Ezekiel 3

Ezekiel 3
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Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from the early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
Book	Book of Ezekiel
Category	Nevi'im
Christian Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Christian part	26

Ezekiel 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Ezekiel, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets. This chapter contains the call for Ezekiel to speak to people of Israel and to act as a sentry for them.

Text

The original text is written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 27 verses.

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

• Masoretic Text (10th century)
• Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

• Septuagint
• Theodotion version (~AD 180)

Verse 3

And He said to me,

"Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you."

So I ate,

and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness.

• "Like honey in sweetness": Although the scroll contains "lamentations and mourning and woe" (Ezekiel 2:10), when eaten it tastes "as sweet as honey" in the mouth (Revelation 10:9–10).

Verse 15

Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar;

and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. (NKJV)

• "Tel Abib" (Hebrew: תל-אביב, Tel Aviv; lit. "Spring Mound", where "Spring (Aviv) is the season") is an unidentified place on the Kebar Canal, near Nippur in what is now Iraq. The Kebar or Chebar river was part of a complex network of irrigation and transport canals that also included the Shatt el-Nil, a silted up canal toward the east of Babylon.

Verse 23

So I arose and went out into the plain, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face. (NKJV)

• "River Chebar": see notes on "Tel Abib" in verse 15.

Verse 27

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth,

and you shall say to them,

"Thus says the Lord God."

He who hears, let him hear;

and he who refuses, let him refuse;

for they are a rebellious house.

See also

• Chebar River

• Son of man

• Related Bible parts: Ezekiel 1, Ezekiel 10, Ezekiel 43, Mark 4, Revelation 10

Bibliography

• Joyce, Paul M. (2009). Ezekiel: A Commentary. Continuum. ISBN 9780567483614.

External links

Jewish

• Ezekiel 3 Hebrew with Parallel English
• Ezekiel 3 Hebrew with Rashi's Commentary

Christian

• Ezekiel 3 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate