Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 3:7
Verse Ezekiel 3:7. Impudent and hard-hearted.] "Stiff of forehead, and hard of heart." - Margin. The marginal readings on several verses here are very nervous and very correct.
Verse Ezekiel 3:7. Impudent and hard-hearted.] "Stiff of forehead, and hard of heart." - Margin. The marginal readings on several verses here are very nervous and very correct.
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...
HEARKEN. be willing to hearken. WILL NOT HEARKEN. are not willing to hearken. ARE. they are. IMPUDENT, &c. Reference to Pentateuch. See note on Ezekiel 2:4....
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...
_impudent and hardhearted_ See on ch. Ezekiel 2:4....
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...
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. THEY WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEE; FOR THEY WILL NOT...
§ 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...
IMPUDENT] RV 'of a stiff forehead.' This rendering gives greater point to 'thy forehead' in Ezekiel 3:8; Ezekiel 3:9....
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 *
ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL — Means, of course, the people generally, as the word _all_ is often used in Scripture and elsewhere. There were even then among them such saints as Jeremiah and Daniel....
וּ בֵ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לֹ֤א יֹאבוּ֙ לִ שְׁמֹ֣עַ
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...
_Hard. Literally, "rubbed" like a stone, or brass; attrita. (Haydock) --- God's ambassadors (Ephesians vi. 20.; Calmet) must do their utmost. (Haydock) --- The success must not puff them up, nor the f...
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...
_EZEKIEL’S MINISTRY AND OURS_ ‘The house of Israel will not hearken unto thee.’ Ezekiel 3:7 ‘Seeing we have this ministry … we faint not.’ 2 Corinthians 4:1 I. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE CHRISTIAN...
Now, therefore, we clearly see the sloth of the people assigned as a reason why they purposely rejected the Word of God, and hardened themselves in obstinacy. He also ascends higher, and says, that th...
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...
BUT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WOULD NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEE,.... "They are not willing" l; they have no desire, no inclination, to hear and hearken; but the reverse; they were capable of hearing and understan...
_But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel [are] impudent and hardhearted._ Ver. 7. _But the house of Israel will not hearken...
_Thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech_ It would be a great addition to the burden of thy office if thou wert sent, as Jonah was, as a prophet to a foreign nation, and to a people whose la...
DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, will show no interest in the prophet's message, will refuse to he obedient; FOR THEY WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME, as the history of the last centuries...
IMPUDENT AND HARD HEARTED: _ Heb._ stiff of forehead, and hard of heart...
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...
BUT, Heb. _And_, put adversatively, is rightly rendered _but_. WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEE; have no mind or will. The original is not here, as mostly it is elsewhere, content to express it by the word...
Ezekiel 3:7 house H1004 Israel H3478 will H14 (H8799) listen H8085 (H8800) will H14 (H8802) listen...
‘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...
_But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me._ THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PREDESTINATION AND FOREKNOWLEDGE God gives Ezekiel an express command to speak his wor...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 3:5 Contrary to what he expected, Ezekiel is warned that taking God’s word to another nation would be easier than taking God’s words to his own people. ⇐
(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 Samuel 8:7; Ezekiel 2:4; Ezekiel 24:7; Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 25:3;...
All — The far greater part, tho' not every particular person....