3And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.
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We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. …
Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: …
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The title here given to Ezekiel, as often afterwards, is very observable. God, when he speaks to him, calls him, Son of man ( Ezek. 2:1 , 3 ), Son of Adam, Son of the earth . Daniel is once called so (Dan. 8:17) and but once; the compellation is used to no other of the prophets but to Ezekiel all along. We may take it, 1. As a humble diminishing title. Lest Ezekiel should be lifted up with the abu…
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