Ezekiel 2:9

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,”

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BSBPD

“Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And I look, and lo, a hand <FI>is<Fi> sent forth unto me, and lo, in it a roll of a book,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 2:9 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Jeremiah 1:9Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
  2. Jeremiah 36:2“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
  3. Ezekiel 3:1“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
  4. Ezekiel 8:3He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
  5. Daniel 5:5At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
  6. Daniel 10:10Suddenly, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.
  7. Daniel 10:16And suddenly one with the likeness of a man touched my lips, and I opened my mouth and said to the one standing before me, “My lord, because of the vision, I am overcome with anguish, and I have no strength.
  8. Zechariah 5:3Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
  9. Hebrews 10:7Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”
  10. Revelation 5:1Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.
  11. Revelation 10:8Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.”

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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