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Christian Standard Bible ®

Ezekiel 3:8

Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Impenitence;   Minister, Christian;   Thompson Chain Reference - Leaders;   Ministers;   Religious;   Responsibility;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;   Rebellion against God;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Flint;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Forehead;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ezekiel;   Forehead;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Individual;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Forehead;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Roll;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Forehead;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ezekiel;   God;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
King James Version
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
English Standard Version
Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
New American Standard Bible
"Behold, I have made your face just as hard as their faces, and your forehead just as hard as their foreheads.
New Century Version
See, I now make you as stubborn and as hard as they are.
Amplified Bible
"Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
World English Bible
Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, I haue made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead harde against their foreheads.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, I have made your face as strong as their faces and your forehead as strong as their foreheads.
Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.
Contemporary English Version
so I will make you as stubborn as they are.
Complete Jewish Bible
However, I am making you as defiant and obstinate as they are.
Darby Translation
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
Easy-to-Read Version
But I will make you just as stubborn as they are, and your head just as hard.
George Lamsa Translation
Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
Good News Translation
Now I will make you as stubborn and as tough as they are.
Lexham English Bible
But look, I have made your face hard against their faces and your forehead hard against their forehead.
Literal Translation
Behold, I have made your face strong over against their faces, and your forehead strong over against their foreheads.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde therfore, I will make thy face preuayle agaynst their faces, and harden thy foreheade agaynst their foreheades:
American Standard Version
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
Bible in Basic English
See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your brow hard against their brows.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
King James Version (1611)
Behold, I haue made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde therefore, I haue made thy face strong against their faces, & thy forehead strong against their foreheades.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And, behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen thy power against their power.
English Revised Version
Behold, I have made thy face hard against their faces, and thy forehead hard against their foreheads.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lo! Y yaf thi face strongere than the faces of hem, and thi forheed hardere than the forheedis of hem.
Update Bible Version
Look, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
New English Translation
"I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.
New King James Version
Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
New Living Translation
But look, I have made you as obstinate and hard-hearted as they are.
New Life Bible
See, I have made you as strong-willed and as hard as they are.
New Revised Standard
See, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Lo! I have made thy face bold like as their faces, and thy forehead bold like as their forehead.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I have made thy face stronger than their faces: and thy forehead harder than their foreheads.
Revised Standard Version
Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.
Young's Literal Translation
`Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead.

Contextual Overview

1He said to me: “Son of man, eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.” 2So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll. 3“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. 4Then he said to me: “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them. 5For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech or a difficult language but to the house of Israel— 6not 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. 7But 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. 8Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9I 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.” 10Next he said to me: “Son of man, listen carefully to all my words that I speak to you and take them to heart.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 4:15, Exodus 4:16, Exodus 11:4-8, 1 Kings 21:20, Isaiah 50:7, Jeremiah 1:18, Jeremiah 15:20, Micah 3:8, Acts 7:51-56, Hebrews 11:27, Hebrews 11:32-37

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 18:18 - I have not Jeremiah 1:8 - not afraid Jeremiah 6:27 - General Ezekiel 2:6 - be not

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Genesis 3:2
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
Genesis 3:9
So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:10
And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
Genesis 3:12
The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.
Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”
Deuteronomy 4:33
Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?
Deuteronomy 5:25
But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us and we will die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I have made the, face strong against their faces,.... Not that the prophet should have the same sort of impudence and confidence they had; but that God would "give" n him such a face, as it is in the Hebrew text, such spirit and courage, that he should neither be ashamed of the words of the Lord, nor afraid to speak them to this people; so that he should be a match for them; they should not be able to outface him, or look him out of countenance; he should behave with an undaunted spirit, and with great intrepidity, amidst all opposition made to him: the Lord fits his ministers for the people he sends them to, and gives them courage and strength proportionate to the opposition they meet with; as their day is, their strength is; and all that invincible courage, boldness, and strength, with which they are endowed, it is all from the Lord, and a gift of his:

and thy forehead strong against their foreheads; which is the same thing in different words.

n נתתי את פניך "dedi faciem tuam", V. L. Vatablus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have made ... thy forehead strong - I have given thee a strength superior to theirs; a metaphor taken from horned animals.


 
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