Ezekiel 3:24

Then the spirit entered into me,.... Again; the Spirit of God, that was in the wheels and living creatures: see Eze 2:2;

and set me upon my feet; as he had done before, when in the same prostrate…

“Shut” in the privacy of his own chamber he is to receive a message from Yahweh. This “shutting up,” however, and the “bands” (Eze 3:25, used figuratively) were signs of the manner in which Ezekiel’s…

The spirit - said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house - Hide thyself for the present. The reason is immediately subjoined.

After all this large and magnificent discovery which God had made of himself to the prophet, and the full instructions he had given him how to deal with those to whom he sent him with an ample…

shut thyself within thy house The words are not to be pressed to mean more than abstention from the exercise of his ministry in public. Cf. ch. Eze 8:1; Eze 11:25; Eze 14:1 &c.