The word of the Lord came expressly,.... Or, "in being was" ; which phrase denotes the reality, certainty, substantiality and evidence of the word of the Lord to him:unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi; which Buzi, some say, was Jeremiah.
Kimchi observes, that, in the Jerusalem Targum, the Prophet Ezekiel is called the son of Jeremiah the prophet: and Jeremiah was called Buzi because they despised him; this is rejected by Abarbinel; nor is there any reason to believe it, any more than what Nazianzen says, that Ezekiel was a servant of Jeremiah:in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar;See Gill on "Eze 1:1".
The Chaldee paraphrase makes the word of the Lord to come to him at two distinct times and places;"the word of prophecy from before the Lord was with Ezekiel the son of Buzi the priest in the land of Israel: it returned a second time, and spoke with him in the province, the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar:''and the hand of the Lord was there upon him; by which is meant the gift and word of prophecy, which came with power and efficacy, clearness and evidence; so the Targum, and the"spirit of prophecy from before the Lord there abode by him;''by which he saw all later visions, and delivered out the following prophecies; see 2Pe 1:21.
hyh hyh "essendo fuit", Pagninus, Montanus. Heb. ; "existendo exstitit", Polanus. Orat. 47. vol. 1. p.