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Ezekiel 2 — Sermon Preparation
God raises Ezekiel to his feet and commissions him as a prophet to Israel's stubborn and rebellious people. Below is a research summary for Ezekiel 2, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 9
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Ezekiel 2 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מְרִי | mᵉrîy | H4805 | 5 | bitterness, rebellion |
| דָבַר | dâbar | H1696 | 5 | arrange, speak |
| אָדָם | ʼâdâm | H120 | 4 | ruddy, human being |
| שָׁמַע | shâmaʻ | H8085 | 4 | hear, tell |
| יָרֵא | yârêʼ | H3372 | 3 | fear, revere |
| מָרַד | mârad | H4775 | 2 | rebel |
| שָׁלַח | shâlach | H7971 | 3 | send |
How preachers through history handled this text
9 public-domain excerpts on Ezekiel 2, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“9. And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; 9. Et aspexi, et ecce marius emissa ad me, et ecce in ea volumen libri; 10. And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. 10. Et explicuit coram facie mea, et ecce scriptum erat volumen a facie et retro, et scriptura lamentationes, et carmen, et we. Now the Prophet more fully explains what we have just dwelt upon. …”
— Calvin, Commentary on Ezekiel - Volume 1, on Ezekiel 2:9–30 (Public Domain)
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