Ezekiel 2:4
and the children are brazen-faced and stiff-hearted, I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
1 Kings 22:14And Micaiah said: 'As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak.'
2 Chronicles 36:13And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD, the God of Israel.
Proverbs 21:29A wicked man hardeneth his face; but as for the upright, he looketh well to his way.
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 6:15They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination; yea, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they how to blush; therefore they shall fall among them that fall, at the time that I punish them they shall stumble, saith the LORD.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 2:2-6
The Prophet Commissioned to Reprove. ( b. c. 595.) 1 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. 2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me. 3 And 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. 4 For they are impudent children and stiff-hearted. I do… Read the whole commentary →