Ezekiel 2:9
7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
8 But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
10 And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
- KJV
- And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
- WEB
- When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.
- ASV
- And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
- DARBY
- And I looked, and behold, a hand was put forth toward me; and behold, a roll of a book therein.
- BLB
- And I looked, and behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, in it [was] a scroll of a book.
- ÅB
- Og jeg så, og se, en hånd var rakt ut til meg, og i den var det en bokrull.
- OTB
- Så så jeg, og se, en hånd ble rakt ut mot meg, og i den var en bokrull.
- B1930
- Og jeg så, og se, en hånd var rakt ut til mig, og i den var det en bokrull.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 8:3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Read in contextRevelation 5:1–5
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
Read in contextEzekiel 3:1
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
Read in contextRevelation 10:8–11
And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
Read in contextDaniel 10:10
And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:2
Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Read in contextDaniel 5:5
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Read in contextHebrews 10:7
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
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