Ezekiel 3:6

many people Rather: peoples, i.e. different foreign nations.

Surely, had I sent thee More exactly: surely if I sent thee … they would hearken. There is some difficulty about the construction, but the sense is sufficiently clear. The heathen have a greater susceptibility for the truth than Israel, which has acted more wickedly than the nations (ch. Ezekiel 5:6-7; Ezekiel 16:48; Ezekiel 16:51. Cf. Jeremiah 2:10-11). Others would render: but I send thee to them (Israel), theywill understand thee. The last words, however, cannot mean "understand thee;" they mean "hearken unto thee," as Ezekiel 3:7, where the phrase is the same.