Ezekiel 3:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

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  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of hosts.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, More than honey to my mouth!
  • Rev 10:9-9 : 9 I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey." 10 I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
  • Prov 2:10-11 : 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have hidden your word in my heart, That I might not sin against you.
  • Ps 119:97 : 97 How love I your law! It is my meditation all day.
  • Job 23:12 : 12 I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
  • Job 32:18-19 : 18 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me. 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; Like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
  • Ezek 2:10 : 10 He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
  • John 6:53-63 : 53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever." 59 These things he said in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?" 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? 62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
  • John 7:38 : 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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  • Ezek 3:1-2
    2 verses
    93%

    1He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.

    2So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

  • 4He said to me, Son of man, go, get you to the house of Israel, and speak with my words to them.

  • Rev 10:8-11
    4 verses
    81%

    8The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."

    9I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."

    10I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

    11They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings."

  • Ezek 2:8-10
    3 verses
    79%

    8But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; don't be you rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.

    9When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;

    10He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

  • Ezek 4:12-16
    5 verses
    74%

    12You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

    13Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.

    14Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

    15Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.

    16Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

  • 19My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ezek 3:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

    11Go, get you to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

  • Ezek 4:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, shall you eat of it.

    10Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.

  • 3The word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,

  • Ezek 2:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1He said to me, Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.

    2The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.

  • Ezek 3:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    17Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

  • 13My son, eat honey, for it is good; The droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

  • 4The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.

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    17Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    18Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;

  • 22The hand of Yahweh was there on me; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with you.

  • 23The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 24Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me on my feet; and he spoke with me, and said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.

  • 16Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of hosts.

  • 22You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

  • Ezek 37:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.

    2He caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, behold, they were very dry.

  • 1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 4Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.

  • 3I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

  • Zech 5:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.

    2He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."

  • 4Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.

  • 13Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of the bread of it, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

  • 43He took them, and ate in front of them.

  • 1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 1The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • 7A full soul loathes a honeycomb; But to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

  • 1The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

  • 14So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

  • 3It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.