Ezekiel 3:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Ezekiel 3:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have made ... thy forehead strong - I have given thee a strength superior to theirs; a metaphor taken from horned animals.
Ezekiel 3:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Behold, I have made thy (b) face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. (b) God promises his assistance to his ministers, and that he will give them boldness an...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 2:8 to Ezekiel 3:15 . His inspiration is suggestively described by the symbolical swallowing of a book-roll. In Jer. ( Jeremiah 1:9 ) it is more immediately conceived as due to the touch...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Behold . Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. strong . strong, or hard (for endurance). Hebrew. hazak. Same as "harder "( Ezekiel 3:9 ). Compare the name Ezekiel in Title.
Ezekiel 3:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel was forewarned of the obstinacy of the people, yea, even of their desperate wickedness. Now God strengthens him lest he should despair when he saw that he must contend with such aban...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
Ezekiel 3:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces. His name, "Ezekiel," means o...
Ezekiel 3:8 - 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 3:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thy face strong against their faces. — The word strong is the same here as that rendered impudent (marg. stiff ) in Ezekiel 3:7 . Of course it must have a different shade of meaning in its ap...
Ezekiel 3:8 - 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 3:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This roll he was commanded to eat. The writing on the roll was a roll of lamentations and mourning and woe. The prophet declared that having eaten the roll, he found it in his mouth "as honey for swe...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I beg the Reader to pause again and again, while going through the very solemn service of Ezekiel's ordination. What an idea doth it awaken in the mind of its importance. Though the Lord Jesus himsel...
Ezekiel 3:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, I have made the, face strong against their faces ,.... Not that the prophet should have the same sort of impudence and confidence they had; but that God would "give" n him such a face, as it...
Ezekiel 3:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. Ver. 8. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces. ] I have steeled thy fore...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech It would be a great addition to the burden of thy office if thou wert sent, as Jonah was, as a prophet to a foreign nation, and to a people whose l...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet Ordered to Eat the Roll; Instructions Given to the Prophet; The Prophet's Instructions; Ezekiel's Reluctance to Be a Reprover. B. ...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This may be to remove the objection of the prophet, who might plead the softness of his own metal, and pretend shameless sinners will scoff a young prophet out of countenance. Behold, says God, consi...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Behold I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. I have made you forehead as an adamant, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them, nor be dis...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

(3.) RATIFICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION (Chap. Ezekiel 3:4-15 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 3:5-6 . “Of a strange speech and of an hard language.” The marginal reading, deep of lip and heavy of ton...
Ezekiel 3:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 3:3 . The roll was in my mouth as honey. To taste the good word of God is pleasant; but it was bitter in the belly with regard to imprisonment and martyrdom. Revelation 10:9 . No matter;...
Ezekiel 3:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 3:1 Eat that thou findest, etc. The iteration of the command of Ezekiel 2:8 seems to imply, like the words, "be not thou rebellious," in that verse, some reluctance o...
Ezekiel 3:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Divine Strength in the Face of Certain Opposition
Ezekiel 3:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 21:20 ; Acts 7:51-56 ; Exodus 11:4-8 ; Exodus 4:15 ; Exodus 4:16 ; Hebrews 11:27 ; Hebrews 11:32-37 ; Isaiah 50:7 ; Jeremiah 1:18 ; Jeremiah 15:20 ; Micah 3:8
Ezekiel 3:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I have — I have given thee, constancy, and manly carriage. The more impudent wicked people are in their opposition to religion, the more openly and resolutely should God's people appear in the prac...

Ezekiel 3:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 3:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 3:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 3:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 3:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 3:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 3:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 3:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 3:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 3:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 3:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 3:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 3:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes