Ezekiel 8:1

Ezekiel 8:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.
• New International Version (NIV)In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign Lord came on me there.
• English Standard Version (ESV)In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell upon me there.

Context of Ezekiel 8:1

Then on September 17, during the sixth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, while the leaders of Judah were in my home, the Sovereign Lord took hold of me. 2I saw a figure that appeared to be a man. From what appeared to be his waist down, he looked like a burning flame. From the waist up he looked like gleaming amber. 3He reached out what seemed to be a hand and took me by the hair. Then the Spirit lifted me up into the sky and transported me to Jerusalem in a vision from God. I was taken to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the Temple, where there is a large idol that has made the Lord very jealous.

Ezekiel 8:1 word by word

וַיְהִ֣י׀ בַּשָּׁנָ֣ה הַשִּׁשִּׁ֗ית בַּשִּׁשִּׁי֙ בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֣ה לַחֹ֔דֶשׁ אֲנִי֙ יוֹשֵׁ֣ב בְּבֵיתִ֔י וְזִקְנֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה יוֹשְׁבִ֣ים לְפָנָ֑י וַתִּפֹּ֤ל עָלַי֙ שָׁ֔ם יַ֖ד אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהֹוִֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And it came to pass in the sixthשִׁשִּׁיshishshîy · sixthH8345
• yearשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
• in the fifthחָמֵשׁchâmêsh chămishshâh · fiveH2568
• of the monthחֹ֫דֶשׁchôdesh · monthH2320
• I satיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• in mine houseבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004
• and the eldersזָקֵןzâqên · old: elderH2205
• of Judahיְהוּדָהyehûdâh · JudahH3063
• beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• me, that the handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
• of the Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• Godיְהֹוִהyehôvih · YHWH/GodH3069
• fellנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307

Cross-references for Ezekiel 8:1

• Ezekiel 1:2This happened during the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity.
• Ezekiel 20:1On August 14, during the seventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, some of the leaders of Israel came to request a message from the Lord. They sat down in front of me to wait for his reply.
• Ezekiel 24:1On January 15, during the ninth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:
• Ezekiel 26:1On February 3, during the twelfth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:
• Ezekiel 29:1On January 7, during the tenth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:
• Ezekiel 31:1On June 21, during the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the Lord:
• Ezekiel 32:17On March 17, during the twelfth year, another message came to me from the Lord:
• Ezekiel 40:1On April 28, during the twenty-fifth year of our captivity—fourteen years after the fall of Jerusalem—the Lord took hold of me.
• Ezekiel 14:1Then some of the leaders of Israel visited me, and while they were sitting with me,
• Ezekiel 33:31So my people come pretending to be sincere and sit before you. They listen to your words, but they have no intention of doing what you say. Their mouths are full of lustful words, and their hearts seek only after money.
• Malachi 2:7“The words of a priest’s lips should preserve knowledge of God, and people should go to him for instruction, for the priest is the messenger of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
• Acts 20:33“I have never coveted anyone’s silver or gold or fine clothes.
• Ezekiel 1:3(The Lord gave this message to Ezekiel son of Buzi, a priest, beside the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians, and he felt the hand of the Lord take hold of him.)
• Ezekiel 3:12Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me. (May the glory of the Lord be praised in his place!)
• Ezekiel 37:1The Lord took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the Lord to a valley filled with bones.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 8:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1In the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month - This, according to Abp. Usher, was the sixth year of Ezekiel's captivity. The sixth day of the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year, which answers to August A.M. 3410. This chapter and the three following contain but one vision, of which I judge it necessary, with Calmet, to give a general idea, that the attention of the reader may not be too much divided. The prophet, in the visions…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1The elders of Judah - The prophet‘s fellow-exiles are no longer unwilling to hear him Ezekiel 2:1-10. They sat as mourners. The message here is not as in Ezekiel 6:2, but distinctly to Judah, that portion of the people whose exile Ezekiel shared.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The idolatries committed by the Jewish rulers. (Ezek 8:1-6) The superstitions to which the Jews were then devoted, the Egyptian. (Ezek 8:7-12) The Phoenician. (Ezek 8:13,14) The Persian. (Ezek 8:15,16) The heinousness of their sin. (Ezek 8:17,18) Verses 1-6 The glorious personage Ezekiel beheld in vision, seemed to take hold upon him, and he was conveyed in spirit to Jerusalem. There, in the inner court of the temple, was prepared a place for some base…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1We are now in the sixth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity (see study note on Ezekiel 1:2). Fourteen months have passed since Ezekiel first saw his opening vision. During most of that time, the prophet had been acting out the sign acts described in Ezekiel 4. These were symbolic actions that showed what would happen to Jerusalem. Ezekiel 8–9 describes, in visions, the same defilement (moral and spiritual uncleanness) and judgment of Jerusalem that…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-18Eze 8:1-18. This eighth chapter begins a new stage of Ezekiel's prophecies and continues to the end of the eleventh chapter. The connected visions at Eze 3:12-7:27 comprehended Judah and Israel; but the visions (Eze 8:1-11:25) refer immediately to Jerusalem and the remnant of Judah under Zedekiah, as distinguished from the Babylonian exiles. 1. sixth year--namely, of the captivity of Jehoiachin, as in Eze 1:2, the "fifth year" is specified. The lying on…Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings