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...
ALL MY WORDS. See note on Ezekiel 2:7....
The Prophet's Particular Mission to the Exiles at Tel Abib Though Ezekiel's mission, like that of all the prophets, was to the house of Israel as a whole (Ezekiel 3:5), yet immediately his work lay a...
C. Assessment of the Congregation 3:10-15 TRANSLATION (10) And He said unto me, Son of man, all My words which I shall speak unto you receive into your heart, and with your ears hear. (11) And go unt...
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. ALL MY WORDS ... RECEIVE IN THINE HEART, AND HEAR WITH THINE EARS....
§ 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...
SPREAD IT BEFORE ME] Ezekiel had a view from the first of the whole nature of his message. WITHIN AND WITHOUT] indicating the abundance of calamity which Ezekiel had to proclaim. Book rolls were usual...
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 ־אָדָ֕ם אֶת ־כָּל
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...
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to thee (c) receive in thy heart, and hear with thy ears. (c) He shows what is meant by the eating of the book, which is that the m...
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...
This is a repetition of the same doctrine; for we said that our Prophet is more verbose than Isaiah, and even than Jeremiah, because he had accustomed himself to the form of speech which was then cust...
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...
MOREOVER HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN,.... The same glorious Person as before continued speaking to him, and added, as follows: ALL MY WORDS THAT I SHALL SPEAK UNTO THEE; not only what he had spoken t...
_Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears._ Ver. 10. _Son of man, all my words receive in thine heart, &c._] Th...
Moreover, He said unto me, in further preparation for the work of his peculiar ministry, SON OF MAN, ALL MY WORDS THAT I SHALL SPEAK UNTO THEE RECEIVE IN THINE HEART AND HEAR WITH THINE EARS, in perfe...
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...
This verse is a repetition of the charge given to the prophet, to deal faithfully and undauntedly in the delivering his message, to deliver always what God should speak, to speak nothing else, and to...
Ezekiel 3:10 said H559 (H8799) Son H1121 man H120 receive H3947 (H8798) heart H3824 words H1697 speak...
‘Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you, receive in your heart and hear with your ears, and go, get you to the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak...
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...
_All My words. .. receive in thine heart._ THE HEART THE TREASURY OF TRUTH What is in the head may soon be lost, but what is in the heart abides. Books locked up in the closet are safe, and truths la...
(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...
1 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:1; Ezekiel 2:8; Ezekiel 3:1;...