Ezekiel 3:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

This verse gives us sufficient account why the prophet staid these seven days; it was because the particular word he was to speak to them was not yet declared to him. He had a call and commission to be a prophet, and comes in this character to these Jews, but till seven days are ended he receives no particular word, when by his carriage among the Jews it appeared he was more than a common man, that he was full of matter more than ordinary; then came the word of the Lord, saying,

Ezekiel 3:16

16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,