Ezekiel 2:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. ”

Ezekiel 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A rebellious house - A phrase employed continually by Ezekiel in bitter irony, in the place of house of Israel, as much as to say, “House no longer of Israel, but of rebellion.” Compare Isaiah 3...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they [are] a rebellious house), yet shall know that (d) there hath been a prophet among them. (d) This declares on the one part G...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 2:1 to Ezekiel 3:15 . The Call. Ezekiel 2:1-7 . The awful silence is broken by a voice from the Almighty upon His throne, bidding the prostrate prophet rise and accept his commission fo...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

whether they will hear, or... forbear . The latter is evidently assumed, and to be expected; as in 2 Timothy 4:3 . But no alternative is given. " My words " correspond with "preach the word "( 2...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here, again, God exhorts his servant to persevere whatever be the event of his labor, for if we do not succeed according to the desire of our minds, we are inclined to despair: but God wishes u...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. Yet shall know that there hath been a pr...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. Whether they will forbear - namely...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 1. Ezekiel's Call and Consecration as a Prophet (Ezekiel 1-3) Date, June-July, 592 b.c. Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by means of a vision of God's glory ( Ez...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. — Comp. Ezekiel 3:11 . God’s word remains the same whatever reception man may accord to it; it cannot return unto Him void, but must accomplis...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC COMMISSION Ezekiel 2:1-10 ; Ezekiel 3:1-27 THE call of a prophet and the vision of God which sometimes accompanied it are the two sides of one complex experience. The man w...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Hard Commission Ezekiel 2:1-10 ; Ezekiel 3:1-11 The people were impudent and stiff-hearted; their words as briars and thorns; their speech like the poison of scorpions; but the prophet was c...
Ezekiel 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

As the prophet lay prostrate, he heard a voice commanding him to stand on his feet, and he was immediately empowered to do so by the entrance of the Spirit. He was then commissioned to deliver the me...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe the characters to whom the Prophet is sent. The house of Israel. So the Lord Jesus declared. Matthew 15:24 . But then observe, Israel included the whole Church of Christ. Nor so the Holy Gho...
Ezekiel 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear ,.... Or "cease" y; that is, from hearing, as Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it; or from sinning, as the Targum. The sense is, whether the...
Ezekiel 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they [are] a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. Ver. 5. And they, whether they will h...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I send thee to the children of Israel God had for many ages been sending to them his servants the prophets, but to little purpose: they were now sent into captivity for abusing God's messengers; an...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet Commissioned to Reprove. B. C. 595. 1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Though the omniscient God knows which they will do, yet he lets not the prophet know, but enjoins him his duty, affords these sinners the mercy of warnings and calls, and expects that they act like m...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh”, and they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), will yet know that there has been a prophet...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

HOMILETICS (1.) REQUISITES FOR EXECUTING THE COMMISSION ( Ezekiel 2:1-8 ) I. Lively attention . Ezekiel must no longer lie upon his face; he must stand upon his feet if he is rightly to hear the...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 2:1 . Son of man. Here the Messiah, speaking from the throne of glory, gives his servant a humble title, but a title which he himself assumed after his incarnation, being meek and lowly in...
Ezekiel 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

I send thee to the children of Israel. The commission of Ezekiel I. The commission. Is it not an act of infinite condescension, that God should take any notice of us? For what are we? Poor fini...
Ezekiel 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 2:1 Son of man, etc. It is noticeable that the phrase ( ben adam ) , as addressed to a prophet, occurs only in Ezekiel, in whom we find it not less than eighty times,...
Ezekiel 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Commission of Ezekiel to Be the Lord's Prophet. The Lord, having revealed Himself to His servant in the fullness of His divine power and majesty, now issued to him the formal call, extended to...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 2:15-17 ; Acts 13:46 ; Ezekiel 2:7 ; Ezekiel 3:10 ; Ezekiel 3:11 ; Ezekiel 3:19 ; Ezekiel 3:27 ; Ezekiel 33:33 ; Ezekiel 33:9 ; John 15:22 ; Luke 10:10-12 ; Matthew 10:12-15...
Ezekiel 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Shall know — They that obey shall know by the good I will do them, those that will not, by the evil which I will bring upon them.

Ezekiel 2:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 2:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 2:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 2:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 2:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 2:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 2:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 2:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 2:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 2:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 2:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 2:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 2:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 2:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes