Ezekiel 3:7-9

Ezekiel's Call

⁷ _y But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel _z have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart. ⁸ _a Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. ⁹ Like _b emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. _c Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house."

1. Cross References
   John 15:20
   Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
   
2. Cross References
   Ezekiel 2:4
   The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God.
   
3. Cross References
   Jeremiah 1:18
   And I, behold, I make you this day 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.
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 50:7
   But the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
   
5. Cross References
   Ezekiel 2:6
   And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.