGH. In the sense of sublimity.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LIVING CREATURES. the living ones. Compare verses: Ezekiel 1:21; Ezekiel 1:22; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 10:15; Ezekiel 10:20. The four were one.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRMAMENT. expanse, as in Genesis 1:6. STRETCHED FORTH. spread out. ABOVE. upward.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRAIGHT. level.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOISE. Hebrew "voice", as in the next clause. any noise. Articulate speech not mentioned till Ezekiel 1:28 with Ezekiel 2:1. VOICE. noise, as above. THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew. _Shaddai_. App-4. VOICE OF SPEECH. noise of tumult.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. App-14. Compare Daniel 7:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BOW. in the cloud. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 9:16). App-92. The only allusion to it in O.T. after Genesis. In N.T. compare Revelation 4:3; Revelation 10:1. THE GLORY, &c. Compare Ezekiel 3:12; Ezekiel 3:23; Ezekiel 8:4; Ezekiel 9:3; Ezekiel 10:4;... [ Continue Reading ]