Ezekiel 40:2

In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel,.... Or by the spirit of prophecy, as the Targum again; that is, being under the impressions of the Spirit of God, it appeared to him, in a…

By which - Better as in the margin. (compare Eze 43:12). As the frame of a city - It is not “a city” which is seen, but a building (the temple and its courts) like a city in its construction,…

Set me upon a very high mountain - Mount Moriah, the mount on which Solomon's temple was built, Ch2 3:1.

Here is, 1. The date of this vision. It was in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity (Eze 40:1), which some compute to be the thirty-third year of the first captivity, and is here said to be…

visions of God ch. Eze 1:1; Eze 8:3; Eze 11:24.

a very high mountain The site is the ancient hill of Zion, but it is now exalted above the hills, Isa 2:2; Zec 14:10, cf. Eze 17:22; Eze 20:40.

by which…