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ADAMANT - Or, diamond Jeremiah 17:1, which was employed to cut flint.
Ezekiel’s firmness being that of a diamond, he should cut a stroke
home to the hardened hearts of a rebellious people. For “though...
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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...
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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...
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HARDER. Same as "strong" (verses: Ezekiel 3:8; Ezekiel 3:14).
REBELLIOUS HOUSE. See note on Ezekiel 2:5....
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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...
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As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them
not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious
house.
AS AN ADAMANT HARDER THAN FLINT HAVE I MADE THY FOREH...
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§ 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...
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A HAND] This hand is not said to be that of the Figure on the throne.
The vague expression is another instance of Ezekiel's reverent
reserve. A roll] the usual form of Eastern books: see Jeremiah 36:2...
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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 *
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AN ADAMANT HARDER THAN FLINT. — _Adamant_ is the diamond, as it is
translated (Jeremiah 17:1). The people were as hard as flint, but as
the diamond cuts flint, so Ezekiel’s words should be made by the...
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כְּ שָׁמִ֛יר חָזָ֥ק מִ צֹּ֖ר
נָתַ֣תִּי מִצְחֶ
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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...
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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...
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CHAPTER III....
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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...
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Lastly, we gather from this passage that although the whole world
should rise up against the servants of God, yet his strength would be
superior, as we saw it was with Jeremiah: They shall fight again...
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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...
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AS AN ADAMANT HARDER THAN FLINT HAVE I MADE THY FOREHEAD,.... Or,
"than a rock" o; the "adamant" has its name in Greek, because it
cannot be conquered or subdued, neither by the hammer, nor by fire;
t...
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As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them
not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they [be] a rebellious
house.
Ver. 9. _As an adamant, harder than flint._] Heb., St...
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DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...
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As an adamant, the diamond, hardest of precious stones, HARDER THAN
FLINT HAVE I MADE THY FOREHEAD; FEAR THEM NOT, NEITHER BE DISMAYED AT
THEIR LOOKS, blasphemous and hostile though they were, THOUGH...
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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...
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If their foreheads be hard and cutting as the flint, if they wound the
soft and tender, if they sparkle with fire against those of harder
metal; yet be not afraid, I have made thee as the adamant, har...
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Ezekiel 3:9 adamant H8068 harder H2389 flint H6864 made H5414 (H8804)
forehead H4696 afraid H3372 (H8799) dismayed...
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“Behold I have made your face hard against their faces, and your
forehead hard against their foreheads. I have made you forehead as an
adamant, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them, nor be dism...
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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...
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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...
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_As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead._
THE ADAMANT
(Zechariah 7:12):--A great and good man who served and suffered for
Christ in North Africa seventeen centuries ago won for hims...
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(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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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1 Timothy 2:3; 2 Timothy 2:6; Ezekiel 2:6; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 41:14;