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

In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house. The elders of Judah were sitting before me. There the hand of Adonai fell on me. 2I looked, and behold, a form resembling fire—from the appearance of his waist downward, fire; and from his loins and waist upward, something like the appearance of brightness, as glowing metal. 3Something like the form of a hand stretched out, and took me by the hair of my head. The Ruach lifted me up between the earth and the heaven. He brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court facing north—where the idol that provokes furious jealousy was.

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 1:2In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,
• Ezekiel 20:1On the tenth day of the fifth month of the seventh year, some of the elders of Israel came to seek Adonai. They sat before me.
• Ezekiel 24:1The word of Adonai came to me in the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year saying:
• Ezekiel 26:1On the first day of the month in the eleventh year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
• Ezekiel 29:1On the twelfth day of the tenth month of the tenth year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
• Ezekiel 31:1On the first day of the third month of the eleventh year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
• Ezekiel 32:17On the fifteenth day of the month in the twelfth year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
• Ezekiel 40:1In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day—the hand of Adonai was on me, and He brought me there.
• Ezekiel 14:1Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.
• Ezekiel 33:31So they come to you, as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words—but they do not do them—for with their mouth they express doting love, but their heart goes after their own dishonest gain.
• Malachi 2:7For a kohen’s lips should guard knowledge, and instruction must be sought from his mouth. For he is a messenger of Adonai-Tzva’ot.
• Acts 20:33I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.
• Ezekiel 1:3the word of Adonai came to Ezekiel the kohen, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar. (The hand of Adonai was upon him there.)
• Ezekiel 3:12Then the Ruach lifted me up. I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake—“Blessed is the glory of Adonai from His place!”—
• Ezekiel 37:1The hand of Adonai was upon me. The Ruach Adonai carried me out and set me down in the middle of the valley. It was full of 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