# Ezekiel 03 📖 [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Ezekiel Overview]] | [[Ezekiel 02]] | [[Ezekiel 04]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) [[#Verse 01.]] He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.” [[#Verse 02.]] So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll. [[#Verse 03.]] “Son of man,” he said to me, “feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. [[#Verse 04.]] Then he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them. [[#Verse 05.]] For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or a difficult language but to the house of Israel— [[#Verse 06.]] not to the many peoples of unintelligible speech or a difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. No doubt, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you. [[#Verse 07.]] But the house of Israel will not want to listen to you because they do not want to listen to me. For the whole house of Israel is hardheaded and hardhearted. [[#Verse 08.]] Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. [[#Verse 09.]] I have made your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them or discouraged by the look on their faces, though they are a rebellious house.” [[#Verse 10.]] Next he said to me, “Son of man, listen carefully to all my words that I speak to you and take them to heart. [[#Verse 11.]] Go to your people, the exiles, and speak to them. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.” [[#Verse 12.]] The Spirit then lifted me up, and I heard a loud rumbling sound behind me—bless the glory of the Lord in his place!— [[#Verse 13.]] with theA sound of the living creatures’ wings brushing against each other and the sound of the wheels beside them, a loud rumbling sound. [[#Verse 14.]] The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I left in bitterness and in an angry spirit, and the Lord’s hand was on me powerfully. [[#Verse 15.]] I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were living by the Chebar Canal, and I sat there among them stunned for seven days. [[#Verse 16.]] Now at the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: [[#Verse 17.]] “Son of man, I have made you a watchman over the house of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, give them a warning from me. [[#Verse 18.]] If I say to the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him—you don’t speak out to warn him about his wicked way in order to save his life—that wicked person will die for his iniquity. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood. [[#Verse 19.]] But if you warn a wicked person and he does not turn from his wickedness or his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have rescued yourself. [[#Verse 20.]] Now if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts unjustly, and I put a stumbling block in front of him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die because of his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. Yet I will hold you responsible for his blood. [[#Verse 21.]] But if you warn the righteous person that he should not sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he listened to your warning, and you will have rescued yourself.” [[#Verse 22.]] The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and I will speak with you there.” [[#Verse 23.]] So I got up and went out to the plain. The Lord’s glory was present there, like the glory I had seen by the Chebar Canal, and I fell facedown. [[#Verse 24.]] The Spirit entered me and set me on my feet. He spoke with me and said, “Go, shut yourself inside your house. [[#Verse 25.]] As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so you cannot go out among them. [[#Verse 26.]] I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be mute and unable to be a mediator for them, for they are a rebellious house. [[#Verse 27.]] But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you will say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’ Let the one who listens, listen, and let the one who refuses, refuse—for they are a rebellious house. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== **Verse 1-3**. - Parallel to the Book of Revelation. An angel asked John to eat a scroll. ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application **Today, I can apply this chapter by:** - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 %% Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 - 🔗 ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection - coming soon. %% Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." %% ##### 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes