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Ezekiel 3:22

The Lord 's power came to me. He said to me, "Get up and go to the valley. I will speak to you in that place."

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Trance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Plain;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Roll;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Plains;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Prophecy;   Revelation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and I will speak with you there.”
Hebrew Names Version
The hand of the LORD was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
King James Version
And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
English Standard Version
And the hand of the Lord was upon me there. And he said to me, "Arise, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you."
New American Standard Bible
Now the hand of the LORD was on me there, and He said to me, "Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you."
New Century Version
Then I felt the power of the Lord there. He said to me, "Get up and go out to the plain. There I will speak to you."
Amplified Bible
The hand of the LORD was on me there, and He said to me, "Arise, go out to the plain, and I will speak to you."
World English Bible
The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the hande of the Lorde was there vpon me, and he said vnto me, Arise, and goe into the fielde, and I will there talke with thee.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The hand of the LORD was on me there, and He said to me, "Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you."
Legacy Standard Bible
And the hand of Yahweh was on me there, and He said to me, "Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you."
Berean Standard Bible
And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, "Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you."
Contemporary English Version
The Lord took control of me and said, "Stand up! Go into the valley, and I will talk with you there."
Complete Jewish Bible
The hand of Adonai came on me there, and he said to me, "Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there."
Darby Translation
And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the valley, and there I will talk with thee.
George Lamsa Translation
And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will talk to you there.
Good News Translation
I felt the powerful presence of the Lord and heard him say to me, "Get up and go out into the valley. I will talk to you there."
Lexham English Bible
And the hand of Yahweh was on me there, and he said to me, "Rise up, go out to the valley, and there I will speak with you."
Literal Translation
And the hand of Jehovah was on me there. And He said to me, Rise up, go forth into the plain, and I will speak with you there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And there came the hode off the LORDE vpon me, and he sayde vnto me: Stonde vp, and go in to the felde, yt I maye there talke with the.
American Standard Version
And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Bible in Basic English
And the hand of the Lord was on me there; and he said, Get up and go out into the valley and there I will have talk with you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the hand of the LORD came there upon me; and He said unto me: 'Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there speak with thee.'
King James Version (1611)
And the hand of the Lord was there vpon me, and he said vnto me; Arise, goe forth into the plaine, and I will there talke with thee.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there came the hand of the Lord vpon me, and he sayd vnto me: Stande vp, and go into the fielde, that I may there talke with thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the hand of the Lord came upon me; and he said to me, Arise, and go forth into the plain, and there shalt thou be spoken to.
English Revised Version
And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the hond of the Lord was maad on me, and he seide to me, Rise thou, and go out in to the feeld, and there Y schal speke with thee.
Update Bible Version
And the hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.
New English Translation
The hand of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, "Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there."
New King James Version
Then the hand of the LORD was upon me there, and He said to me, "Arise, go out into the plain, and there I shall talk with you."
New Living Translation
Then the Lord took hold of me and said, "Get up and go out into the valley, and I will speak to you there."
New Life Bible
The hand of the Lord was upon me there, and He said to me, "Get up, go out to the plain, and I will speak to you there."
New Revised Standard
Then the hand of the Lord was upon me there; and he said to me, Rise up, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came upon me there the hand of Yahweh, - and he said unto me, Arise go forth into the valley, and there, will I speak with thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he said to me: Rise and go forth into the plain, and there I will speak to thee.
Revised Standard Version
And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said to me, "Arise, go forth into the plain, and there I will speak with you."
Young's Literal Translation
And there is on me there a hand of Jehovah, and He saith to me, `Rise, go forth to the valley, and there I do speak with thee.'
THE MESSAGE
God grabbed me by the shoulder and said, "Get up. Go out on the plain. I want to talk with you."

Contextual Overview

22 The Lord 's power came to me. He said to me, "Get up and go to the valley. I will speak to you in that place." 23 So I got up and went out to the valley. The Glory of the Lord was there—as I had seen it by the Kebar Canal. So I bowed with my face to the ground. 24 But the Spirit came into me and lifted me up on my feet. He said to me, "Go home and lock yourself in your house. 25 Son of man, people will come with ropes and tie you up. They will not let you go out among the people. 26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth—you will not be able to talk. So they will not have anyone to teach them that they are doing wrong, because they are always turning against me. 27 But I will talk to you, and then I will allow you to speak. But you must say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.' If a person wants to listen, fine. If a person refuses to listen, fine. But those people always turn against me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the hand: Ezekiel 3:14, Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 37:1

Arise: Ezekiel 8:4, Acts 9:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:9 - talked 2 Kings 3:15 - the hand 1 Chronicles 28:19 - by his hand upon me Ezekiel 8:1 - that the Ezekiel 33:22 - the hand Ezekiel 40:1 - hand

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Now let's make humans who will be like us. They will rule over all the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. They will rule over all the large animals and all the little things that crawl on the earth."
Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.
Genesis 3:5
God knows that if you eat the fruit from that tree you will learn about good and evil, and then you will be like God!"
Genesis 3:6
The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then it was as if their eyes opened, and they saw things differently. They saw that they were naked. So they got some fig leaves, sewed them together, and wore them for clothes.
Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" She said, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Psalms 22:26
Poor people, come eat and be satisfied. You who have come looking for the Lord , praise him! May your hearts be happy forever.
Proverbs 3:18
Wisdom is like a life-giving tree to those who hold on to her; she is a blessing to those who keep her close.
Jeremiah 22:23
"King, you seem so safe in your palace of cedar. It's as if you live in Lebanon! But when your punishment comes, you will groan. You will be in pain like a woman giving birth!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the hand of the Lord was there upon me,.... At Telabib, Ezekiel 3:15. The Targum interprets "the hand of the Lord" of the spirit of prophecy, which remained upon him there; but it seems to design a fresh impulse of the Spirit, a powerful emotion of the split upon his spirit, stirring up to attention to what might be said unto him:

and he said unto me; the same glorious Person, the Lord Christ, described in Ezekiel 1:26;

arise, go forth into the plain; or "the valley" w; the Arabic version renders it, "the desert"; a solitary place, free from noise and hurry, and from the company and conversation of men; and so more fit for retirement and contemplation, and for attention to divine orders. What plain this was is not certain; Kimchi thinks it was the plain in which Babel was built, and where the Lord showed the prophet what he had in his providence done in this place formerly, in confounding the languages of men, and causing their devices to cease;

and I will there talk with thee; when alone, sedate, and composed; so God sometimes brings his people into a low and humble state and condition, into the valley of humility, and there grants them communion with himself; see Hosea 2:14; perhaps the allusion to a custom among the Jews of revealing secrets to others in fields and deserts, and such like solitary places; see Genesis 31:4 x.

w אל הבקעה "in istam convallem", Junius Tremellius, Polanus, "in vallem", Vatablus, Coeceius "in vallem, quasi fissum locum", Starckius. x Vid. Menasseh Ben Israel, Spes Israelis, p. 110.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 3:22. Arise, go forth into the plain — Into a place remote from observation and noise; a place where the glory of God might have sufficient room to manifest itself, that the prophet might see all its movements distinctly.


 
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