Ezekiel Chapter 3 verse 16 Holy Bible
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
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And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven days,
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) At the end of seven days.--A fresh Divine communication comes to the prophet, designed especially to impress upon him the responsibility of his office (Ezekiel 3:16-21). In Ezekiel 33:1-20 the same charge is repeated with some amplification, and there Ezekiel 3:2-6 are taken up with describing the duties of the military sentinel, upon which both these figurative addresses are founded. The language is there arranged in the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, to which there is indeed an approach here, but too imperfect to be easily represented in English. What is said there, moreover, is expressly required to be spoken to the people (Ezekiel 3:1), while this seems to have been immediately for the prophet's own ear.The substance of the communication in either place is this: man must in all cases live or die according to his own personal righteousness or sinfulness; but such a responsibility rests upon the watchman, that if he die unwarned his blood will be required at the watchman's hand. The responsibility extends only, however, to the giving of the warning, not to its results: when the warning is given the watchman has "delivered his soul," whether it is heeded or not. The word soul in Ezekiel 3:19; Ezekiel 3:21, as also in Ezekiel 33:5; Ezekiel 33:9, is not to be understood distinctively of the immortal part of man, but is equivalent to life, and forms here, as often in Hebrew, little more than a form of the reflective, thy soul = thyself. . . . Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewAt the endמִקְצֵ֖ה (miq·ṣêh)Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 7097: End, extremityof sevenשִׁבְעַ֣ת (šiḇ·‘aṯ)Number - masculine singular constructStrong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite numberdaysיָמִ֑ים (yā·mîm)Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 3117: A daythe wordדְבַר־ (ḏə·ḇar-)Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a causeof the LORDיְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)Noun - proper - masculine singularStrong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israelcameוַיְהִ֕י (way·hî)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularStrong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, beto meאֵלַ֥י (’ê·lay)Preposition | first person common singularStrong's 413: Near, with, among, tosaying,לֵאמֹֽר׃ (lê·mōr)Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive constructStrong's 559: To utter, sayJump to PreviousEnd Seven Word
