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Ezekiel 17:2
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“Son of man, pose a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Yisra'el;
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
"Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
"Son of man, ask a riddle and present a parable to the house of Israel,
"Human, give a riddle and tell a story to the people of Israel.
"Son of man, ask a riddle and tell a parable to the house of Israel,
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Sonne of man, put foorth a parable and speake a prouerbe vnto the house of Israel,
"Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
"Son of man, propound a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
"Son of man, pose a riddle; speak a parable to the house of Israel
Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Israel the following story,
"Human being, propound this riddle, tell the house of Isra'el this allegory,
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,
"Son of man, I have a story with a hidden meaning for you to tell the family of Israel.
Son of man, put forth a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
"Son of man, tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel,
Son of man, put forth a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
Thou sonne of man: put forth a darcke speakynge and a parable, vnto the house of Israel,
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,
'Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,
Sonne of man, put foorth a riddle, and speake a parable vnto the house of Israel,
Thou sonne of man, put foorth a parable, & speake a prouerbe vnto the house of Israel,
Son of man, relate a tale, and speak a parable to the house of Israel:
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
and he seide, Sone of man, sette forth a derk speche, and telle thou a parable to the hous of Israel;
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
"Son of man, offer a riddle, and tell a parable to the house of Israel.
"Son of man, pose a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
"Son of man, give this riddle, and tell this story to the people of Israel.
"Son of man, give the people of Israel this picture-story to think about.
O mortal, propound a riddle, and speak an allegory to the house of Israel.
Son of man Put thou forth a riddle And speak thou a parable,- Unto the house of Israel:
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel,
"Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak an allegory to the house of Israel;
`Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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Ezekiel 20:49, Judges 9:8-15, Judges 14:12-19, 2 Samuel 12:1-4, Hosea 12:10, Matthew 13:13, Matthew 13:14, Matthew 13:35, Mark 4:33, Mark 4:34, 1 Corinthians 13:12
Reciprocal: Numbers 12:8 - dark speeches Numbers 23:7 - he took Jeremiah 23:5 - Branch Ezekiel 2:1 - Son Ezekiel 24:3 - utter Matthew 13:24 - put Mark 12:15 - Why Luke 14:7 - put
Cross-References
"I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants,
I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.
I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!
Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,
"I make this covenant with you: I promise that you will be the ancestor of many nations.
I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.
I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."
From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old, including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me.
Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?"
He asked God, "Why not let Ishmael be my heir?"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Son of man, put forth a riddle,.... A dark saying, but a smart one: "whet a whetting" k, as in the Hebrew; something at first sight difficult to be understood, yet amusing and entertaining; and, when solved, very useful and instructive:
and speak a parable unto the house of Israel; or, "concerning the house of Israel" l; as the Targum and Syriac version; something relating to them, and what would aptly describe and represent their case; for the prophet was bid to take such a method, not to hide things from them, but rather the more strongly to represent them to them; seeing hereby their attention would be excited, and things would be more fixed in their memories, and they would be put upon studying the meaning of them; and when explained to them, and understood, which was quickly done, they might be the more affected with them.
k חוד חידה, Heb. "acue acumen", Piscator. l אל בית ישראל "de domo Israelis", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 17:2. Son of man, put forth a riddle — Riddle, [Anglo-Saxon] or [A.S.], Anglo-Saxon, from [A.S.] to divine; a thing that must be curiously investigated and sifted, to find out the meaning; and hence, riddle, a sort of coarse sieve to clean corn, to separate coarse chaff and straws from the pure grain. An instrument formerly used for divination. This is not far removed from the Hebrew חידה chidah, from חד chad, to penetrate; not that which penetrates the mind, but which we must penetrate to find out the sense.