King James Version
Ezekiel 43:6 in the King James Version says “And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 43 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.”
Ezekiel 43:6 · KJV
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.
In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger. and the: or, for there was but a wall between me and them
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And I heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“him speaking”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“unto me out of the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“and the man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“stood”
H5975to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
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