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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Ezekiel 3

Chapter 3

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.

eat

This must have passed in a vision; but the meaning is plain: Receive ny word into thy mind, let it enter into they soul; digest it, let it be they nourishment, they meat and thy drink, to do the will of thy Father who is in heaven.

10 2:8,9 1 Timothy 4:15 Revelation 10:9,10

go

11,15,17-21 2:3 Jeremiah 24:1-7

So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

Jeremiah 25:17 Acts 26:19

And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

and fill

2:10 Job 32:18,19 Jeremiah 6:11 20:9 John 7:38 Colossians 3:16

Then

Psalms 119:11 Jeremiah 15:16 John 6:53-63

it was

Job 23:12 Psalms 19:10 119:97,103 Proverbs 2:10,11 Revelation 10:9,10

And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

11 2:3,7 Matthew 10:5,6 15:24 Acts 1:8

For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

thou

Jonah 1:2 3:2-4 Acts 26:17,18

of a strange speech and of an hard language

Heb. deep of lip and heavy of tongue: and so.

6 Psalms 81:5 Isaiah 33:19

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.

of a strange speech and of an hard language

Heb. deep of lip and heavy of language. Surely, etc. or, If I had sent thee to them, would they not have hearkened? etc.

Jonah 3:5-10 Matthew 11:20-24 12:41,42 Luke 11:30-32 Acts 27:28 Romans 9:30-33

But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.

Israel will

1 Samuel 8:7 Jeremiah 25:3,4 44:4,5,16 Luke 10:16 13:34 19:14 John 5:40-47 John 15:20-24

all the

2:4 24:7 Isaiah 3:9 Jeremiah 3:3 5:3

impudent and hard-hearted

Heb. stiff of forehead and hard of heart.

Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

Exodus 4:15,16 11:4-8 1 Kings 21:20 Isaiah 50:7 Jeremiah 1:18 15:20 Micah 3:8 Acts 7:51-56 Hebrews 11:27,32-37

As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

adamant

Zechariah 7:12

fear

2:6 Isaiah 41:10,14 50:7 Jeremiah 1:8,17 17:18 Micah 3:8 1 Timothy 2:3 2 Timothy 2:6

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears.

receive

1-3 2:8 Job 22:22 Psalms 119:11 Proverbs 8:10 19:20 Luke 8:15 1 Thessalonians 2:13 1 Thessalonians 4:1

And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

get

15 11:24,25 Daniel 6:13

the children

33:2,12,17,30 37:18 Exodus 32:7 Deuteronomy 9:12 Daniel 12:1

speak

27 2:5,7 Acts 20:26,27

Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

spirit

14 2:2 8:3 11:1,24 40:1,2 1 Kings 18:12 2 Kings 2:16 Acts 8:39

a voice

Acts 2:2 Revelation 1:10,15

Blessed

Psalms 72:18,19 103:20,21 148:2 Isaiah 6:3 Revelation 5:11-14 19:6

glory

9:3 10:4,18,19 11:22,23 Exodus 40:34,35 1 Samuel 4:21,22

I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.

the noise

1:24 10:5 2 Samuel 5:24

touched

Heb. kissed. and the noise.

10:16,17

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

the spirit

12 8:3 37:1

in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit

Heb. bitter in hot anger.

Numbers 11:11-19 Jeremiah 6:11 20:14-18 John 4:1,3,9

but

1:3 8:1 37:1 1 Kings 18:46 2 Kings 2:16 3:15 Jeremiah 20:7-9

Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

that dwelt

23 1:1 10:15 43:3

sat

Genesis 50:10 Job 2:13 Psalms 137:1 Jeremiah 23:9 Habakkuk 3:16

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

I have

33:2-9 1 Corinthians 12:28

a watchman

Song of Solomon 3:3 5:7 Isaiah 21:6,8,11,12 52:8 56:10 62:6 Jeremiah 6:17 31:6 Acts 20:28-31 Hebrews 13:17

hear

33:6-8 2 Chronicles 19:10 Isaiah 58:1 Jeremiah 6:10 Habakkuk 2:1 Matthew 3:7 1 Corinthians 4:14 2 Corinthians 5:11,20 Colossians 1:28 1 Thessalonians 5:14

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

I say

18:4,13,20 33:6,8 Genesis 2:17 3:3,4 Numbers 26:65 2 Kings 1:4 Isaiah 3:11 Luke 13:3,5 Ephesians 5:5,6

to save

18:30-32 Acts 2:40 3:19 1 Timothy 4:16 James 5:19,20

the same

33:6,9,10 Proverbs 14:32 John 8:21,24

but

34:10 Genesis 9:5,6 42:22 2 Samuel 4:11 Luke 11:50,51 Acts 20:26,27 1 Timothy 5:22

Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

if thou

2 Kings 17:13-23 2 Chronicles 36:15,16 Proverbs 29:1 Jeremiah 42:19-22 44:4,5 Luke 10:10,11 Acts 18:5,6 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Hebrews 2:1-3 12:25

he shall

18 2 Thessalonians 1:8,9 Hebrews 10:26,27

but thou

21 14:14,20 33:5,9 Isaiah 49:4,5 Acts 13:45,46 20:26 2 Corinthians 2:15-17

Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

When

18:24,26 33:12,13 2 Chronicles 24:2,17-22 Psalms 36:3 125:5 Zephaniah 1:6 Matthew 13:20,21 Hebrews 10:38 2 Peter 2:18-22 1 John 2:19

righteousness

Heb. righteousnesses.

Isaiah 64:6 Daniel 9:18

and I lay

7:19 14:3,7-9 Deuteronomy 13:3 Psalms 119:165 *marg:; Isaiah 8:14 Jeremiah 6:21 Luke 2:34 Romans 9:32,33 11:9 1 Corinthians 1:23 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 1 Peter 2:8

because

18 Leviticus 19:17 2 Samuel 12:7-13 2 Chronicles 19:2-4 25:15 Proverbs 25:12 Matthew 18:15

and his

18:24,26 33:12,13 Matthew 12:43-45 Luke 8:15 Romans 2:7,8 Hebrews 10:38 2 Peter 2:21

but his

18 33:6 Hebrews 13:17

Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

if thou

Matthew 24:24,25 Acts 20:31 1 Corinthians 4:14 10:12 Galatians 1:6-10 5:2-7 Ephesians 4:17-21 5:5,6 Colossians 1:28 3:5-8 1 Thessalonians 4:6-8 5:14 Titus 2:15 1 John 3:6-9 Revelation 3:19

he shall

20 Psalms 19:11 Proverbs 9:9 17:10 Galatians 2:11-13 James 5:20

also

19 1 Timothy 4:16

And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

the hand

14 1:3 37:1

Arise

8:4 Acts 9:6

Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

the glory

1:4,28 9:3 10:18 Numbers 16:19,42 Acts 7:55

river

1:1-3

and I fell

1:28 Daniel 8:17 10:8,9 Revelation 1:17 4:10 5:8,14

Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

the spirit

2:2 37:10 Daniel 10:8-10,19

Go

4:1-4

But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

4:8 Mark 3:21 John 21:18 Acts 9:16 20:23 21:11-13

And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

I will

24:27 Psalms 51:15 137:6 Jeremiah 1:17 Luke 1:20-22

and shalt

Psalms 36:11,12 Lamentations 2:9 Hosea 4:17 Amos 5:10 8:11,12 Micah 3:6,7

a reprover

Heb. a man reproving. for.

2:3-8 Isaiah 1:2

But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

I will

11:25 24:27 29:21 33:32 Exodus 4:11,12 Luke 21:15 Ephesians 6:19

Thus

11 2:5 Matthew 11:15 13:9 Revelation 22:10,11

for they

9,26 12:2,3