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Ezekiel 3:11

And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

Thy people - who ought to be better disposed to hearken to thee, their fellow-countryman, than hadst thou been a foreigner (Ezekiel 3:5).

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CAPTIVITY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for captives. UNTO THE CHILDREN OF. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version omits these words. CHILDREN. sons. THE LORD GOD. He...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    § 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY] a closer definition than in Ezekiel 2:3 of Ezekiel's immediate audience: see Intro. _(d) The Vision withdrawn (Ezekiel 3:12)_ The voice that has been speaking to Ezekiel has pr...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 *

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    GET THEE TO THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY. — Ezekiel’s mission is now made more definite. In Ezekiel 3:10 he has been told in plain terms what had already been symbolically conveyed under the figure of the ro...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לֵ֨ךְ בֹּ֤א אֶל ־הַ גֹּולָה֙ אֶל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Now it is added, _that he may go and proceed to the captivity, to the children of his own people _We see, then, that God does not regard the Prophet so much as the Israelites, because they had never w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND GO, GET THEE TO THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY,.... Not in the times of Hoshea king of Israel, by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, for these were placed in the cities of the Medes, 2 Kings 17:6; but in the tim...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. Ver. 11....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Go to them of the captivity_ Namely, those made captives with thyself in the reign of King Jehoiachin. _Then the spirit took me up_ Carried me from the place where I was before, when I saw the vision...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, with whom the first part of his message was concerned, AND SPEAK UNTO THEM AND TELL THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; WHETHER T...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 3:11 go H3212 (H8798) get H935 (H8798) captives H1473 children H1121 people H5971 speak H1696 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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'...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 20:26; Acts 20:27; Daniel 12:1; Daniel 6:13; Deuteronomy 9:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Captivity — Of the first captivity under Jeconiah's reign, who succeeded his father Jehoiakim, slain for his conspiracy with Egypt against Nebuchadnezzar....

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