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Ezekiel 40:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
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Role in This Section
Ezekiel's measured final vision carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of…” at Ezekiel 40:3 as part of “A Dated Vision Brings Ezekiel to a High Mountain and Measuring Guide.”
Read It With
- Ezekiel 40:1–4
Read Ezekiel 40:3 with 40:1–4. By itself, “And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of…” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Twenty-five years into exile and fourteen years after the city's fall, Ezekiel is brought in visions to a high mountain where a bronze-like man with cord and reed commands careful seeing, hearing, and reporting.
Why It Needs Context
Ezekiel 40:1–4 gives Ezekiel 40:3 its literary owner and outcome. Ezekiel's measured final vision carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of…” at Ezekiel 40:3 as part of “A Dated Vision Brings Ezekiel to a High Mountain and Measuring Guide.” Application waits until that movement is understood.
Continue in Context
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Read Ezekiel 40:1–4 — A Dated Vision Brings Ezekiel to a High Mountain and Measuring GuideSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 40:1–4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 40:1–4
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