King James Version
Ezekiel 24:18 in the King James Version says “So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.”
Ezekiel 24:18 · KJV
Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. run down: Heb. go
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. Forbear: Heb. Be silent lips: Heb. upper lip
So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“So I spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“unto the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
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