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Scott's Reference Library
Ezekiel 2:8 through Ezekiel 3:11 (NIV)
8But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that
rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
9Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll,
10which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament
and mourning and woe.
Ezekiel 3
1And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then
go and speak to the house of Israel.” 2So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the
scroll to eat.
3Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your
stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
4He then said to me: “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak my
words to them. 5You are not being sent to a people of obscure speech and
difficult language, but to the house of Israel—6not to many peoples of obscure
speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I
had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7But the house of Israel
is not willing to listen to you because they are not willing to listen to me,
for the whole house of Israel is hardened and obstinate. 8But I will make you as
unyielding and hardened as they are. 9I will make your forehead like the hardest
stone, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or terrified by them, though
they are a rebellious house.”
10And he said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully and take to heart all the
words I speak to you. 11Go now to your countrymen in exile and speak to them.
Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ whether they listen or fail
to listen.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 6-10
Those who will do any thing to purpose in the service of God, must not fear men.
Wicked men are as briers and thorns; but they are nigh unto cursing, and their
end is to be burned. The prophet must be faithful to the souls of those to whom
he was sent. All who speak from God to others, must obey his voice. The
discoveries of sin, and the warnings of wrath, should be matter of lamentation.
And those acquainted with the word of God, will clearly perceive it is filled
with woe to impenitent sinners; and that all the precious promises of the gospel
are for the repenting, believing servants of the Lord.
VERSES 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 speak terror to the wicked. He must
speak all that, and that only, which God spake to him. How can we better speak
God’s mind than with his words? If disappointed as to his people, he must not be
offended. The Ninevites were wrought upon by Jonah’s preaching, when Israel was
unhumbled and unreformed. We must leave this unto the Divine sovereignty, and
say, Lord, thy judgments are a great deep. They will not regard the word of the
prophet, for they will not regard the rod of God. Christ promises to strengthen
him. He must continue earnest in preaching, whatever the success might be.