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THE MESSAGE

Ezekiel 3:16

At the end of the seven days, I received this Message from God :

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;   Prophets;   Thompson Chain Reference - Leaders;   Ministers;   Religious;   Responsibility;   The Topic Concordance - Warning;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Vision;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Roll;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chebar;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Tel-A'bib;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me:
Hebrew Names Version
It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
King James Version
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
English Standard Version
And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me:
New American Standard Bible
Now at the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Century Version
After seven days the Lord spoke his word to me again. He said,
Amplified Bible
At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
World English Bible
It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And at the ende of seuen dayes, the worde of the Lorde came againe vnto me, saying,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Now it happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me saying,
Contemporary English Version
Seven days after I had seen the brightness of the Lord 's glory, the Lord said:
Complete Jewish Bible
After seven days the word of Adonai came to me:
Darby Translation
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
After seven days, the word of the Lord came to me. He said,
George Lamsa Translation
And it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the LORD came upon me, saying.
Good News Translation
After the seven days had passed, the Lord spoke to me.
Lexham English Bible
And then it happened at the end of seven days, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Literal Translation
And it happened at the end of the seven days, even it happened that the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And when the seuen dayes were expyred, the LORDE sayde vnto me:
American Standard Version
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And it came to passe at the end of seuen dayes, that the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the seuen dayes were expired, the Lorde saide vnto me,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And after the seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man,
English Revised Version
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe whanne seuene daies weren passid, the word of the Lord was maad to me, and seide, Sone of man,
Update Bible Version
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New English Translation
At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me:
New King James Version
Now it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Living Translation
After seven days the Lord gave me a message. He said,
New Life Bible
At the end of seven days the Word of the Lord came to me, saying,
New Revised Standard
At the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came unto me saying
Douay-Rheims Bible
And at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Revised Standard Version
And at the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me:
Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven days,

Contextual Overview

16 At the end of the seven days, I received this Message from God : 17"Son of man, I've made you a watchman for the family of Israel. Whenever you hear me say something, warn them for me. If I say to the wicked, ‘You are going to die,' and you don't sound the alarm warning them that it's a matter of life or death, they will die and it will be your fault. I'll hold you responsible. But if you warn the wicked and they keep right on sinning anyway, they'll most certainly die for their sin, but you won't die. You'll have saved your life. 20"And if the righteous turn back from living righteously and take up with evil when I step in and put them in a hard place, they'll die. If you haven't warned them, they'll die because of their sins, and none of the right things they've done will count for anything—and I'll hold you responsible. But if you warn these righteous people not to sin and they listen to you, they'll live because they took the warning—and again, you'll have saved your life."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 1:4 - the word

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:6
When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she'd know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.
Genesis 3:7
Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on"—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.
Genesis 3:8
When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from God.
Genesis 3:9
God called to the Man: "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:10
He said, "I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked. And I hid."
Genesis 3:11
God said, "Who told you you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?"
Genesis 3:12
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"
Genesis 3:16
He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you."
Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass at the end of seven days,.... Some think it was on the sabbath day he had the following declaration made to him, and instructions given him; but this is not certain; nor does it follow, or to be concluded, from such a way of speaking:

that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying; the Targum is,

"the word of prophecy from before the Lord.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord guards both Ezekiel and his countrymen from dwelling exclusively on the national character of his mission. In the midst of the general visitations, each individual was to stand as it were alone before Him to render account of his doings, and to be judged according to his works.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 3:16. I came to them of the captivity — Because the hand of the Lord was strong upon him and supported him, he soon reached the place.

Tel-abib — תל אביב "a heap of corn." So the Vulgate: acervum novarum frugum, "a heap of new fruits." [Syriac] letola chib, "to the hill Chib," or the hill of grief. - Syriac.

Seven days. — Perhaps God kept him all this time without an immediate revelation, that the bitterness and heat of spirit of which he speaks above might be subdued, and that he might speak God's words in God's own Spirit. Had he gone in a better spirit he had probably been employed in his work as soon as he had gained the place of labour.


 
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