Ezekiel 2:8
But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee. But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.
The command is given to the prophet as one sent to a rebellious house, to Israel as a rebellious people who may refuse to hear whether they listen or not. He is forbidden to share their rebellion, and is charged instead to listen to what God says to him. He is to open his mouth to receive and accept what God gives him, taking it in obediently rather than acting rebelliously. Eating what is given means taking God's words and message into himself, so that inward reception comes before speaking and enables delivery of the message to the people.
The command to eat introduces the scroll that must be taken into himself and then proclaimed to Israel. The passage belongs with Ezekiel 9 and Revelation 5 to be studied in connection with God's judgment on wrongdoing, placing the verse in a setting of divine accountability. For servants in the work of ministry this calls for receiving and following God's word in dependence on God and the Holy Spirit for direction. For workers receiving God's message it calls for examining and guarding oneself rather than fixating on the faults and actions of fellow workers. For people who resist the Lord's messages it means they are not to reject or work against those messages, but to receive and heed God's word.