So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.
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So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.
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So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
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So I spoke unto the people in the morning, and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 24:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 7:29-30 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, the morning following.
Meaning, the morning following.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 24:18 So I spake unto the people in…
Eze 24:18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Ver. 18. And at even my wife died.] Though a good woman probably, and to the prophet a great comfort, the sweet companion of his life and miseries, yet she died suddenly, and by some extraordinary disease; all things come alike to all.
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And I did in the morning as I was commanded.] Grievous though it were, and went much against the hair with me, yet I did it. Uxorem posthabuit praecepto Dei. Obedience must be yielded to God even in the most difficult duties, and conjugal love must give place to our love to him.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I spake unto the people; told them what God…
I spake unto the people; told them what God had told me, and which I expected would be.
In the morning; it is likely he had this revelation in the night, or evening before, and he tells them betimes in the morning, what God would do in taking away his wife, and what he must not do when she is dead, and to be buried. The next morning after her death he observed God’s command, and without any sign of sorrow or mourning for his great loss.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the people said unto me,.... Either seriously, as…
And the people said unto me,.... Either seriously, as being desirous of knowing what was meant by all this; since they had reason to believe that it was not out of want of affection in Ezekiel to his wife that he so behaved; and therefore there must be some hidden meaning in it, which they should be glad to be informed of: or in a ludicrous manner, deriding the prophet for his conduct, and despising what he meant to instruct them in hereby:
wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so? for they suspected it vas not on his own account, but to signify something to them, that these things were done; and laughing at him, they say, to what purpose are these things done? if you do not tell us for what reason they are done, instruct us by words, and not by actions; these were his fellow captives in Babylon.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain I spake - Told them what I expected would…
I spake - Told them what I expected would be.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 18. At even my wife died] The prophet's…
Verse 18. At even my wife died] The prophet's wife was a type of the city, which was to him exceedingly dear. The death of his wife represented the destruction of the city by the Chaldeans; see Eze 24:21, where the temple is represented to be the desire of his eyes, as his wife was, Eze 24:16.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 18. In the morning — “The next morning.”
18. In the morning — “The next morning.”
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. The death of the prophet’s wife was no…
18. The death of the prophet’s wife was no doubt an actual occurrence. And there is nothing improbable in his demeanour after it, with the view of attracting the attention of his fellow-captives. At the same time his tendency to idealize occurrences precludes absolute certainty.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (18) In the morning: and at even.—What the prophet…
(18) In the morning: and at even.—What the prophet “spake unto the people in the morning” was what he has recorded (Eze_24:3-14). Shortly after this the warning of Eze_24:15-17 must have come to him, and then his Wife died in the evening of the same day. Accordingly, on the following morning the strange conduct which had been commanded him was observed by the people; their curiosity is awakened, and, rightly surmising that there must be some especial significance in the strange doings of their prophet, they come to inquire the meaning of his actions. In reply (Eze_24:20-24), he announces again the destruction of the Temple, and that in the depth of sorrow and trouble at its fall there shall be no outward show of mourning.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So I spake unto the people in the morning,…
So I spake unto the people in the morning, etc. In yet another way the calling of the prophet superseded the natural impulses of the man. He knew that his wife"s hours were numbered, yet the day was spent, not in ministering at her deathbed, but in one last effort to impress the teachings of the time upon the seared consciences and hardened hearts of his countrymen and neighbors. I cannot help referring to the poem "Ezekiel," by B.M., published in 1871, as expressing the meaning of the history better than any commentary.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 In the morning
In the morning
"The next morning"
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