Belly — The mouth is the proper instrument of eating, but when meat is digested, the belly is said to eat. Fill thy bowels — This denotes the fulness of the measure wherewith we should read, meditate, and digest the word of God. Honey — It was sweet to receive things by revelation from God, and so to converse with God. And usually the first part of the ministerial work is pleasant.
Verse Ezekiel 3:3. _IT WAS IN MY MOUTH AS HONEY_] It was joyous to me to receive the Divine message, to be thus let into the secrets of the Divine counsel, and I promised myself much comfort in that...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. PREDICTIONS BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM A. judgment Predictions Concerning Jerusalem (1-24) Chapter S 1:1-3:14 The Vision of Glory and the Call of the Prophet _ 1. The...
EZEKIEL 2:8 TO EZEKIEL 3:15. His inspiration is suggestively described by the symbolical swallowing of a book-roll. In Jer. (Jeremiah 1:9) it is more immediately conceived as due to the touch of the D...
THEN DID. EAT. Compare Revelation 10:10. AS HONEY, &c. Compare Psalms 19:10; Psalms 119:103.Jeremiah 15:16....
The prophet's inspiration Being commanded to speak God's words to the people, the prophet is next assured by a symbol, a book given him to eat, that God's words shall be given him....
CAUSE THY BELLY TO EAT— _Thy belly shall eat this roll which I give thee; and thy bowels shall be filled with it: And while I did eat it, it was sweet in my mouth like honey._ Houbigant. See Revelatio...
II. THE PREPARATION FOR SERVICE 2:8-3:15 Following the call to service, God begins a process of education to prepare this man for the assigned task. Three steps can be distinguished in this educationa...
And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. IT WAS IN MY MOUTH AS H...
§ 1. EZEKIEL'S CALL AND CONSECRATION AS A PROPHET (EZEKIEL 1-3) Date, June-July, 592 b.c. Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by means of a vision of God's glory (Ezekiel...
NATION] RV 'nations,' the whole Hebrew people, both Judah and Israel. REBELLIOUS] a frequently recurring description of Israel's character found very often in the phrase a 'rebellious house,' as in Ez...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 EZEKIEL EATS THE *SCROLL – EZEKIEL 3:1-3 V1 Then the *
IT WAS IN MY MOUTH AS HONEY FOR SWEETNESS. — That is, the first impression made upon him by his prophetic call was one of delight. Such it must always be to those whose high privilege it is to bear Go...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י בֶּן ־אָדָם֙ בִּטְנְךָ֤ תַ
EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC COMMISSION Ezekiel 2:1; Ezekiel 3:1 THE call of a prophet and the vision of God which sometimes accompanied it are the two sides of one complex experience. The man who has truly s...
This roll he was commanded to eat. The writing on the roll was a roll of lamentations and mourning and woe. The prophet declared that having eaten the roll, he found it in his mouth "as honey for swee...
_Mouth. I readily accepted the commission, but soon found the difficulties to which it would expose me, ver. 12., Jeremias xv. 16., and Apocalypse x. 10._...
I beg the Reader to pause again and again, while going through the very solemn service of Ezekiel's ordination. What an idea doth it awaken in the mind of its importance. Though the Lord Jesus himself...
Ezekiel, as we have just seen, proceeds to say, that a book was given him to eat, because God’s servants ought to speak from the inmost affection of their heart. We know that many have a tongue suffic...
The Lord testifies that Israel is even more hardened than any of the heathen nations. The people are "impudent and hard-hearted." It needed that Ezekiel should have his forehead made as hard as adaman...
AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, CAUSE THY BELLY TO EAT,.... Or "devour" f, and consume; that is, concoct and digest; do not cast it out of thy mouth, as soon as thou hast tasted of it; but let it go...
And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat [it]; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness. Ver. 3. _Cause thy be...
_Son of man, eat that which thou findest_ Chaldee, _that which is given thee. Eat this roll_ Receive into thy mind and heart, as certain and important truth, what is written therein: see note on Ezeki...
DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...
And He said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee, so that the Word of God contained in the roll would, as it were, become the very substance...
1-11 Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, whic...
In this verse is confirmed and explained what was spoken EZEKIEL 3:1, which see. CAUSE THY BELLY TO EAT; the mouth is the proper instrument of eating, but when meat is eaten and digested, the belly is...
Ezekiel 3:3 said H559 (H8799) Son H1121 man H120 feed H990 belly H398 (H8686) fill H4390 ...
‘And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this roll and go, speak to the house of Israel.” So I opened my mouth and he caused me to eat the roll, and he said to me, “Son of man, cause yo...
EAT IT Compare (Ezekiel 2:10); (Revelation 10:9). Whatever its message, the word of God is sweet to faith because it is the word of God....
CONTENTS: Ezekiel's commission, continued. Again filled with the Spirit. His dumbness. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Ministers are God's mouth to the children of men, but must not undertake t...
Ezekiel 3:3. _The roll was in my mouth as honey._ To taste the good word of God is pleasant; but it was bitter in the belly with regard to imprisonment and martyrdom. Revelation 10:9. No matter; the s...
_He caused me to eat that roll._ THE MYSTIC MIND 1. There are few writers in the Bible who have imprinted the characteristics of their own mind on their writings more than the prophet Ezekiel, and th...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 3:3 FEED YOUR BELLY. Having tasted the scroll, the prophet learns that the words of mourning are not bitter, as one would expect, but SWEET AS HONEY....
(2.) CONSCIOUS ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMMISSION (Chaps. Ezekiel 2:8 to Ezekiel 3:3) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 2:9. “SENT UNTO ME;” rather, _put forth unto me_ (as in chap....
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 3:1 EAT THAT THOU FINDEST, etc. The iteration of the command of Ezekiel 2:8 seems to imply, like the words, "be not thou rebellious," in that verse, some reluctance on the prophet'...
CHAPTER 2:1-3:11. CALL TO THE PROPHETICAL OFFICE. Ezekiel 2:1. _And he said to me, Son of man,_ (Hävernick, after many leading commentators, both ancient and modern, still lays stress on this express...
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and then go and speak to the house of Israel (Ezekiel 3:1). In other words, devour it and then go give it forth. You see...
Colossians 3:16; Ezekiel 2:10; Jeremiah 15:16; Jeremiah 20:9;...