Ezekiel 2:4 meaning and explanation

They 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.’

Ezekiel 2:4, Berean Standard Bible

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God speaks these words to Ezekiel, a priest now called to be a prophet to the Israelites already exiled in Babylon. The Hebrew idiom behind "obstinate and stubborn" is literally "hard of face and hard of heart," picturing a people set against God.

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