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Text -- Ezekiel 3:1-17 (NET)

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3:1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you– eat this scroll– and then go and speak to the house of Israel.” 3:2 So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll. 3:3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth. 3:4 He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them. 3:5 For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech and difficult language, but to the house of Israel3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand– surely if I had sent you to them, they would listen to you! 3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to me, for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. 3:8 “I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads. 3:9 I have made your forehead harder than flint– like diamond! Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, for they are a rebellious house.” 3:10 And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully. 3:11 Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, and speak to them– say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”
Ezekiel Before the Exiles
3:12 Then a wind lifted me up and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place, 3:13 and the sound of the living beings’ wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound. 3:14 A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me. 3:15 I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, who lived by the Kebar River. I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days. 3:16 At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: 3:17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Chebar a waterway by the Euphrates River between Babylon and Warka (OS)
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Tel-Abib a town in Babylonia
 · Tel-abib a town in Babylonia


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Impenitence | Minister | Book | Prophets | Adamant | Forehead | Flint | HARD; HARDINESS; HARDDINESS; HARDLY | Roll | Chebar | PROPHECY; PROPHETS, 1 | Word of God | Tel-abib | REVELATION, 3-4 | Tekoa, Tekoah | Eating | Heart | God | Courage | Praise | more
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NET Notes: Eze 3:1 Heb “eat what you find.”

NET Notes: Eze 3:3 I ate it. A similar idea of consuming God’s word is found in Jer 15:16 and Rev 10:10, where it is also compared to honey and may be specifically...

NET Notes: Eze 3:5 The conjunction “but” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied from the context.

NET Notes: Eze 3:6 The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. ...

NET Notes: Eze 3:7 Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”

NET Notes: Eze 3:8 Heb “strong, resolute.”

NET Notes: Eze 3:9 Heb “of their faces.”

NET Notes: Eze 3:11 Heb “to the sons of your people.”

NET Notes: Eze 3:12 This translation accepts the emendation suggested in BHS of בְּרוּם (bÿrum) for בָּ&#...

NET Notes: Eze 3:14 In Ezekiel God’s “hand” being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (1:3; 3:14, 22; 8:1; 37...

NET Notes: Eze 3:15 A similar response to a divine encounter is found in Acts 9:8-9.

NET Notes: Eze 3:16 This phrase occurs about fifty times in the book of Ezekiel.

NET Notes: Eze 3:17 The literal role of a watchman is described in 2 Sam 18:24; 2 Kgs 9:17.

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