Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ¹  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ²  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ³  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁴  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 8:1

A Desecrated Temple

8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, ⁵  as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand ⁶  of the sovereign Lord seized me. ⁷ 

[8:3]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

[8:3]  ² tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ³ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:3]  ⁴ tn Or “image.”

[8:1]  ⁵ tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”

[8:1]  ⁶ tn Or “power.”

[8:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.