The Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
Parallel translations
- WEB The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
- KJV So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
- BSB Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
- NASB And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner courtyard; and behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house.
- NLT Then the Spirit took me up and brought me into the inner courtyard, and the glory of the Lord filled the Temple.
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Quick answer
The Spirit lifts Ezekiel into the inner court, and the glory of Yahweh fills the house. God's presence completely fills his temple.
Overview
Caught up by the Spirit, Ezekiel sees the glory of the Lord fill the whole temple, just as it filled the tabernacle and Solomon's temple at their dedication (Exodus 40:34, 1 Kings 8:11). The filling signals God's full acceptance of and dwelling in his house. This fullness anticipates Christ, in whom all the fullness of God dwells (Colossians 2:9), and the church filled with God's Spirit.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- 2 Cor 12:2–4I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
- Ezek 11:24The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
- 1 Kgs 8:10–11It came to pass, when the priests had come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled Yahweh’s house,
- Ezek 8:3He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
- Ezek 37:1Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
- Ezek 44:4Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house: and I fell on my face.
- Acts 8:39When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn’t see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.
- Ezek 3:12–14Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, “Blessed be Yahweh’s glory from his place.”
- Ezek 10:4Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.
- 1 Kgs 18:12It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.
- 2 Chr 5:14so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled God’s house.
- Song 1:4Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
- Isa 6:3One called to another, and said, “Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!”
- Exod 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.
- Ezek 40:2In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
- Hag 2:7–9and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.
- 2 Kgs 2:16They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, “Don’t send them.”
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