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EZEKIEL CHAPTER 40
Ezekiel’s vision of the model of a city, and of an angel with a line and measuring reed taking the dimensions of the temple, Eze_40:1-5. The description of the east gate of the outer court, Eze_40:6-19; of the north gate, Eze_40:20-23; and of the south gate, Eze_40:24-26; of the south gate of the inner court, Eze_40:27-31; of the east gate, Eze_40:32-34; and of the north gate, Eze_40:35-38. The eight tables, Eze_40:39-43. The chambers for the singers and for the priests in waiting, Eze_40:44-47. The porch of the house, Eze_40:48,49.
Of our captivity; of those that with Jeconiah, who is also called Jehoiachin, were carried away into captivity eleven years before Jerusalem was sacked and burnt. And this falls in with the 3374th year of the world, or near it; about 574 years before Christ’s incarnation.
In the beginning of the year; in the month Nisan.
The tenth day; the day that the paschal lamb was to be taken up in order to the feast on the tenth day, on which Israel went out of Egypt.
In the fourteenth year; which appears thus, the city was smitten in the eleventh year of Jeconiah’s captivity, or eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, to which if you add fourteen, they amount to twenty-five.
Was smitten; taken, plundered, and spoiled by the Babylonians.
In the selfsame day: this is very particularly noted, as of some weight.
The hand of the Lord; the Spirit of prophecy: see Eze_1:3 3:14 8:1.
Brought me; not by local motion carrying his body, but in visional representation, showing the prophet what he relates to us.
Thither; to Jerusalem, the place where it did stand, as appears in the next verse.