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 Divine power to cut through all their resistance. Armed with this strength, he need not fear their obduracy, however great.
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...
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...
HARDER. Same as "strong" (verses: Ezekiel 3:8; Ezekiel 3:14). REBELLIOUS HOUSE. See note on Ezekiel 2:5....
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...
_harder than flint_ Cf. Jeremiah 5:3, "they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return." _though they_be _a rebellious_ Rather: FOR THEY ARE. See ch. Ezekiel 2:6. What gave...
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...
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...
§ 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...
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...
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 *
כְּ שָׁמִ֛יר חָזָ֥ק מִ צֹּ֖ר נָתַ֣תִּי מִצְחֶ
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 3:9 adamant H8068 harder H2389 flint H6864 made H5414 (H8804) forehead H4696 afraid H3372 (H8799) dismayed...
“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...
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...
_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...
(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 Timothy 2:3; 2 Timothy 2:6; Ezekiel 2:6; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 41:14;