So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
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So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
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So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
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So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that roll.
Cross-references (2)
Passages linked to Ezekiel 3:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 25:17 Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
- Acts 26:19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he…
Eze 3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
Ver. 2. So I opened my mouth.] Without delays or consults, I obeyed Christ’s command, et hausi quodammodo donum prophetiae, {a} and yielded to become a prophet. This was well; but not long after, Ezekiel, through infirmity of the flesh, would have declined the office, and therefore sought to lurk among his countrymen at Telabib, {Eze 3:15} till Christ called him out again and newly employed him. {Eze 3:16}
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And he caused me to eat that roll.] See on Eze 3:1.
{a} Alsted. Chronol., 347.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain So, Heb. And; so soon as he had heard…
So, Heb. And; so soon as he had heard he must eat it. I opened my mouth; not to discuss points, but to obey, to show my readiness indeed, and to do what lay on me to do.
He caused me to eat that roll; not by a force compelling me, but by a concurrent help in what the prophet was ready to do.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So I opened my mouth,.... To take in the…
So I opened my mouth,.... To take in the roll, and eat it; he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision; he did all that he could towards eating it, but was not sufficient of himself; and therefore it follows:
and he caused me to eat that roll; he, the Lord, put it into his mouth, caused him to eat it, and tilled him with it, according to his promise, Psa 81:10. The efficacy and sufficiency to think of good things, to meditate upon them, receive and digest them, are of God; it is he that makes men prophets, and able ministers. The Targum is,
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"and I inclined my soul, and he taught me (or made me wise "with") what was written in this roll.''
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Book, in spirit; (Calmet) or in reality, he chewed…
Book, in spirit; (Calmet) or in reality, he chewed the volume. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 3:2-3 Although the scroll looked bitter, Ezekiel found it…
3:2-3 Although the scroll looked bitter, Ezekiel found it as sweet as honey when he ate it. Adam’s disobedience turned bitter, but Ezekiel’s obedience became pleasant and satisfying. Psalm 119:103 also describes God’s words as “sweeter than honey.”
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