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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Ezekiel 2:4

"I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Character;   Church;   Heart;   Impenitence;   Nation;   Prophets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Character of the Wicked;   Heart, Character of the Unrenewed;   Rebellion against God;   Reproof;   Sins, National;   Titles and Names of the Wicked;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prophecy, prophet;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mission;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   Ezekiel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Seraphim;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Roll;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Azmaveth (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The descendants are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’
Hebrew Names Version
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I do sent you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD.
King James Version
For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God .
English Standard Version
The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God .'
New American Standard Bible
"So I am sending you to those who are impudent and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says:'
New Century Version
I am sending you to people who are stubborn and who do not obey. You will say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.'
Amplified Bible
"I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'
World English Bible
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted: I do sent you to them; and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they are impudent children, and stiffe hearted: I do send thee vnto them, & thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God.
Legacy Standard Bible
I am sending you to them who are stiff-faced and strong-hearted children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh.'
Berean Standard Bible
They are obstinate and hardhearted children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says.'
Contemporary English Version
They are stubborn and hardheaded. But I, the Lord God, have chosen you to tell them what I say.
Complete Jewish Bible
Because they are defiant, hardhearted children, I am sending you; and you are to tell them, ‘Here is what Adonai Elohim says.'
Darby Translation
and these children are impudent and hard-hearted: I am sending thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
I am sending you to speak to them, but they are very stubborn. They are very hardheaded, but you must speak to them. You must say, ‘This is what the Lord God says.'
George Lamsa Translation
And they to whom I am sending you are impudent and stubborn children; and you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD God of hosts.
Good News Translation
They are stubborn and do not respect me, so I am sending you to tell them what I, the Sovereign Lord , am saying to them.
Lexham English Bible
And the children are impudent and stubborn, and so I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh!'
Literal Translation
And the sons are stiff of face and hard of heart. I am sending you to them. And you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee I will sende ye vnto a people yt haue rough vysages and stiff stomackes: vnto whom thou shalt saye on this maner: This the LORDE God himselff hath spoken,
American Standard Version
And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and the children are brazen-faced and stiff-hearted, I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD.
King James Version (1611)
For they are impudent children and stiffe hearted: I doe send thee vnto them, and thou shalt say vnto them, Thus sayth the Lord God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they are children of a harde face and stiffe heart, I do sende thee vnto them, and thou shalt say vnto them, Thus saith the Lorde God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord.
English Revised Version
And the children are impudent and stiffhearted; I do send thee unto them: and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the sones ben of hard face, and of vnchastisable herte, to whiche Y sende thee. And thou schalt seie to hem, The Lord God seith these thingis;
Update Bible Version
And the sons are impudent and stiffhearted: I am sending you to them; and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
For [they are] impudent children and obstinate in heart. I send thee to them; and thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
New English Translation
The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.'
New King James Version
For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord GOD.'
New Living Translation
They are a stubborn and hard-hearted people. But I am sending you to say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says!'
New Life Bible
I am sending you to these strong-willed children who show no respect. And you must say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.'
New Revised Standard
The descendants are impudent and stubborn. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, "Thus says the Lord God ."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and it is unto such sons - of shameless face, and emboldened heart, that I am sending thee, - therefore shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they to whom I send thee are children of a hard face, and of an obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord God:
Revised Standard Version
The people also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them; and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons [are] brazen-faced and hard-hearted to whom I am sending thee, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah:

Contextual Overview

1 Then He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet that I may speak with you!" 2 As He spoke to me the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet; and I heard Him speaking to me. 3 Then He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day. 4 "I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD.'5 "As for them, whether they listen or not—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Ezekiel 3:7, Deuteronomy 10:16, Deuteronomy 31:27, 2 Chronicles 30:8, 2 Chronicles 36:13, Psalms 95:8, Isaiah 48:4, Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 6:15, Jeremiah 8:12, Matthew 10:16

impudent: Heb. hard of face, Proverbs 21:29

Thus: 1 Kings 22:14, Jeremiah 26:2, Jeremiah 26:3, Acts 20:26, Acts 20:27

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:6 - a stiffnecked 1 Kings 14:6 - for I am Psalms 75:5 - speak Psalms 105:28 - rebelled Proverbs 7:13 - with an impudent face said Isaiah 57:4 - are ye Jeremiah 7:2 - Hear Jeremiah 7:27 - thou shalt speak Jeremiah 36:21 - And Jehudi Jeremiah 38:21 - this is Ezekiel 11:5 - Speak Amos 7:15 - Go Zechariah 7:12 - their hearts Acts 7:51 - stiffnecked Ephesians 6:20 - boldly

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:31
God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 2:1
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.
Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Genesis 5:1
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.
Genesis 11:10
These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;
Genesis 25:12
Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maid, bore to Abraham;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For [they are] impudent children,.... "Hard of face" w; as is commonly said of impudent persons, that they are brasen faced; they had a whore's forehead, and refused to be ashamed, and made their faces harder than a rock, Jeremiah 3:3; they declared their sin as Sodam, and hid it not; they sinned openly, and could not blush at it:

and stiffhearted; or, "strong of heart" x; whose hearts were like an adamant stone, and harder than the nether millstone; impenitent, obdurate, and inflexible; they were not only stiff-necked, as Stephen says they were in his time, and always had been; but stiff-hearted; they were not subject to the law of God now, nor would they submit to the Gospel and ordinances of Christ in his time, and in the times of his apostles, nor to his righteousness, Romans 10:3;

I do send thee unto them; even to such as they are: this is a repetition, and a confirmation, of his mission; and suggests, that though they were such, he should not refuse to go to them, since he had sent him:

and thou shalt say unto them, thus saith the Lord God: that what he said came from the Lord, and was spoken in his name.

w קשי פנים "duri facie", Pagninus, Vatablus, Calvin, Cocceius, Starckius. x חזקי לב "duri corde", Pagninus, Montanus; "fortes carde", Vatablus, Polanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nation - literally, as in the margin - the word which usually distinguishes the pagan from God’s people. Here it expresses that Israel is cast off by God; and the plural is used to denote that the children of Israel are not even “one nation,” but scattered and disunited.

Translate: “I send thee to the children of Israel, the rebellious nation that have rebelled against Me (they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, even to this very day), and the children impudent and stiff-hearted: I do send thee unto them.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 2:4. Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord — Let them know that what thou hast to declare is the message of the LORD, that they may receive it with reverence.

Every preacher of God's word should take heed that it is God's message he delivers to the people. Let him not suppose, because it is according to his own creed or confession of faith, that therefore it is God's word. False doctrines and fallacies without end are foisted on the world in this way. Bring the creed first to the Word of God, and scrupulously try whether it be right; and when this is done, leave it where you please; take the Bible, and warn them from God's word recorded there.


 
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