Ezekiel 3-17

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 3

In this chapter we have the further preparation of the prophet for the work to which God called him. I. His eating the roll that was presented to him in the close of the foregoing chapter, Ezek. 3:1-3. II. Further instructions and encouragements given him to the same purport with those in the foregoing chapter, Ezek. 3:4-11. III. The mighty impulse he was under, with which he was carried to those that were to be his hearers, Ezek. 3:12-15. IV. A further explication of his office and business... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 3:1-15

These verses are fitly joined by some translators to the foregoing chapter, as being of a piece with it and a continuation of the same vision. The prophets received the word from God that they might deliver it to the people of God, furnished themselves that they might furnish them with the knowledge of the mind and will of God. Now here the prophet is taught, I. How he must receive divine revelation himself, Ezek. 3:1. Christ (whom he saw upon the throne, Ezek. 1:26) said to him, ?Son of man,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 3:16-21

These further instructions God gave to the prophet at the end of seven days, that is, on the seventh day after the vision he had; and it is very probably that both that and this were on the sabbath day, which the house of Israel, even in their captivity, observed as well as they could in those circumstances. We do not find that their conquerors and oppressors tied them to any constant service, as their Egyptian task-masters had formerly done, but that they might observe the sabbath-rest for a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 3:22-27

After all this large and magnificent discovery which God had made of himself to the prophet, and the full instructions he had given him how to deal with those to whom he sent him with an ample commission, we should have expected presently to see him preaching the word of God to a great congregation of Israel; but here we find it quite otherwise. his work here, at first, seems not at all proportionable to the pomp of his call. I. We have him here retired for further learning. By his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 3

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 3 This chapter contains a further account of the prophet's call and mission; of his preparation of him for is work; of, the persons to whom he was sent; of what happened to him upon this; of the nature of his office, and the work of it; and of what followed upon the renewal of his call. His further preparation for prophesying is in Ezekiel 3:1 ; where he is bid to eat the roll showed him, which he did, and found it in his mouth as honey for sweetness; and then he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 3:1

Moreover he said unto me ,.... The same glorious Person who had been speaking all along in the preceding chapter; and who was seen by the prophet on a sapphire throne, and described in Ezekiel 1:26 ; the first fifteen verses of this chapter are by Junius and Tremellius made a part of the second: son of man, eat that thou findest ; not anything, but what he found in the hand sent unto him; wherefore the Targum is, "son of man, receive what is given thee;' which was the roll, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 3:2

So I opened my mouth ,.... To take in the roll, and eat it; he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision; he did all that he could towards eating it, but was not sufficient of himself; and therefore it follows: and he caused me to eat that roll ; he, the Lord, put it into his mouth, caused him to eat it, and tilled him with it, according to his promise, Psalm 81:10 . The efficacy and sufficiency to think of good things, to meditate upon them, receive and digest them, are of God; it is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 3:3

And he said unto me, son of man, cause thy belly to eat ,.... Or "devour" F6 תאכל "devoret, consumat", Vatablus. , and consume; that is, concoct and digest; do not cast it out of thy mouth, as soon as thou hast tasted of it; but let it go down into the stomach, and there digest it; and from thence into the belly, that so, upon the whole, virtue may be received, and nourishment come by it: and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee ; eat to satiety; so the Targum, "son... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 3:4

And he said unto me, son of man, go ,.... After he had eaten the roll; for then was he qualified to prophesy: get thee unto the house of Israel ; to whom he was to prophesy: and speak with my words unto them : not with his own words; nor with the words of men, the enticing words of man's wisdom; but with the words of Christ; with the taught words of the Holy Ghost; with what is written in the roll; the words of this prophecy are meant. So the Targum, "and thou shalt prophesy the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 3:5

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech ,.... "Deep of lip" F7 עמקי שפה "profundi labii", Vatablus; "profundorum labio", Polanus, Cocceius; "profundi sermonis", Starkius. , or "speech"; difficult to be got at and understood: and of a hard language : or "heavy of tongue" F8 כבדי לשון "graves linguae", Montanus; "gravium lingua", Polanus. of a barbarous and unknown language, whom he could not understand, nor they him; and so would have been barbarians to... read more

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