Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The word of the LORD came to me: New Living Translation Then this message came to me from the LORD: English Standard Version The word of the LORD came to me: Berean Study Bible Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, King James Bible Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, New King James Version Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, New American Standard Bible And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, NASB 1995 And the word of the LORD came to me saying, NASB 1977 And the word of the LORD came to me saying, Amplified Bible Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Christian Standard Bible Then the word of the LORD came to me: Holman Christian Standard Bible Then the word of the LORD came to me: " American Standard Version Also the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Brenton Septuagint Translation And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Contemporary English Version The LORD said, Douay-Rheims Bible And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: English Revised Version Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Good News Translation The LORD spoke to me. GOD'S WORD® Translation Then the LORD spoke his word to me. He said, International Standard Version This message came to me from the LORD: JPS Tanakh 1917 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: Literal Standard Version And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, NET Bible The word of LORD came to me: New Heart English Bible Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, World English Bible Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Young's Literal Translation And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, Additional Translations ... Study Bible Ezekiel's Wife Dies15Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 16“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.… Cross References Ezekiel 24:14 I, the LORD, have spoken; the time is coming, and I will act. I will not refrain or show pity, nor will I relent. I will judge you according to your ways and deeds,' declares the Lord GOD." Ezekiel 24:16 "Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow. Treasury of Scripture Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, (15) Also the word.--What follows is distinctly separated from the utterance of the foregoing parable and its interpretation, yet Ezekiel 24:18 shows that it took place upon the same day. Ezekiel is warned of the sudden death of his wife, who is described as deeply beloved, and yet he is forbidden to make any sign of mourning for her.Verses 15-17. - Behold, I take away from thee, etc. The next word of the Lord, coming after an interval, is of an altogether exceptional character, as giving one solitary glimpse into the personal home life of the prophet. The lesson which the history teaches is, in substance, the same as that of Jeremiah 16:5. The calamity that falls on the nation will swallow up all personal sorrow, but it is brought home to Ezekiel, who may have read those words with wonder, by a new and terrible experience. We are left to conjecture whether anything in the prophet's home life furnished a starting-point for the terrible message that was now borne in upon his soul. Had his wife been ill before? or, as the words, with a stroke, suggest, did it fall on him, as a thunderbolt "out of the blue"? I mention, only to reject, the view that the wife's death belongs as much to the category of symbolic visions as the boiling cauldron. To me such a view seems to indicate an incapacity for entering into a prophet's life and calling as great as that which sees nothing but an allegory in the history of Gomer in Hosea 2, 3. We, who accept the Scripture record as we find it, may believe that Ezekiel was taught, as the earlier prophet, to interpret his work by his own personal experience. To Ezekiel himself the loss of one who is thus described as the desire (or, delight) of his eyes (the word is used of things in 1 Kings 20:6, of young warriors in Lamentations 2:4, of sons and daughters in Ver. 25), must have been, at first, as the crowning sorrow of his life; but the feelings of the patriot-prophet were stronger even than those of the husband, and his personal bereavement seemed as a small thing compared with the desolation of his country. He was to refrain from all conventional signs of mourning, from weeping and wailing, from the loud sighing (for forbear to cry, read, with the Revised Version, sigh, but not aloud), from the head covered or sprinkled with ashes (Isaiah 61:3), and from the bare feet (2 Samuel 15:30; Isaiah 20:2), from the covered lips (Leviticus 13:45; Micah 3:7), which were "the trappings and the garb of woe" in such a case. Eat not the bread of men. The words point to the custom, more or less common in all nations and at all times, of a funeral feast, like the parentalia of the Romans. Wine also was commonly part of such a feast (Jeremiah 16:7). The primary idea of the custom seems to have been that the mourner's friends sent the materials for the feast as a token of their sympathy. Parallel Commentaries ... Lexicon Then the wordדְבַר־ (ḏə·ḇar-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause of the LORD יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel came וַיְהִ֥י (way·hî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be to me, אֵלַ֥י (’ê·lay) Preposition | first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to saying, לֵאמֹֽר׃ (lê·mōr) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say Jump to Previous WordJump to Next WordLinks Ezekiel 24:15 NIVEzekiel 24:15 NLT Ezekiel 24:15 ESV Ezekiel 24:15 NASB Ezekiel 24:15 KJV Ezekiel 24:15 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 24:15 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 24:15 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 24:15 French Bible Ezekiel 24:15 Clyx Quotations OT Prophets: Ezekiel 24:15 Also the word of Yahweh came (Ezek. 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