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Ezekiel Chapter 24 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV 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.
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BBE Ezekiel 24:18

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.
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DARBY Ezekiel 24:18

-- 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.
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KJV 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.
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WBT Ezekiel 24:18

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WEB Ezekiel 24:18

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.
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YLT Ezekiel 24:18

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.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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 In yet another way the calling of the prophet superseded the natural impulses of the man.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.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.