Ezekiel 2:9

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Then I looked and realized a hand was stretched out to me, and in it was a written scroll.

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  • Ezek 8:3 : 3 He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.
  • Dan 10:10 : 10 Then a hand touched me and set me on my hands and knees.
  • Rev 5:1-5 : 1 The Opening of the Scroll Then I saw in the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne a scroll written on the front and back and sealed with seven seals. 2 And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice:“Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?” 3 But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it. 4 So I began weeping bitterly because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. 5 Then one of the elders said to me,“Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered; thus he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
  • Rev 10:8-9 : 8 Then the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak to me again,“Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” 9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me,“Take the scroll and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.” 10 So I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. 11 Then they told me:“You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”
  • Ezek 3:1 : 1 He said to me,“Son of man, eat what you see in front of you– eat this scroll– and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
  • Dan 10:16-18 : 16 Then one who appeared to be a human being was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me,“Sir, due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength. 17 How, sir, am I able to speak with you? My strength is gone, and I am breathless.” 18 Then the one who appeared to be a human being touched me again and strengthened me.
  • Heb 10:7 : 7 “Then I said,‘Here I am: I have come– it is written of me in the scroll of the book– to do your will, O God.’”
  • Dan 5:5 : 5 At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.
  • Jer 1:9 : 9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me,“I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.
  • Jer 36:2 : 2 “Get a scroll. Write on it everything I have told you to say about Israel, Judah, and all the other nations since I began to speak to you in the reign of Josiah until now.

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  • Ezek 2:10
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    10He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

  • Ezek 3:1-4
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    1He said to me,“Son of man, eat what you see in front of you– eat this scroll– and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

    2So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

    3He said to me,“Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

    4He said to me,“Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

  • Zech 5:1-2
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    1Vision Six: The Flying Scroll Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll!

    2Someone asked me,“What do you see?” I replied,“I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”

  • Ezek 2:8
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    8As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”

  • Ezek 37:1-2
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    1The Valley of Dry Bones The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

    2He made me walk all around among them. I realized there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

  • Ezek 2:1-2
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    1Ezekiel’s Commission He said to me,“Son of man, stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”

    2As he spoke to me, a wind came into me and stood me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me.

  • Ezek 3:22-23
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    22Isolated and Silenced The hand of the LORD rested on me there, and he said to me,“Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there.”

    23So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the LORD was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I threw myself face down.

  • Ezek 8:1-2
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    1A Desecrated Temple In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand of the Sovereign LORD seized me.

    2As I watched, I noticed a form that appeared to be a man. From his waist downward was something like fire, and from his waist upward something like a brightness, like an amber glow.

  • Dan 10:9-10
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    9I listened to his voice, and as I did so I fell into a trance-like sleep with my face to the ground.

    10Then a hand touched me and set me on my hands and knees.

  • Rev 10:8-10
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    8Then the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak to me again,“Go and take the open scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

    9So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me,“Take the scroll and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”

    10So I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it did taste as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.

  • Ezek 40:4
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    4The man said to me,“Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

  • Jer 1:9
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    9Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me,“I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.

  • Ezek 8:7-9
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    7He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.

    8He said to me,“Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

    9He said to me,“Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.”

  • Ezek 22:1
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    1The Sins of Jerusalem The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 12:1
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    1Previewing the Exile The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 14:2
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    2The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 21:1
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    1The Sword of Judgment(21:6) The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Rev 5:1
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    1The Opening of the Scroll Then I saw in the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne a scroll written on the front and back and sealed with seven seals.

  • Ezek 40:1
    72%

    1Vision of the New Temple In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on this very day, the hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me there.

  • Ezek 17:1
    72%

    1A Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Dan 10:5
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    5I looked up and saw a man clothed in linen; around his waist was a belt made of gold from Ufaz.

  • Zech 2:1
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    1Vision Three: The Surveyor(2:5) I looked again, and there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

  • Ezek 21:8
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    8The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Jer 13:8
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    8Then the LORD’s message came to me,

  • Zech 6:9
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    9A Concluding Oracle The LORD’s message came to me as follows:

  • Ezek 8:4
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    4Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

  • Dan 5:24
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    24Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.

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    1False Prophets Denounced Then the LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 3:16
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    16At the end of seven days the LORD’s message came to me:

  • Dan 10:16
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    16Then one who appeared to be a human being was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me,“Sir, due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength.

  • Ezek 37:15
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    15The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 33:23
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    23The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 12:8
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    8The LORD’s message came to me in the morning:

  • Ezek 6:1
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    1Judgment on the Mountains of Israel The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 22:17
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    17The LORD’s message came to me:

  • Jer 13:3
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    3Then the LORD’s message came to me again,

  • Rev 10:2
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    2He held in his hand a little scroll that was open, and he put his right foot on the sea and his left on the land.