Ezekiel 24:18

Amplified Bible

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I was commanded.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. The next morning I did just as I was commanded.

Hebrew Names Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

New American Standard Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

New Century Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. The next morning I did as I had been commanded.

World English Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So I spake vnto the people in the morning, and at euen my wife dyed: and I did in the morning, as I was commanded.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

Berean Standard Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I had been commanded.

Contemporary English Version
One morning, I was talking with the people as usual, and by sunset my wife was dead. The next day I did what the Lord told me,

Complete Jewish Bible
I spoke to the people in the morning, and that evening my wife died. So I did the following morning as I had been ordered.

Darby Translation
—And I spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Easy-to-Read Version
The next morning I told the people what God had said. That evening, my wife died. The next morning I did what God commanded.

George Lamsa Translation
So I spoke of it to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and in the morning of the next day I did as I had been commanded.

Good News Translation
Early in the day I was talking with the people. That evening my wife died, and the next day I did as I had been told.

Lexham English Bible
And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning just as I was commanded.

Literal Translation
And I spoke to the people in the morning. And my wife died in the evening. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So I spake vnto the people bytymes in the mornynge, and at euen my wyfe dyed: then vpon the nexte morow, I dyd as I was comaunded.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

King James Version (1611)
So I spake vnto the people in the morning, and at euen my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So I spake vnto the people betymes in the morning, & at euen my wife dyed: then vpon the next morowe I dyd as I was commaunded.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I spoke to the people in the morning, as he commanded me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded me.

English Revised Version
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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Y spak to the puple in the morewtid, and my wijf was deed in the euentid; and Y dide in the morewtid, as he hadde comaundid to me.

Update Bible Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Webster's Bible Translation
So I spoke to the people in the morning: and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

New English Translation
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning I acted just as I was commanded.

New King James Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and the next morning I did as I was commanded.

New Living Translation
So I proclaimed this to the people the next morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did everything I had been told to do.

New Life Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I was told.

New Revised Standard
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I spake unto the people in the morning, and my wife died in the even, - and I did in the morning, as I had been commanded.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me.

Revised Standard Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

Young's Literal Translation
And I speak unto the people in the morning, and my wife dieth in the evening, and I do in the morning as I have been commanded.

THE MESSAGE
I preached to the people in the morning. That evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I'd been told.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ¹⁶"Son of man, listen carefully, I am about to take away from you the desire of your eyes [your wife] with a single stroke. Yet you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not flow. ¹⁷"Sigh and groan in silence; do not mourn for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet, and do not cover your mustache or eat the bread of [mourners furnished by other] men." ¹⁸So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I was commanded.¹⁹The people said to me, "These things that you are doing—tell us, what do they mean for us?" ²⁰Then I answered them, "The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ²¹'Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind [in Jerusalem] will fall by the sword. ²²'You will do as I [Ezekiel] have done; you shall not cover your mustache nor eat the bread of [mourning brought to you by other] men. ²³'Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will rot away in your sins and you will groan to one another. ²⁴'So Ezekiel will be a sign to you; in accordance with all that he has done you will do. And when this [destruction of the temple] comes, then you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord GOD.'"

Bible Verse Review
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and at: 1 Corinthians 7:29, 1 Corinthians 7:30

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 12:7 - I did so Ezekiel 24:16 - the desire

Cross-References

Genesis 24:8
"If the woman is not willing to follow you [to this land], then you will be free from this my oath and blameless; only you must never take my son back there."

Genesis 24:9
So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

Genesis 24:14
now let it be that the girl to whom I say, 'Please, let down your jar so that I may [have a] drink,' and she replies, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels water to drink'—may she be the one whom You have selected [as a wife] for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness (faithfulness) to my master."

Proverbs 31:26
She opens her mouth in [skillful and godly] wisdom, And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue [giving counsel and instruction].

1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded [united in spirit], sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted [courteous and compassionate toward each other as members of one household], and humble in spirit;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I spake unto the people in the morning,.... Did the duty of his office as a prophet; exhorted and instructed the people, particularly informed them of what had been said to him by the Lord, the evening or night before, concerning the death of his wife, and how he was to behave under such a providence; which he told them of before hand, that, when it came to pass, they might have a further proof of his being a true prophet of the Lord:

and at even my wife died; suddenly, as it was said she should; this shows who is meant by the desire of his eyes, and what by the taking it away;

and I did in the morning as I was commanded; neither moaned, nor sighed, nor wept, nor shed a tear, nor used any of the common ceremonies of mourning, but dressed and ate as at other times, as he was ordered to do; this was the next morning after his wife died. So the Syriac version,

"in the morning of the other day;''

and the Arabic version,

"in the morning of the following day.''

Thus whatever the Lord commands is to be done, though ever so contrary to the customs of men, or to natural inclinations and affections.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The death of Ezekiel’s wife took place in the evening of the same day that he delivered the foregoing prophecy. This event was to signify to the people that the Lord would take from them all that was most dear to them; and - owing to the extraordinary nature of the times - quiet lamentation for the dead, according to the usual forms of mourning, would be impossible.

Ezekiel 24:17

The priest in general was to mourn for his dead (Leviticus 21:1 ff); but Ezekiel was to be an exception to the rule. The “tire” was the priest’s mitre.

Eat not the bread of men - Food supplied for the comfort of the mourners.

Ezekiel 24:23

Pine away - Compare Leviticus 26:39. The outward signs of grief were a certain consolation. Their absence would indicate a heart-consuming sorrow.

Ezekiel 24:27

Ezekiel had been employed four years in foretelling the calamities about to come to pass. He had been utterly disregarded by the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and received with apparent respect but with real incredulity by those in exile. Now until the city had been actually taken, the voice of prophecy should cease, so far as God’s people were concerned. Hence the intervening series of predictions relating to neighboring and foreign nations Ezek. 25–32. After which the prophet’s voice was again heard addressing his countrymen in their exile. This accounts for the apparently parenthetical character of the next eight chapters.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 24:18. 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 Ezekiel 24:21, where the temple is represented to be the desire of his eyes, as his wife was, Ezekiel 24:16.