Ezekiel 24:18

Bishop's Bible

So I spake vnto the people betymes in the morning, & at euen my wife dyed: then vpon the next morowe I dyd as I was commaunded.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
The next morning I told the people what God had said. That evening, my wife died. The next morning I did what God commanded.

New Living Translation
So I proclaimed this to the people the next morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did everything I had been told to do.

New American Standard Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

New Century Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. The next morning I did as I had been commanded.

New English Translation
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. In the morning I acted just as I was commanded.

Update Bible Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Webster's Bible Translation
So I spoke to the people in the morning: and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Amplified Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I was commanded.

English Standard Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

World English Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Y spak to the puple in the morewtid, and my wijf was deed in the euentid; and Y dide in the morewtid, as he hadde comaundid to me.

English Revised Version
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.

Berean Standard Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I had been commanded.

Contemporary English Version
One morning, I was talking with the people as usual, and by sunset my wife was dead. The next day I did what the Lord told me,

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.

Complete Jewish Bible
I spoke to the people in the morning, and that evening my wife died. So I did the following morning as I had been ordered.

Darby Translation
—And I spoke unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So I spoke unto the people in the morning, and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

King James Version (1611)
So I spake vnto the people in the morning, and at euen my wife died, and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

New Life Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I was told.

New Revised Standard
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So I spake vnto the people in the morning, and at euen my wife dyed: and I did in the morning, as I was commanded.

George Lamsa Translation
So I spoke of it to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and in the morning of the next day I did as I had been commanded.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So I spake unto the people in the morning, and my wife died in the even, - and I did in the morning, as I had been commanded.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me.

Revised Standard Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I spoke to the people in the morning, as he commanded me in the evening, and I did in the morning as it was commanded me.

Good News Translation
Early in the day I was talking with the people. That evening my wife died, and the next day I did as I had been told.

Christian Standard Bible®
I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. The next morning I did just as I was commanded.

Hebrew Names Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

King James Version
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.

Lexham English Bible
And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning just as I was commanded.

Literal Translation
And I spoke to the people in the morning. And my wife died in the evening. And I did in the morning as I was commanded.

Young's Literal Translation
And I speak unto the people in the morning, and my wife dieth in the evening, and I do in the morning as I have been commanded.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So I spake vnto the people bytymes in the mornynge, and at euen my wyfe dyed: then vpon the nexte morow, I dyd as I was comaunded.

THE MESSAGE
I preached to the people in the morning. That evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I'd been told.

New King James Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and the next morning I did as I was commanded.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying: ¹⁶ Thou sonne of man, behold I wil take away from thee the pleasure of thyne eyes with a plague, yet shalt thou neither mourne nor weepe, neither shal thy teares run downe. ¹⁷ Mourne in scilens, make no mourning of the dead, bynde the tyre of thy head vpon thee, and put on thy shoes vpon thy feete, couer not thy lippes, and eate no mans bread. ¹⁸ So I spake vnto the people betymes in the morning, & at euen my wife dyed: then vpon the next morowe I dyd as I was commaunded. ¹⁹ And the people sayd vnto me: Wilt thou not tell vs what this signifieth towarde vs, that thou doest so? ²⁰ I aunswered them, The word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying: ²¹ Tell the house of Israel, thus sayth the Lorde God: Beholde, I will pollute my sanctuarie, euen the glorie of your power, the pleasure of your eyes, and your heartes delite: & your sonnes and daughters whom ye haue left, shall fall through the sworde. ²² Like as I haue done, so shall ye do also: ye shall not couer your lippes, ye shall eate no mans bread. ²³ And your tire [shalbe] vpon your heades, and your shoes vpon your feete: ye shall neither mourne nor weepe, but ye shall pyne away in your iniquities, & mourne one towardes another. ²⁴ Thus Ezechiel is your shewtoken, according to all that he hath done, ye shall do: when it commeth, then ye shal know that I am the Lorde God.

Bible Verse Review
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and at: 1 Corinthians 7:29, 1 Corinthians 7:30

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 12:7 - I did so Ezekiel 24:16 - the desire

Cross-References

Genesis 24:8
Neuerthelesse, if the woman wyl not folowe thee, then shalt thou be cleare from this my othe: onlye bring not my sonne thyther agayne.

Genesis 24:9
And the seruaunt put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his maister, and sware to hym as concernyng yt matter.

Genesis 24:14
Nowe let the damsel to whom I say, stoupe downe thy pitcher I pray thee, that I may drinke: If she say also, drinke, and I wyll geue thy Camelles drinke also: let the same be she that thou hast ordeyned for thy seruaunt Isahac, and thereby shall I knowe that thou hast shewed mercy on my maister.

Proverbs 31:26
She openeth her mouth with wisdome, and in her tongue is the lawe of grace.

1 Peter 3:8
In conclusion, be ye all of one minde, of one heart, loue as brethren, be pitiful, be curteous,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I spake unto the people in the morning,.... Did the duty of his office as a prophet; exhorted and instructed the people, particularly informed them of what had been said to him by the Lord, the evening or night before, concerning the death of his wife, and how he was to behave under such a providence; which he told them of before hand, that, when it came to pass, they might have a further proof of his being a true prophet of the Lord:

and at even my wife died; suddenly, as it was said she should; this shows who is meant by the desire of his eyes, and what by the taking it away;

and I did in the morning as I was commanded; neither moaned, nor sighed, nor wept, nor shed a tear, nor used any of the common ceremonies of mourning, but dressed and ate as at other times, as he was ordered to do; this was the next morning after his wife died. So the Syriac version,

"in the morning of the other day;''

and the Arabic version,

"in the morning of the following day.''

Thus whatever the Lord commands is to be done, though ever so contrary to the customs of men, or to natural inclinations and affections.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The death of Ezekiel’s wife took place in the evening of the same day that he delivered the foregoing prophecy. This event was to signify to the people that the Lord would take from them all that was most dear to them; and - owing to the extraordinary nature of the times - quiet lamentation for the dead, according to the usual forms of mourning, would be impossible.

Ezekiel 24:17

The priest in general was to mourn for his dead (Leviticus 21:1 ff); but Ezekiel was to be an exception to the rule. The “tire” was the priest’s mitre.

Eat not the bread of men - Food supplied for the comfort of the mourners.

Ezekiel 24:23

Pine away - Compare Leviticus 26:39. The outward signs of grief were a certain consolation. Their absence would indicate a heart-consuming sorrow.

Ezekiel 24:27

Ezekiel had been employed four years in foretelling the calamities about to come to pass. He had been utterly disregarded by the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and received with apparent respect but with real incredulity by those in exile. Now until the city had been actually taken, the voice of prophecy should cease, so far as God’s people were concerned. Hence the intervening series of predictions relating to neighboring and foreign nations Ezek. 25–32. After which the prophet’s voice was again heard addressing his countrymen in their exile. This accounts for the apparently parenthetical character of the next eight chapters.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 24:18. At even my wife died — The prophet's wife was a type of the city, which was to him exceedingly dear. The death of his wife represented the destruction of the city by the Chaldeans; see Ezekiel 24:21, where the temple is represented to be the desire of his eyes, as his wife was, Ezekiel 24:16.