Ezequiel 2:6

Filipino Cebuano Bible

6 Ug ikaw, anak sa tawo, ayaw kahadlok kanila, ni mahadlok sa ilang mga pulong, bisan pa ang mga sampinit ug mga tunok manlagbas kanimo, ug ikaw magapuyo sa taliwala sa mga tanga: ayaw kahadlok sa ilang mga pulong, ni malisang sa ilang mga tinan-awan, bisan sila usa ka balay nga masukolon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

be not: Ezekiel 3:8, Ezekiel 3:9, 2 Kings 1:15, Isaiah 51:12, Jeremiah 1:8, Jeremiah 1:17, Micah 3:8, Matthew 10:28, Luke 12:4, Acts 4:13, Acts 4:19, Acts 4:29, Ephesians 6:19, Philippians 1:28, 2 Timothy 1:7

briers: or, rebels, 2 Samuel 23:6, 2 Samuel 23:7, Isaiah 9:18, Jeremiah 6:28, Micah 7:4

scorpions: Luke 10:19, Revelation 9:3-6

though they: Ezekiel 3:9, Ezekiel 3:26, Ezekiel 3:27, Proverbs 30:13, Proverbs 30:14, Isaiah 51:7, Jeremiah 18:18, Amos 7:10-17, Hebrews 11:27, 1 Peter 3:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:1 - and told Exodus 6:29 - speak Exodus 8:1 - Go Exodus 17:5 - Go on 1 Kings 12:11 - scorpions Nehemiah 6:13 - that I should Psalms 120:6 - soul Proverbs 7:13 - with an impudent face said Isaiah 6:5 - I dwell Isaiah 8:11 - instructed Jeremiah 15:10 - a man Jeremiah 36:14 - took Ezekiel 2:1 - Son Ezekiel 12:2 - thou Ezekiel 16:5 - eye Ezekiel 24:3 - the rebellious Habakkuk 1:3 - General Matthew 10:26 - Fear Mark 12:14 - carest Luke 11:12 - a scorpion John 14:27 - afraid Acts 4:11 - you Acts 18:9 - Be

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them,.... Of any of them, the greatest among them, their princes and nobles; who, by their grandeur and authority, their stern looks, and big words, might awe and terrify him; wherefore it follows:

neither be afraid of their words; of their calumnies, revilings, and reproaches, their scoffs and jeers, their menaces and threatenings:

though briers and thorns [be] with thee; that is, men comparable to such; wicked men are like to briers and thorns, 2 Samuel 23:6; are grieving, pricking, and distressing to good men, and are of no worth and value; are useless and unprofitable, and fit fuel for everlasting burning. The Targum is,

"for they are rebellious, and hard against thee;''

so Jarchi and Kimchi explain the first word, סרבים, translated "briers", as signifying rebellious and disobedient; though the former observes, that R. Donesh interprets it of a kind of thorns, of which there are twenty names, and this is one:

and thou dost dwell among scorpions; that is, as the Targum paraphrases it,

"thou dwellest in the midst of a people whose works are like to scorpions.''

Some interpret it, as Kimchi observes, of sharp thorns, of a thorny plant that grows in the form of a scorpion a; but scorpions here are a kind of serpents, subtle, venomous, and mischievous, which have stings in their tails; which, as Pliny says, they are continually thrusting out, and striking with, that they may lose no opportunity of doing hurt b; and fitly describe wicked men their subtlety and mischievous nature,

be not afraid of their words; as before; with which they are like briers, thorns, and scorpions, being very grievous, defamatory, and mischievous:

nor be dismayed at their looks: their frowning furious, and angry countenances; forbidding with which, as well as with their words, the prophet from prophesying unto them:

though, or "for",

they [be] a rebellious house; 2 Samuel 23:6- :.

a Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 21. c. 15. and l. 22. c. 16. b Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 2:6. Be not afraid of them — They will maltreat thee for thy message; but let not the apprehension of this induce thee to suppress it. Though they be rebels, fear them not; I will sustain and preserve thee.