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They and their ancestors have been rebelling against me to this very day. <a href="/esv/ezekiel/2.htm">English Standard Version</a> And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/2.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> “Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me. <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/2.htm">King James Bible</a> And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/2.htm">New King James Version</a> And He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day. <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/2.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> 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 revolted against Me to this very day. <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/2.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then He said to me, &#8220Son 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. <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/2.htm">NASB 1977 </a> 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. <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/2.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> 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. <a href="/amp/ezekiel/2.htm">Amplified Bible</a> And He said to me, “I am sending you, son of man, to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people [in both the north and the south] that have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have sinned and revolted against Me to this very day. <a href="/csb/ezekiel/2.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebellious pagans who have rebelled against me. The Israelites and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this day. <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/2.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> He said to me: &#8220Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebellious pagans who have rebelled against Me. The Israelites and their ancestors have transgressed against Me to this day. <a href="/asv/ezekiel/2.htm">American Standard Version</a> And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/2.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Ezekiel, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are just like their ancestors who rebelled against me and refused to stop. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/2.htm">English Revised Version</a> And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/2.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They are people from a nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have rebelled against me to this day. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/2.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Mortal man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They have rebelled and turned against me and are still rebels, just as their ancestors were. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/2.htm">International Standard Version</a> "Son of Man, I'm sending you to that rebellious people, the Israelis, who have rebelled against me the same way their ancestors did. And they're still rebels to this very day! <a href="/msb/ezekiel/2.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> ?Son of man,? He said to me, ?I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me. <a href="/net/ezekiel/2.htm">NET Bible</a> He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day. <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/2.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> He said to me, "Son of man, I send you to the house of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/2.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And he said to me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me: even to this very day. <a href="/web/ezekiel/2.htm">World English Bible</a> He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/2.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And He says to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to rebelling nations who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, to this very day. <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/2.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And He saith unto Me, 'Son of man, I am sending thee unto the sons of Israel, unto nations who are rebels, who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, unto this self-same day. <a href="/slt/ezekiel/2.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And he will say to me, Son of man, I send thee to the sons of Israel, to rebellious nations who rebelled against me: they and their fathers transgressed against me even to this same day.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/2.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/2.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> and saying: “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to an apostate nation, which has withdrawn from me. They and their fathers have betrayed my covenant, even to this day. <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/2.htm">New American Bible</a> say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/2.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> He said to me, Mortal, I am sending you to the people of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this very day.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/2.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people who have risen up against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/2.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And he said to me: “Son of man, I am sending to the children of Israel, to the rebel people who rebelled against me, those and their fathers, and they have done evil to me until today<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/2.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And He said unto me: 'Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to rebellious nations, that have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me, even unto this very day; <a href="/sep/ezekiel/2.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And he said to me, Son of Man, I send thee forth to the house of Israel, them that provoke me; who have provoked me, they and their fathers to this day. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=306" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/2.htm">Ezekiel's Call</a> …2And as He spoke to me, the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and I heard Him speaking to me. 3<a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ben- (N-msc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">“Son</a> <a href="/hebrew/120.htm" title="120: ’ā·ḏām (N-ms) -- Man, mankind. From 'adam; ruddy i.e. A human being.">of man,”</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: way·yō·mer (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">He said</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’ê·lay (Prep:: 1cs) -- To, into, towards. ">to me,</a> <a href="/hebrew/589.htm" title="589: ’ă·nî (Pro-1cs) -- I. Contracted from 'anokiy; I.">“I</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·wṯ·ḵā (DirObjM:: 2ms) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: šō·w·lê·aḥ (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">am sending</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">you to</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: bə·nê (N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">the Israelites,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity."></a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/4775.htm" title="4775: ham·mō·wr·ḏîm (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- To rebel. A primitive root; to rebel.">a rebellious</a> <a href="/hebrew/1471.htm" title="1471: gō·w·yim (N-mp) -- Rarely goy; apparently from the same root as gevah; a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts.">nation</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/4775.htm" title="4775: mā·rə·ḏū- (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To rebel. A primitive root; to rebel.">has rebelled</a> <a href="/hebrew/ḇî (Prep:: 1cs) -- ">against Me.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ- (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">To</a> <a href="/hebrew/6106.htm" title="6106: ‘e·ṣem (N-fsc) -- Bone, substance, self. From atsam; a bone; by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. Selfsame."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2088.htm" title="2088: haz·zeh (Art:: Pro-ms) -- This, here. A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.">this very</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: hay·yō·wm (Art:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">day</a> <a href="/hebrew/1992.htm" title="1992: hêm·māh (Pro-3mp) -- They. Or hemmah; masculine plural from halak; they.">they</a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: wa·’ă·ḇō·w·ṯām (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3mp) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">and their fathers</a> <a href="/hebrew/6586.htm" title="6586: pā·šə·‘ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To rebel, transgress. A primitive root; to break away, i.e. Trespass, apostatize, quarrel.">have rebelled</a> <a href="/hebrew/ḇî (Prep:: 1cs) -- ">against Me.</a> 4They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/jeremiah/1-7.htm">Jeremiah 1:7</a> But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak. <a href="/isaiah/6-8.htm">Isaiah 6:8-9</a> Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here am I. Send me!” / And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ <a href="/jeremiah/1-17.htm">Jeremiah 1:17-19</a> Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them. / Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. / They will fight against you but will never overcome you, since I am with you to deliver you,” declares the LORD. <a href="/exodus/3-10.htm">Exodus 3:10</a> Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.” <a href="/isaiah/1-2.htm">Isaiah 1:2</a> Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me. <a href="/jeremiah/2-4.htm">Jeremiah 2:4-5</a> Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel. / This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves. <a href="/hosea/4-1.htm">Hosea 4:1</a> Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! <a href="/amos/3-1.htm">Amos 3:1</a> Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: <a href="/matthew/10-5.htm">Matthew 10:5-6</a> These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go onto the road of the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. / Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. <a href="/matthew/15-24.htm">Matthew 15:24</a> He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” <a href="/john/1-11.htm">John 1:11</a> He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. <a href="/acts/7-51.htm">Acts 7:51-52</a> You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did. / Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers— <a href="/romans/10-21.htm">Romans 10:21</a> But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.” <a href="/acts/28-25.htm">Acts 28:25-27</a> They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet: / ‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.” / For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’ <a href="/luke/10-16.htm">Luke 10:16</a> Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even to this very day.I send<a href="/ezekiel/3-4.htm">Ezekiel 3:4-8</a> And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them… <a href="/2_chronicles/36-15.htm">2 Chronicles 36:15,16</a> And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: … <a href="/isaiah/6-8.htm">Isaiah 6:8-10</a> Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me… a rebellious nation.<a href="/ezekiel/16-1.htm">Ezekiel 16:1-63</a> Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, … <a href="/ezekiel/20-1.htm">Ezekiel 20:1-49</a> And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me… <a href="/ezekiel/23-1.htm">Ezekiel 23:1-49</a> The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, … rebelled<a href="/ezekiel/20-18.htm">Ezekiel 20:18-30</a> But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: … <a href="/numbers/20-10.htm">Numbers 20:10</a> And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?<a href="/numbers/32-13.htm">Numbers 32:13,14</a> And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/lamentations/5-13.htm">Children</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-7.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-5.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-15.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-17.htm">Nation</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-20.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-42.htm">Rebelled</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-20.htm">Rebellious</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-28.htm">Rebels</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-5.htm">Sending</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-16.htm">Sinners</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-42.htm">Transgressed</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-20.htm">Uncontrolled</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/2-4.htm">Children</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-10.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-5.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/ezekiel/36-13.htm">Nation</a> <a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/ezekiel/5-6.htm">Rebelled</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-5.htm">Rebellious</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-38.htm">Rebels</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-4.htm">Sending</a> <a href="/daniel/9-5.htm">Sinners</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-31.htm">Transgressed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-5.htm">Uncontrolled</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 2</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/2-1.htm">Ezekiel's commission</a> 6. <a href="/ezekiel/2-6.htm">His instruction</a> 9. <a href="/ezekiel/2-9.htm">The scroll of his heavy prophecy</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/2.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/2.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>“Son of man,” He said to me, The term "Son of man" is a title used frequently in the book of Ezekiel, appearing over 90 times. It emphasizes the humanity of the prophet in contrast to the divine nature of God. This title is also significant in the New Testament, where Jesus frequently refers to Himself as the "Son of Man," highlighting His role as the representative human and the fulfillment of messianic prophecy (<a href="/daniel/7-13.htm">Daniel 7:13-14</a>).“I am sending you to the Israelites, God commissions Ezekiel to be a prophet to the Israelites, who are in exile in Babylon. This mission underscores God's continued relationship with His chosen people despite their disobedience. The sending of prophets is a recurring theme in the Old Testament, as seen with figures like Moses (<a href="/exodus/3-10.htm">Exodus 3:10</a>) and Isaiah (<a href="/isaiah/6-8.htm">Isaiah 6:8</a>), who were also sent to deliver God's messages.to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. The Israelites are described as a rebellious nation, highlighting their persistent disobedience and idolatry. This rebellion is a central theme in the history of Israel, as seen in the wilderness wanderings (<a href="/numbers/14-9.htm">Numbers 14:9</a>) and during the period of the judges (<a href="/judges/2-11.htm">Judges 2:11-19</a>). The rebellion against God is not just a historical issue but a spiritual one, reflecting the human tendency to turn away from divine authority.To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me. This phrase emphasizes the continuity of rebellion from past generations to the present. The reference to "their fathers" connects the current generation with the sins of their ancestors, as seen in the repeated cycles of apostasy and repentance throughout Israel's history (<a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-23</a>). It serves as a reminder of the consequences of disobedience and the need for repentance and return to God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet and priest during the Babylonian exile, called by God to deliver His messages to the Israelites. 2. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The sovereign Lord who commissions Ezekiel to speak to the Israelites. 3. <a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a> The chosen people of God, described here as rebellious and having transgressed against God. 4. <a href="/topical/r/rebellion.htm">Rebellion</a> The act of defying or resisting authority, in this context, the Israelites' disobedience to God. 5. <a href="/topical/t/transgression.htm">Transgression</a> The violation of a command or law, referring to the Israelites' continuous sin against God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_rebellion.htm">Understanding Rebellion</a> Recognize that rebellion against God is a recurring theme in Scripture, and it often leads to consequences. Reflect on areas in your life where you might be resisting God's authority. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_prophet.htm">The Role of the Prophet</a> Prophets are called to speak truth to power, even when it is unpopular. Consider how you can be a voice for God's truth in your community. <a href="/topical/g/generational_sin.htm">Generational Sin</a> The passage highlights the transgressions of both the current and past generations. Reflect on how generational patterns of sin can affect families and communities, and seek God's guidance to break these cycles. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness.htm">God's Faithfulness</a> Despite Israel's rebellion, God continues to reach out to them through prophets like Ezekiel. This demonstrates God's enduring faithfulness and desire for reconciliation. <a href="/topical/r/responding_to_god's_call.htm">Responding to God's Call</a> Like Ezekiel, we are called to respond to God's mission, even when it seems daunting. Pray for courage and strength to fulfill God's purpose in your life.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_2.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 2</a> <a href="/q/why_no_clear_evidence_of_israel's_rebellion.htm">Ezekiel 2:3–4: Why do we lack clear historical evidence to confirm or challenge God’s claim that Israel was actively rebelling at that time? </a> <a href="/q/how_does_ezekiel_21's_judgment_align_with_god's_mercy.htm">How can the severe judgment imagery in Ezekiel 21 be reconciled with teachings elsewhere in Scripture about God’s mercy?</a> <a href="/q/who_is_'son_of_man'_in_ezekiel.htm">Who is referred to as "son of man" in Ezekiel?</a> <a href="/q/why_no_extrabiblical_reaction_to_ezekiel_12.htm">If God intended Ezekiel’s symbolic actions in Ezekiel 12:6–7 to be a warning for all, why is there no extrabiblical evidence of widespread awareness or reaction? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/2.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(3) I send thee to the children of Israel.--Here properly begins the distinct commission of the prophet. After the captivity of the ten tribes, the two forming the kingdom of Judah, with such remnants of the others as had been induced by Hezekiah and others to cast in their lot with them, are constantly spoken of as "Israel." (See <a href="/ezra/2-2.htm" title="Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:">Ezra 2:2</a>.) The continuity of the whole nation was considered as preserved in the remnant, and hence this same mode of expression passed into the New Testament. (See <a href="/acts/26-7.htm" title="To which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.">Acts 26:7</a>.) It is only when there is especial occasion to distinguish between the two parts of the nation, as in <a href="/context/ezekiel/4-5.htm" title="For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.">Ezekiel 4:5-6</a>, that the name of Israel is used in contrast with that of Judah.A rebellious nation.--Literally, as in the margin, rebellious nations, the word being the same as that commonly used distinctively for the heathen, so that the children of Israel are here spoken of as "rebellious heathen." There could be no epithet which would carry home more forcibly to the mind of an Israelite the state of antagonism in which he had placed himself against his God. (Comp. the "Lo-ammi" of <a href="/hosea/1-9.htm" title="Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.">Hosea 1:9</a>, and also the discourse of our Lord in <a href="/john/8-39.htm" title="They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.">John 8:39</a>.) Yet still, the God from whom they had turned aside was even now sending to them His prophet, and seeking to win them back to His love and obedience, in true correspondence to the vision of the bow in the cloud about the majesty on high. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/2.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 3. - To a rebellious nation; literally, with Revised Version, nations that are rebellious. The Hebrew word (goim) is that used elsewhere for "heathen" and that may be its sense here. As in <a href="/ezekiel/28-22.htm">Ezekiel 28:22</a>. Judah and Israel may be thought of as having fallen to the level of the heathen. Part of Ezekiel's work was actually addressed to the heathen as such (ch. 25-32.). The word may, however, be used in the plural to include both Judah and the remnant of the northern kingdom. They and their fathers. The words anticipate the teaching of ch. 18. The people to whom the prophet was sent could not say that they were suffering for the sins of their fathers. They, in their own persons, had transgressed up to the very day on which the prophet received his mission. They had rebelled as their fathers had done in the days of Moses and Joshua (<a href="/numbers/14-9.htm">Numbers 14:9</a>; <a href="/joshua/22-18.htm">Joshua 22:18</a>). <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>“Son בֶּן־ (ben-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son of man,” אָדָם֙ (’ā·ḏām) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_120.htm">Strong's 120: </a> Ruddy, a human being He said וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say to me: אֵלַ֗י (’ê·lay) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to “I אֲנִ֤י (’ă·nî) Pronoun - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_589.htm">Strong's 589: </a> I am sending שׁוֹלֵ֨חַ (šō·w·lê·aḥ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> To send away, for, out you to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to the Israelites, בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to a rebellious הַמּוֹרְדִ֖ים (ham·mō·wr·ḏîm) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4775.htm">Strong's 4775: </a> To rebel nation גּוֹיִ֥ם (gō·w·yim) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1471.htm">Strong's 1471: </a> A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts that אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that has rebelled מָרְדוּ־ (mā·rə·ḏū-) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4775.htm">Strong's 4775: </a> To rebel against Me. בִ֑י (ḇî) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> To עַד־ (‘aḏ-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while this very הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2088.htm">Strong's 2088: </a> This, that day הַיּ֥וֹם (hay·yō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day the Israelites הֵ֤מָּה (hêm·māh) Pronoun - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1992.htm">Strong's 1992: </a> They and their fathers וַאֲבוֹתָם֙ (wa·’ă·ḇō·w·ṯām) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> Father have transgressed פָּ֣שְׁעוּ (pā·šə·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6586.htm">Strong's 6586: </a> To break away, trespass, apostatize, quarrel against Me. בִ֔י (ḇî) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/2-3.htm">Ezekiel 2:3 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/2-3.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 2:3 He said to me Son of man (Ezek. 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