Ezekiel 2:3

And he said unto me, son of man ,.... Now follow his mission and commission, and an account of the persons to whom he was sent:

I send thee to the children of Israel ; that were captives in Babylon, in Jehoiakim's captivity; so Christ was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, Matthew 15:24 ;

to a rebellious nation, that hath rebelled against me ; or, "rebellious Gentiles", F21 אל גוים המורדים "ad gentes, rebelles", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Starckius. ; not the nations of the earth, though Ezekiel did prophesy many things concerning them; but the Jews, the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; or the twelve tribes of Israel, called Gentiles, because they joined with them in their idolatries; and, as Kimchi says, were divided in their evil works; some worshipping the gods of the Ammonites; and some the gods of the Moabites; and all guilty of rebellion and treason in so doing against the God of heaven:

they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day ; which is an aggravation of their rebellion; their fathers had sinned, and they had followed their ill examples, and had continued therein to that day; and as they, did to the times of Christ, when they were about to till up the measure of their iniquity, Matthew 23:31 .