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Verse Ezekiel 3:12. _THEN THE SPIRIT TOOK ME UP_] This, as _Calmet_
remarks, has been variously understood.
1. An impetuous _wind_ carried him to the place where his brethren
sojourned.
2. The _Holy...
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I HEARD BEHIND ME - The commission having been given, and the prophet
transported to the place of his ministry, the chariot of the vision
passes away with the proper tokens Ezekiel 1:24. A voice from...
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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...
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EZEKIEL 2:8 TO EZEKIEL 3:15. His inspiration is suggestively described
by the symbolical swallowing of a book-roll. In Jer. (Jeremiah 1:9) it
is more immediately conceived as due to the touch of the D...
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SPIRIT. Hebrew roach. App-9. See notes on Ezekiel 8:3.
TOOK ME UP. laid hold of me.
BEHIND ME. Therefore the prophet must have been facing south, as the
glory appeared from the north (Ezekiel 1:4)....
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The Prophet's Particular Mission to the Exiles at Tel Abib
Though Ezekiel's mission, like that of all the prophets, was to the
house of Israel as a whole (Ezekiel 3:5), yet immediately his work lay
a...
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BLESSED BE THE GLORY OF THE LORD FROM HIS PLACE— Whatever place God
honours with his especial presence is equivalent to his temple; and
there the angels always attend upon the Divine Majesty to give h...
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C. Assessment of the Congregation 3:10-15
TRANSLATION
(10) And He said unto me, Son of man, all My words which I shall speak
unto you receive into your heart, and with your ears hear. (11) And go
un...
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Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great
rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.
THE SPIRIT TOOK ME UP. So in . Ezekiel's abode heretofore had...
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§ 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 (Ezekie...
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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_
CHAPTER 3
EZEKIEL EATS THE *SCROLL – EZEKIEL 3:1-3
V1 Then the *Lor...
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THEN THE SPIRIT TOOK ME UP. — This also is to be understood as done
in vision, as in Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 11:1; Ezekiel 11:24. (Comp. Acts
8:39.) In the last case the “taking up” is expressly said to...
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וַ תִּשָּׂאֵ֣נִי ר֔וּחַ וָ אֶשְׁמַ֣ע
אַחֲרַ֔י קֹ֖ול רַ֣עַשׁ גָּדֹ֑ול
בָּר֥וּךְ כְּבֹוד ־יְהוָ֖ה מִ
מְּקֹומֹֽו
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EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC COMMISSION
Ezekiel 2:1; Ezekiel 3:1
THE call of a prophet and the vision of God which sometimes
accompanied it are the two sides of one complex experience. The man
who has truly s...
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THE WATCHMAN'S RESPONSIBILITY
Ezekiel 3:12-27
He was bitter because of his message, but hot because God's fire was
burning within him. It is a blessed thing for preacher, leader, or
Christian worker...
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This roll he was commanded to eat. The writing on the roll was a roll
of lamentations and mourning and woe. The prophet declared that having
eaten the roll, he found it in his mouth "as honey for swee...
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Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great
rushing, [saying], (d) Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from his
place.
(d) By which he signifies that God's glory would not b...
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_Spirit; wind (Hugo) or angel, took me through the air; (Prado.) or, I
went willingly. (St. Jerome) --- Commotion, like an earthquake,
(Hebrew; Septuagint) occasioned by the motion of the chariot, or...
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I beg the Reader to pause again and again, while going through the
very solemn service of Ezekiel's ordination. What an idea doth it
awaken in the mind of its importance. Though the Lord Jesus himself...
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_‘AD MAJOREM GLORIAM DEI’_
‘I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be
the glory of the Lord!’
Ezekiel 3:12
I. HOW OPPORTUNE THIS WAS!—The prophet was to be sent on an
unwelc...
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The Prophet again affirms what we have formerly seen, that God had
worked upon his mind by the secret instinct of his own Spirit.
Although, therefore, God had exhorted him to fortitude, yet the
Prophe...
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The Lord testifies that Israel is even more hardened than any of the
heathen nations. The people are "impudent and hard-hearted." It needed
that Ezekiel should have his forehead made as hard as adaman...
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THEN THE SPIRIT TOOK ME UP,.... Not the wind, nor an angel, but the
Spirit of God; who took up the prophet from the ground, from the place
where he was, among the captives by the river Chebar, and had...
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Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great
rushing, [saying], Blessed [be] the glory of the LORD from his place.
Ver. 12. _Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me,...
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_Go to them of the captivity_ Namely, those made captives with thyself
in the reign of King Jehoiachin. _Then the spirit took me up_ Carried
me from the place where I was before, when I saw the vision...
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Then the Spirit took me up, so that he would at once be placed into a
position where he might perform the work of his calling, AND I HEARD
BEHIND ME A VOICE OF A GREAT RUSHING, a tumultuous noise, SAY...
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12-21 This mission made the holy angels rejoice. All this was to
convince Ezekiel, that the God who sent him had power to bear him out
in his work. He was overwhelmed with grief for the sins and miser...
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THE SPIRIT; the Spirit of God, which governed the wheels and the
living creatures, EZEKIEL 8:3. TOOK ME UP; either raised him up to
nearer approaches, to see and discern, to hear and learn; or carried...
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Ezekiel 3:12 Spirit H7307 up H5375 (H8799) heard H8085 (H8799) behind
H310 great H1419 thunderous H7494 voice H6963 Blessed H1288 (H8803)
glory H3519 LORD H3068 place H4725
spirit - Ezekiel 3:14, Eze...
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THE SPIRIT CARRIES HIM AWAY (EZEKIEL 3:12).
‘Then the Spirit lifted me up and I heard behind me the voice of a
great commotion. “Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.”
And I heard the noise...
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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...
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Ezekiel 3:3. _The roll was in my mouth as honey._ To taste the good
word of God is pleasant; but it was bitter in the belly with regard to
imprisonment and martyrdom. Revelation 10:9. No matter; the s...
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_Then the Spirit took me up._
THE LIGHT OF GOD RECONCILES THE DISORDERS OF LIFE
In the light of God the presence of moral disorder can be reconciled
with His superintending goodness and mercy. And as...
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(3.) RATIFICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION (Chap. Ezekiel 3:4)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 3:5. “OF A STRANGE SPEECH AND OF AN
HARD LANGUAGE.” The marginal reading, _deep of lip and heavy of
tongue_, indicat...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 3:1
EAT THAT THOU FINDEST, etc. The iteration of the command of Ezekiel
2:8 seems to imply, like the words, "be not thou rebellious," in that
verse, some reluctance on the prophet'...
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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...
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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 se...
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1 Kings 18:12; 1 Samuel 4:21; 1 Samuel 4:22; 2 Kings 2:16; Acts 2:2;
Acts 8:39; Exodus 40:34; Exodus 40:35; Ezekiel 10:18; Ezekiel 10:19;...
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A voice — An articulate sound, of many angels, attended with the
rushing of the wheels, added to the noise of their wings. Blessed —
Praised be the gloriously holy and just God. His place — Coming dow...