King James Version
Ezekiel 43:5 in the King James Version says “So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 43 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.”
Ezekiel 43:5 · KJV
And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face. when: or, when I came to prophesy that the city should be destroyed
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“took me up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
“So the spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“court”
H2691a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls)
“filled”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“and behold the glory”
H3519properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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