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TO MANY PEOPLE - To various nations using diverse languages.
SURELY - The thought is that expressed by our Saviour Himself (margin
reference). Some render it: “but I have sent thee unto these; they
c...
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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...
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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...
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PEOPLE. peoples,...
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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...
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_many people_ Rather: PEOPLES, i.e. different foreign nations.
_Surely, had I sent thee_ More exactly: SURELY IF I SENT THEE … THEY
WOULD HEARKEN. There is some difficulty about the construction, but...
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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...
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Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose
words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they
would have hearkened unto thee.
NOT TO MANY PEOPLE. It w...
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§ 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...
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BRIERS.. THORNS.. SCORPIONS] figures for the opposition of the
Israelites to Ezekiel and his divine message.
_(b) A Symbol of Inspiration (Ezekiel 2:8 to Ezekiel 3:3)_
In Jeremiah's commission God sa...
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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 *
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לֹ֣א ׀ אֶל ־עַמִּ֣ים רַבִּ֗ים
עִמְקֵ֤י שָׂפָה֙...
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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...
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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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Unknown. Hebrew, "heavy." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "hard." (Haydock)
--- It is not above thy strength, Deuteronomy xxx. 12. --- To thee. He
insinuates that the Gentiles would obey the apostles. (St....
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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...
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Now he adds, _not to many peoples _Those who translate _“many” _by
_“great,” _do not understand the Prophet’s meaning, for God had
spoken in the singular number concerning all people, but now he uses...
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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...
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NOT TO MANY PEOPLE OF A STRANGE SPEECH AND OF AN HARD LANGUAGE,....
The prophet was sent, not to different nations, of different
languages; but to one nation of the same language; indeed several of
hi...
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_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...
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DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...
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not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, so
that the learning of a number of languages and dialects would increase
tile difficulties of communication and therefore of proclaimin...
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STRANGE SPEECH AND OF AN HARD LANGUAGE:
_ Heb._ deep of lip, and heavy language
SURELY HAD I SENT THEE TO THEM, THEY WOULD HAVE HEARKENED UNTO THEE:
Or, if I had sent thee etc. would they not have...
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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...
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OLBHeb;
This verse is much what the former, yet strengthens and illustrates
what is laid down there. MANY PEOPLE here may be, according to the
comprehensiveness of the Hebrew word, either numerous, wh...
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Ezekiel 3:6 many H7227 people H5971 unfamiliar H6012 speech H8193 hard
H3515 language H3956 words H1697 understand H8085
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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_Thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech._
THE DANGER OF ABUSED PRIVILEGES
If you consider ministers simply as the labourers of God, you will
perceive that he whose scene of cultivation is...
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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.
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(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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 27:28; Jonah 3:5; Luke 11:30; Matthew 11:20; Matthew 12:41;...
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Many people — Divers nations, that thou shouldest need divers
tongues, to speak to them all in their own language....