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Wednesday, July 30th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Ezekiel 3:24

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Roll;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;   Fall;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Inspiration;   Parable;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.
Hebrew Names Version
Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.
King James Version
Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
English Standard Version
But the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself within your house.
New American Standard Bible
But the Spirit entered me and set me up on my feet; and He spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house.
New Century Version
Then the Spirit entered me and made me stand on my feet. He spoke to me and said, "Go, shut yourself up in your house.
Amplified Bible
Then the Spirit entered me and made me stand on my feet; He spoke and said to me, "Go, shut yourself up in your house.
World English Bible
Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Spirit entred into me, which set me vp vpon my feete, and spake vnto me, and said to me, Come, and shut thy selfe within thine house.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Spirit then entered me and made me stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself up in your house.
Legacy Standard Bible
The Spirit then entered me and caused me to stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself up in your house.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said: "Go, shut yourself inside your house.
Contemporary English Version
His Spirit took control of me and lifted me to my feet. Then the Lord said: Go back and lock yourself in your house!
Complete Jewish Bible
A spirit entered me and put me on my feet. Then he spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself inside your house.
Darby Translation
And the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spoke with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me and said to me, Go, shut yourself in your house.
Good News Translation
but God's spirit entered me and raised me to my feet. The Lord said to me, "Go home and shut yourself up in the house.
Lexham English Bible
And the Spirit came into me, and it made me stand on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, "Come, shut yourself inside your house,
Literal Translation
And the Spirit entered into me and stood me on my feet and spoke with me. And He said to me, Come, shut yourself within your house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and ye sprete came in to me, which set me vp vpon my fete, and sayde thus vnto me: Go thy waye, and sparre thy selff in thyne house.
American Standard Version
Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.
Bible in Basic English
Then the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and he had talk with me and said to me, Go and keep yourself shut up inside your house.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and He spoke with me, and said unto me: 'Go, shut thyself within thy house.
King James Version (1611)
Then the spirit entred into me, and set me vpon my feet, and spake with me, and said vnto me, Goe shut thy selfe within thine house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the spirite came into me, whiche set me vp vpon my feete, and spake vnto me, and said vnto me: Go thy way, and shut thy selfe in thyne house.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then the Spirit came upon me, and set me on my feet, and spoke to me, and said to me, Go in, and shut thyself up in the midst of thine house.
English Revised Version
Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the spirit entride in to me, and settide me on my feet. And he spak to me, and seide to me, Entre thou, and be thou closid in the myddis of thin hous.
Update Bible Version
Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself inside your house.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.
New English Translation
Then a wind came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord spoke to me and said, "Go shut yourself in your house.
New King James Version
Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and said to me: "Go, shut yourself inside your house.
New Living Translation
Then the Spirit came into me and set me on my feet. He spoke to me and said, "Go to your house and shut yourself in.
New Life Bible
Then the Spirit came into me and made me stand on my feet. And He spoke and said to me, "Go, shut yourself up in your house.
New Revised Standard
The spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me and said to me: Go, shut yourself inside your house.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then the Spirit entered into me, and caused me to stand upon my feet, - and he spake with me and said unto me, Go in shut thyself up, in the midst of thine own house,
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of thy house.
Revised Standard Version
But the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spoke with me and said to me, "Go, shut yourself within your house.
Young's Literal Translation
And come into me doth a spirit, and causeth me to stand on my feet, and He speaketh with me, and saith unto me, `Go in, be shut up in the midst of thy house.
THE MESSAGE
Then the Spirit entered me and put me on my feet. He said, "Go home and shut the door behind you." And then something odd: "Son of man: They'll tie you hand and foot with ropes so you can't leave the house. I'll make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so you won't be able to talk and tell the people what they're doing wrong, even though they are a bunch of rebels.

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 spirit: Ezekiel 2:2, Ezekiel 37:10, Daniel 10:8-10, Daniel 10:19

Go: Ezekiel 4:1-4

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 6:10 - shut up Jeremiah 15:17 - sat alone Jeremiah 31:30 - General Ezekiel 11:5 - the Spirit

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the snake, "No, we can eat fruit from the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:8
During the cool part of the day, the Lord God was walking in the garden. The man and the woman heard him, and they hid among the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:9
The Lord God called to the man and said, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant. And when you give birth to children, you will have much pain. You will want your husband very much, but he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "I commanded you not to eat from that tree. But you listened to your wife and ate from it. So I will curse the ground because of you. You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.
Genesis 3:18
The ground will grow thorns and weeds for you. And you will have to eat the plants that grow wild in the fields.
Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, "Look, the man has become like us—he knows about good and evil. And now the man might take the fruit from the tree of life. If the man eats that fruit, he will live forever."
Exodus 25:2
"Tell the Israelites to bring me gifts. You will accept gifts for me from everyone who is willing to give.
Numbers 22:23
When Balaam's donkey saw the Lord 's angel standing in the road with a sword in his hand, the donkey turned from the road and went into the field. Balaam could not see the angel, so he was very angry at the donkey. He hit the donkey and forced it to go back on the road.
Joshua 5:13
When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him. The man had a sword in his hand. Joshua went to the man and asked, "Are you a friend to our people or are you one of our enemies?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the spirit entered into me,.... Again; the Spirit of God, that was in the wheels and living creatures: see Ezekiel 2:2;

and set me upon my feet; as he had done before, when in the same prostrate condition, Ezekiel 2:2;

and spake with me; either the Spirit that entered into him, and set him upright; or rather the Lord Christ, the glory of the Lord that stood where he was, and appeared to him:

and said unto me, go, shut thyself within thine house: this was not said ironically, but in earnest; and the reason either was, because the people were not fit for reproof and correction, as Jarchi thinks, being a rebellious people; or that the prophet might receive further instructions, and have all the words of his prophecy delivered to him, before he began to prophesy. Some think this shutting up was an emblem of the siege of Jerusalem. It may seem strange that the prophet should be bid to go into the plain, where the Lord promised to talk with him; and this is all that is said to him, to go home, and shut himself up in his house: but it should be observed, that this was not the only thing for which he went into the plain: he was to have, and had, a fresh view of the glory of the Lord, and of the vision he had before, for the further confirmation of him; besides, this moving him from place to place, before he prophesied, might be partly to try his faith, and partly to preserve him from the violence of the people; who, had he delivered his message at once, might have been so provoked, as to have fallen upon him, and destroyed him; as well as to prepare them to receive his prophecies with more respect and reverence, when they saw he did not rashly, and at once, deliver them out to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“Shut” in the privacy of his own chamber he is to receive a message from Yahweh. This “shutting up,” however, and the “bands” (Ezekiel 3:25, used figuratively) were signs of the manner in which Ezekiel’s countrymen would close their ears, hindering him as far as in them lay from delivering the message of the Lord.

With this verse commences a series of symbolic actions enjoined to the prophet in order to foretell the coming judgments of Jerusalem Ezekiel 4:0; Ezekiel 5:0. Generally speaking symbolic actions were either literal and public, or figurative and private. In the latter case they impressed upon the prophet’s mind the truth which he was to enforce upon others by the description of the action as by a figure. Difficulties have arisen, because interpreters have not chosen to recognize the figurative as well as the literal mode of prophesying. Hence, some, who would have all literal, have had to accept the most strange and unnecessary actions as real; while others, who would have all figurative, have had arbitrarily to explain away the most plain historical statement. There may be a difference of opinion as to which class one or other figure may belong; but after all, the determination is not important, the whole value of the parabolic figure residing in the lesson which it is intended to convey.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 3:24. The spirit - said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. — Hide thyself for the present. The reason is immediately subjoined.


 
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