Ezekiel 3:8
What meaning of the ezekiel 3:8 in the Bible?
What does Ezekiel 3:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads."
What does Ezekiel 3:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads."
I HAVE MADE ... THY FOREHEAD STRONG - I have given thee a strength superior to theirs; a metaphor taken from horned animals....
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. STRONG. strong, or hard (for endurance). Hebrew. _hazak._ Same as "harder "(Ezekiel 3:9). Compare the name Ezekiel in Title....
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...
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 obsc...
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. BEHOLD, I HAVE MADE THY FACE STRONG AGAINST THEIR FACES. His name, "Ezekiel," means one 's...
§ 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 (Ezekie...
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 *Lor...
THY FACE STRONG AGAINST THEIR FACES. — The word _strong_ is the same here as that rendered _impudent_ (marg. _stiff_) in Ezekiel 3:7. Of course it must have a different shade of meaning in its applica...
הִנֵּ֨ה נָתַ֧תִּי אֶת ־פָּנֶ֛יךָ חֲזָקִ֖ים לְ עֻמַּ֣ת פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וְ אֶֽת ־מִצְחֲךָ֥ חָזָ֖ק לְ עֻמַּ֥ת...
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...
Behold, I have made thy (b) face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. (b) God promises his assistance to his ministers, and that he will give them boldness and...
_Harder. If they will not blush, thou shalt not be ashamed to lay their disorders before their eyes, though they be such as ought not to be mentioned, as becomes saints. (Haydock) See chap. xvi., and...
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 was forewarned of the obstinacy of the people, yea, even of their desperate _wickedness. _Now God strengthens him lest he should despair when he saw that he must contend with such abandoned an...
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...
BEHOLD, I HAVE MADE THE, FACE STRONG AGAINST THEIR FACES,.... Not that the prophet should have the same sort of impudence and confidence they had; but that God would "give" n him such a face, as it is...
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. Ver. 8. _Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces._] I have steeled thy forehe...
_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...
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, which...
This may be to remove the objection of the prophet, who might plead the softness of his own metal, and pretend shameless sinners will scoff a young prophet out of countenance. Behold, says God, consid...
Ezekiel 3:8 made H5414 (H8804) face H6440 strong H2389 against H5980 faces H6440 forehead H4696 strong H2389 against H5980 foreheads H4696 Exodus 4:15-16, Exodus 11:4-8; 1 Kings 21:20;...
“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...
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...
(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 se...
1 Kings 21:20; Acts 7:51; Exodus 11:4; Exodus 4:15; Exodus 4:16; Hebrews 11:27; Hebrews 11:32; Isaiah 50:7; Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 15:20;...
I have — I have given thee, constancy, and manly carriage. The more impudent wicked people are in their opposition to religion, the more openly and resolutely should God's people appear in the practic...