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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Ezekiel is unavailable, but you can change that!

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lit. to rest] So 40:2, cp. 44:30; or, with a slight change, set me down cp. v. 14. The place was the wide plain (biḳ‘â) where an earlier vision had been granted, 3:22: he must be alone, far from human habitations. To his mental sight the plain looked like an ancient battlefield strewn with bones of the slain (v. 9).—2. The description is intended to shew how many they were, and how long they had been lying. If death had only just taken place, or if the soul had not altogether departed from the
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