Ezekiel 2:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 2

⁴For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 2:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 3:7
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
Jeremiah 6:15
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Psalms 95:8
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Isaiah 48:4
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

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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 abundan…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. impudent--literally, “hard-faced” (Eze 3:7, 9). children--resumptive of “they” (Eze 2:3); the “children” walk in their “fathers’” steps. I ... send thee--God opposes His command to all obstacles. Duties are ours; events are God’s. Thus saith the Lord God--God opposes His name to the obstinacy of the people.