Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 3:4
Speak — What things I shall shew thee, and in what words I shall declare them to thee.
Speak — What things I shall shew thee, and in what words I shall declare them to thee.
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...
SPEAK WITH MY WORDS. This is inspiration. See note on Ezekiel 2:5; Ezekiel 2:7. Ezekiel's voice and pen, but Jehovah's words....
The prophet shall be strengthened to perform his hard task Having taken in the "words" of the Lord (Ezekiel 3:4) there opens up before the prophet a general view of the mission he is sent upon. It is...
B. Assurance of Divine Power 3:4-9 TRANSLATION (4) And He said unto me, Son of man, go unto the house of Israel and speak with My words unto them (5) For you have not been sent unto a people of obscu...
_AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, GO, GET THEE UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AND SPEAK WITH MY WORDS UNTO THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
§ 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...
WITH MY WORDS] an advance upon the general instruction of Ezekiel 2:7, following the symbolical act just described....
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 *
וַ יֹּ֖אמֶר אֵלָ֑י בֶּן ־אָדָ֗ם לֶךְ ־בֹּא֙
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...
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...
Now at greater length God explains why he wished his servant to eat the volume which he held forth in his hand, namely, that when instructed by it he might approach the children of Israel; for he ough...
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, GO,.... After he had eaten the roll; for then was he qualified to prophesy: GET THEE UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; to whom he was to prophesy: AND SPEAK WITH MY WORDS UN...
And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them. Ver. 4. _Go, get thee unto the house of Israel._] This was a hard task, all things considere...
And He said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, the members of the prophet's own nation, AND SPEAK WITH MY WORDS UNTO THEM, the entire message being given by inspiration of God...
DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...
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...
SON OF MAN: see EZEKIEL 3:1, and EZEKIEL 2:1. _Go_; either the first word, go, intimates the awakening and rousing him, and the latter, GET THEE, directs him whither to go when on his legs, or else it...
Ezekiel 3:4 said H559 (H8799) Son H1121 man H120 go H3212 (H8798) H935 (H8798) house H100
‘And he said to me, “Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel and speak to them with my words. For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language (literally ‘deep of lip...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 3:4 The command to GO and SPEAK is repeated in v. Ezekiel 3:11, framing this second speech (vv....
(3.) RATIFICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION (Chap. Ezekiel 3:4) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 3:5. “OF A STRANGE SPEECH AND OF AN HARD LANGUAGE.” The marginal reading, _deep of lip and heavy of tongue_, indicat...
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...
Acts 1:8; Ezekiel 2:3; Ezekiel 2:7; Ezekiel 3:11; Matthew 10:5;...