Berean Standard Bible
Ezekiel 3:8
8Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Ezekiel 3:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
- New International Version (NIV)But I will make you as unyielding and hardened as they are.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
Context of Ezekiel 3:8
6not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house.” 10“Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart.
Read all of Ezekiel 3Ezekiel 3:8 word by word
הִנֵּ֨ה נָתַ֧תִּי אֶת־פָּנֶ֛יךָ חֲזָקִ֖ים לְעֻמַּ֣ת פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וְאֶֽת־מִצְחֲךָ֥ חָזָ֖ק לְעֻמַּ֥ת מִצְחָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Ezekiel 3:8
- Exodus 4:15You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.
- Exodus 11:4So Moses declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
- 1 Kings 21:20When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Isaiah 50:7Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
- Jeremiah 1:18Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
- Jeremiah 15:20Then I will make you a wall to this people, a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to save and deliver you, declares the LORD.
- Micah 3:8As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
- Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Hebrews 11:27By faith Moses left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw Him who is invisible.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 3:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8I have made thy forehead strong - I have given thee a strength superior to theirs; a metaphor taken from horned animals.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-9God would make Ezekiel as persistent in delivering his message as the people were in rejecting it.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Ezekiel means one "strengthened by God." Such he was in godly firmness, in spite of his people's opposition, according to the divine command to the priest tribe to which he belonged (De 33:9).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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