Ezekiel 3:6

Ezekiel 3:6

4 Then He said to me: “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.

5 For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel,

6 not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, ^ahad I sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, ^abecause they will not listen to Me; ^bfor all the house of Israel are¹ impudent and hard-hearted.

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

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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many people—It would have increased the difficulty had he been sent, not merely to one, but to "many people" differing in tongues, so that the missionary would have needed to acquire a new tongue for addressing each. The after mission of the apostles to many peoples, and the gift of tongues for that end, are foreshadowed (compare I Corinthians 14:21 with Isaiah 28:11).

had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened— (Matthew 11:21, Matthew 11:23).

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