Ezekiel 24:18
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 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | — 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. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Ezekiel 24:18 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 24:15-27
Though mourning for the dead is a duty, yet it must be kept under by religion and right reason: we must not sorrow as men that have no hope. Believers must not copy the language and expressions of those who know not God. The people asked the meaning of the sign. God takes from them all that was dearest to them. And as Ezekiel wept not for his affliction, so neither should they weep for theirs. Blessed be God, we…
Ezekiel 24:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 24:18
- 1 Corinthians 7:29-30
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
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Context
- Ezekiel 24:17
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.
- Ezekiel 24:18
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 24:19
And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
Ezekiel 24:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y hablé al pueblo por la mañana, y á la tarde murió mi mujer: y á la mañana hice como me fué mandado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et je parlai au peuple le matin, et ma femme mourut le soir; et, le matin, je fis comme il m’avait été commandé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und ich redete zu dem Volke am Morgen, und am Abend starb mein Weib. Und ich tat am Morgen, wie mir geboten war. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Locutus sum ergo ad populum mane, et mortua est uxor mea vespere: fecique mane sicut præceperat mihi. |