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Ezekiel 2:4

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’

World English Bible Classic

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

5They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

1 Kings 22:14Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak.”

2 Chronicles 36:13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

Proverbs 21:29A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says 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 →

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