Ezekiel 1:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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 (Daniel 10:10; Daniel 10:18); and John (Revelation 1:17).

Ezekiel 1:3

3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekielb the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.