Ezekiel 8:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the spirit. Probably an angel. See below. Heb, ruach. App-9.

me. Emph.: i.e. Ezekiel himself, as Philip. Compare 1 Kings 18:12; 2 Kings 2:16; Acts 8:39; 2 Corinthians 12:2; 2 Corinthians 12:4.Revelation 1:10; Revelation 4:2; Revelation 17:3. Rev 17:21, Revelation 17:10. Compare Ezekiel 11:24; Ezekiel 11:25; Ezekiel 40:2; Ezekiel 40:3.

the visions of God: i, e. the visions given him by God. The Genitive of Origin (App-17.)

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

to Jerusalem: i.e. to the actual city itself, not. vision of it.

door. entrance.

jealousy. Pat by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, for the effect produced by it, as explained in the next clause. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:16). App-92. Elsewhere only in 2 Chronicles 33:7; 2 Chronicles 33:15.

provoketh to jealousy. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:5 Deuteronomy 32:16), App-92.

Ezekiel 8:3

3 And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.