Ezekiel 1:1 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-3

The circumstances of the vision which Ezekiel saw, and in which he received his commission and instructions, are here very particularly set down, that the narrative may appear to be authentic and not romantic. It may be of use to keep an account when and where God has been pleased to manifest himself to our souls in a peculiar manner, that the return of the day, and our return to the place of the altar (Gen. 13:4), may revive the pleasing grateful remembrance of God's favour to us. ?Remember,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year ,.... Either from the last jubilee, as R. Joseph Kimchi F18 Apud R. D. Kimchi in loc. , Jarchi, and Abendana; or from the time that the book of the law was found by Hilkiah the priest F19 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 26. ; so the Targum, which paraphrases the words thus, "and it was in the thirtieth year after Hilkiah the high priest found the book of the law, in the house of the sanctuary, in the court under the porch, in the middle of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 1:1

In the thirtieth year - We know not what this date refers to. Some think it was the age of the prophet; others think the date is taken from the time that Josiah renewed the covenant with the people, 2 Kings 22:3 , from which Usher, Prideaux, and Calmet compute the forty years of Judah's transgression, mentioned 2 Kings 4:6 . Abp. Newcome thinks there is an error in the text, and that instead of בשלשים bisheloshim , in the thirtieth, we should read בחמישית bachamishith , in the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 1:1

Verse 1 We see that the Prophet was called to the office of a Teacher in the fifth year after Jehoiachin had voluntarily surrendered himself to the king of Babylon, (2 Kings 24:15); and had been dragged into exile, together with his mother: for it was, says he, “in the thirtieth year.” The greater part of the Commentators follow the Chaldee Paraphrast, and understand him to date from the finding of the Book of the Law. It is quite clear, flint this year was the eighteenth of king Josiah; but in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1

Now ; literally, and. The use of the conjunction indicates here, as in Jonah 1:1 , that the narrative that follows links itself on to something that has gone before. In Exodus 1:1 and 1 Samuel 1:1 it may point to a connection with the book that precedes it. Here the sequence is subjective. We may think of Ezekiel as retracing the years of his life till he comes to the thirtieth. Then, as it were, he pulls himself up. That must be the starting point of what he has to say. Our English... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1

Exile and captivity. It is not the soil which a people till that makes that people a nation. The Jews have more than once furnished a striking illustration of this principle; for no nation has suffered more from banishment and dispersion, and no nation has more tenaciously clung to its nationality, or more effectively preserved it in circumstances the most unfavourable. It is its religion which makes a people a nation; even more than a common language, a common ancestry, and common... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1

Visions of God. God is; God lives; God everywhere and forever works and manifests himself. But spirit is only apprehensible by spirit. And the created intelligence finds its noblest exercise in tracing the presence and recognizing the attributes of the Supreme. An especial revelation was accorded to the prophets; but one great end of this special revelation doubtless was that by their intermediation and ministry men generally might be encouraged to look upwards, and to behold the gracious... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-3

Introduction respecting the person and mission of the prophet. I. HIS PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS . A real, though sometimes undiscoverable, fitness between the instrument and the task, is an invariable law in the procedure of God. 1 . Mark the significance of his name, "God becomes strength." Most probably the name had originated with God, who had, either secretly or openly, influenced his father Buzi in selecting it. A name, when God-given, is a revelation of what is unique and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-3

The Divine summons to the prophetic mission. "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year," etc. Our text authorizes the following observations. The Divine summons to the prophetic mission - I. WAS ADDRESSED TO EZEKIEL AT A TIME WHICH HE VERY MINUTELY RECORDS . "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity." This statement made with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 1:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 1:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 1:1-28

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