Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Ezek 2:8

“But thou, O son of man, hear all that I say to thee: and do not thou provoke me, as that house provoketh me: open thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.”

“eat--(See on Jer 15:16; Rev 10:9-10). The idea is to possess himself fully of the message and digest it in the mind; not literal eating, but such an appropriation of its unsavory contents that they should become, as it were, part of himself, so as to impart them the more vividly to his hearers.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.