Ezekiel 3:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Ezekiel 3:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 1:24-25 . A v...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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 ( Ezek...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Then the Spirit took me up - This, as Calmet remarks, has be...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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 giv...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 Acts 8:39 . Ezekiel's abod...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  § 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 ( Ez...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 express...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC COMMISSION Ezekiel 2:1-10 ; Ezekiel 3:1-27 THE call of a prophet and the vision of God which sometimes accompanied it are the two sides of one complex experience. The man w...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 w...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 swe...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 himsel...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  ‘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...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 m...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 visio...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Prophet Ordered to Eat the Roll; Instructions Given to the Prophet; The Prophet's Instructions; Ezekiel's Reluctance to Be a Reprover. B. ...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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; o...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Spirit Carries Him Away ( Ezekiel 3:12-15 ). ‘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 th...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  (3.) RATIFICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION (Chap. Ezekiel 3:4-15 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 3:5-6 . “Of a strange speech and of an hard language.” The marginal reading, deep of lip and heavy of ton...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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;...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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. An...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 o...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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,...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  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 ; Ezekiel 10:4 ; Ezekiel 11:1 ; Ezekiel...

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• Ezekiel 3:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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...

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