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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 1:1-14

1-14 It is a mercy to have the word of God brought to us, and a duty to attend to it diligently, when we are in affliction. The voice of God came in the fulness of light and power, by the Holy Spirit. These visions seem to have been sent to possess the prophet's mind with great and high thoughts of God. To strike terror upon sinners. To speak comfort to those that feared God, and humbled themselves. In ver. Ezekiel 1:4-14, is the first part of the vision, which represents God as attended and... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Ezekiel 1:1-14

The Four Living Creatures v. 1. Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, either of the Prophet's life or of some period or era which can no longer be definitely determined, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, for, having been led into captivity with Jehoiachin, he settled near this stream, which may have been one of the large irrigation ditches of the Euphrates Valley, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ezekiel 1:1-28

A. FIRST PRINCIPAL PART.—Ezekiel 1:24THE PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT_________I. THE DIVINE MISSION OF EZEKIEL.—Ezekiel 1:1 to Ezekiel 3:11 1. The Vision of Glory (Ch. 1)It has been customary, as at Isaiah 6:0 and Jeremiah 1:0, so also here, to read Ezekiel’s call to be a prophet as if it were his ordination or consecration to office. But even in the case of Isaiah 6:0., where the official activity of the prophet does not certainly first begin, but where we find ourselves already in the midst of his... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-21

a Vision of God’s Majesty Ezekiel 1:1-21 A dark storm-cloud approaches the prophet, from which an incessant blaze of lightning scintillated. As it drew near, the forms of four living creatures became visible, combining, under various figures, intelligence, strength, patience, and soaring aspiration. The wheels were evidently symbolical of the cycles of divine providence, which cooperate with the ministers of the divine will. The slab of blue expanse supported a human semblance, suggestive of... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 1:1-28

The Book opens with the account of the prophet's preparation, and falls into two sections, the first describing the visions he saw, and the second the voice he heard. Verses Eze 1:2-3 in this chapter, which are really parenthetical, may be treated as a title page. This gives the date, states that the word came expressly to him, and indicates the place in which he saw the visions and heard the voice. The visions were inclusively visions of God. They proceeded in four manifestations. The first... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 1:4

The Juggernaut of God (Ezekiel 1:4-28 ). ‘And I looked, and behold a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire enfolding itself (or ‘flashing continually’), and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as the colour of amber out of the midst of the fire.’ He describes the scene in terms of a great storm, with the stormy wind, the great cloud and the constantly flashing lightning. But there was an added extra for there was something in the midst of this storm... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 1:1-28

Ezekiel 1-3. Ezekiel Enters upon his Ministry. Ezekiel 1:1-Hosea : . Ezekiel’ s Vision. Ezekiel 1:1-Leviticus : . Like the prophets generally, Ezekiel enters upon his ministry only after he has had a vision of God and a call from Him. The book, therefore, appropriately opens with a description of these experiences. They took place “ in the thirtieth year”— a difficult phrase: perhaps the thirtieth year of the prophet’ s life— in any case in 592 B.C., the fifth year after Jehoiachin and the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 1:4

I looked; I did very diligently survey the things that were represented to me in the vision. Behold: this calls us to consider what he had seen and represented to us. A whirlwind; a mighty, stormy, and turbulent wind, a wind that bears away or bears down all before it; this denotes the indignation and judgments of God, a quick, impetuous, and irresistible vengeance. Most grievous judgments, represented as here, so 1 Kings 19:11; Job 38:1; Psalms 104:4. Came; came as if it knew its way, and,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 1:4-28

2. THE VIEW GIVEN TO EZEKIEL OF “THE LIKENESS OF THE GLORY OF THE LORD” (Chap. Ezekiel 1:4-28)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 1:4. The storm-cloud. “A whirlwind,” a tempest such as Job perceived (Ezekiel 38:1), or like that which Jonah encountered (Ezekiel 2:10), “came out of the north,” the region from which the Chaldean forces proceeded, and, in general, to the Jews, “the region pregnant with destiny” (Hengst.). “A great cloud, and a fire infolding itself.” Fire in volumes was mixed up with the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-28

Shall we turn at this time to the prophecy of Ezekiel.Ezekiel said,It came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month ( Ezekiel 1:1 ),So that would be July the fifth. It would be probably the thirtieth year of Ezekiel's life, when he was thirty years old.as he was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God ( Ezekiel 1:1 ).Ezekiel was taken to Babylon in the second captivity at the time when Jehoiachin... read more