Ezekiel 2
Ezekiel's Calling and Instruction
Ezekiel His Calling and Message1
He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you."
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The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.
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He said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.
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The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord The LORD.'
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They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, (for they are a rebellious house), yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.
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You, son of man, don't be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions. Don't be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
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You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.
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But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don't be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you."
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When I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was in it.
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He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.
Eze 2:1-10. EZEKIEL'S COMMISSION.
1. Son of man--often applied to Ezekiel; once only to Daniel (Da 8:17), and not to any other prophet. The phrase was no doubt taken from Chaldean usage during the sojourn of Daniel and Ezekiel in Chaldea. But the spirit who sanctioned the words of the prophet implied by it the lowliness and frailty of the prophet as man "lower than the angels," though now admitted to the vision of angels and of God Himself, "lest he should be exalted through the abundance of the revelations" (2Co 12:7). He is appropriately so called as being type of the divine "Son of man" here revealed as "man" (see on Eze 1:26). That title, as applied to Messiah, implies at once His lowliness and His exaltation, in His manifestations as the Representative man, at His first and second comings respectively (Ps 8:4-8; Mt 16:13; 20:18; and on the other hand, Da 7:13, 14; Mt 26:64; Joh 5:27).