Ezekiel 24:18
New International Version
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I had been 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.

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.

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.

King James Bible
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.

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
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.

NASB 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.

NASB 1977
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.

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.

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.

Holman 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.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I spoke in the morning to the people, and my wife died in the evening, and at the break of the next day I did as I was commanded

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

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 had told me,

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.

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I was ordered.

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.

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

JPS Tanakh 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.

Literal Standard Version
And I speak to the people in the morning, and my wife dies in the evening, and I do in the morning as I have been commanded.

Majority 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.

New American Bible
I spoke to the people in the morning. In the evening my wife died. The next morning I did as I had been commanded.

NET Bible
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.

New 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.

New Heart 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.

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.

World English Bible
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.

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.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Ezekiel's Wife Dies
17Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.” 18So 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. 19Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”…

Cross References
Ezekiel 12:7
So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.

Ezekiel 24:16
"Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.

Ezekiel 24:17
Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners."

Ezekiel 24:19
Then the people asked me, "Won't you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?"


Treasury of Scripture

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.

and at

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; …

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Ezekiel 24
1. Under the parable of a boiling pot
6. is shown the irrevocable destruction of Jerusalem
15. By the sign of Ezekiel not mourning for the death of his wife
19. is shown the calamity of the Jews to be beyond all sorrow














(18) In the morning: and at even.--What the prophet "spake unto the people in the morning" was what he has recorded (Ezekiel 24:3-14). Shortly after this the warning of Ezekiel 24:15-17 must have come to him, and then his Wife died in the evening of the same day. Accordingly, on the following morning the strange conduct which had been commanded him was observed by the people; their curiosity is awakened, and, rightly surmising that there must be some especial significance in the strange doings of their prophet, they come to inquire the meaning of his actions. In reply (Ezekiel 24:20-24), he announces again the destruction of the Temple, and that in the depth of sorrow and trouble at its fall there shall be no outward show of mourning.

Verse 18. - So I spake unto the people in the morning, etc. In yet another way the calling of the prophet superseded the natural impulses of the man. He knew that his wife's hours were numbered, yet the day was spent, not in ministering at her deathbed, but in one last effort to impress the teachings of the time upon the seared consciences and hardened hearts of his countrymen and neighbors. I cannot help referring to the poem 'Ezekiel,' by B.M., published in 1871, as expressing the meaning of the history better than any commentary.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So I spoke
וָאֲדַבֵּ֤ר (wā·’ă·ḏab·bêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the people
הָעָם֙ (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

in the morning,
בַּבֹּ֔קֶר (bab·bō·qer)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1242: Dawn, morning

and in the evening
בָּעָ֑רֶב (bā·‘ā·reḇ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6153: Evening

my wife
אִשְׁתִּ֖י (’iš·tî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

died.
וַתָּ֥מָת (wat·tā·māṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4191: To die, to kill

And the next morning
בַּבֹּ֖קֶר (bab·bō·qer)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1242: Dawn, morning

I did
וָאַ֥עַשׂ (wā·’a·‘aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

I had been commanded.
צֻוֵּֽיתִי׃ (ṣuw·wê·ṯî)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order


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