Ezekiel Chapter 43 verse 6 Holy Bible
And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
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And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from inside the house; and the man was by my side.
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And I heard one speaking unto me out of the house; and a man was standing by me.
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And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.
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I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
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And I hear one speaking unto me from the house, and a man hath been standing near me,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - And I heard him (better, one) speaking unto me out of the house; and the (literally, a) man stood by me. Two questions arise - Who was the speaker? and, Who the man? As to the speaker, the natural reply is that the One who addressed Ezekiel from the interior of the "house" was Jehovah himself, whose "glory" had just entered in to take possession of the house, and this view is adopted by most interpreters, though Hengstenberg and Schroder regard the man who stood beside the prophet as the one who addressed him. As to the man, it cannot, as Kliefoth maintains, be decided solely by the absence of the article before "man" that this was a different person from the guide who had hitherto conducted the prophet and measured the Building. The article may have Been emitted because the important point to be recorded was not the circumstance that the "one" who stood beside him was his quondam guide, but the fact that this "one" was a man. That he was also Ezekiel's old conductor is at least a natural suggestion when one finds him afterwards appearing as a measurer with a line in his hand (Ezekiel 47:3).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) I heard him speaking.--Although the pronoun is not expressed in the original, there can be no question that God Himself spoke directly to the prophet, as in Ezekiel 44:2; Ezekiel 44:5; Ezekiel 44:9, &c. "The man" is without the article in the Hebrew, which leaves it uncertain whether the same being is meant who had hitherto guided the prophet; but as measurements were also made by this guide (Ezekiel 47:3-5), he was probably the same.
