Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 4

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Ezekiel 4 . 1 , Under the type of a siege is shewn the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity; Ezekiel 4 . 9 , By the provision of the siege , is shewn the hardness of the famine.

Ezekiel 4:1

“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 4:1 · BSB

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a tile לבנה [Strong's H3843] , levainah generally denotes a brick , and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long , one foot broad , and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps , however , it may here denote a flat tile , like a Roman brick , which were commonly used for tablets , as we learn from Pliny , Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57.

Ezekiel 4:2

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

Ezekiel 4:2 · BSB

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or , chief leaders

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Ezekiel 4:3

Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:3 · BSB

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or , a flat plate , or slice

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Ezekiel 4:4

Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 4:4 · BSB

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Ezekiel 4:5

For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:5 · BSB

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three This number of years will take us back from the year in which Judea was finally desolated by Nebuzar-adan , bc 584 , to the establishment of idolatry in Israel by Jeroboam , bc 975. "Beginning from 1 Kings 12 . 33. Ending Jeremiah 52 . 30.

Ezekiel 4:6

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.

Ezekiel 4:6 · BSB

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This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah , from the reformation of Josiah , bc 624 , to the same final desolation of the land. Some think that the period of 390 days also predicts the duration of the siege of the Babylonians

  • Ezekiel 4:9 deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days , when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians
  • 2 Kings 25:1-4
  • Jeremiah 37:5 and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from
  • 2 Kings 23:3 2 Kings 23 . 23. Ending Jeremiah 52 . 30."

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Heb. a day for a year , a day for a year

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Ezekiel 4:7

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

Ezekiel 4:7 · BSB

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Ezekiel 4:8

Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

Ezekiel 4:8 · BSB

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from one side to another Heb. from thy side to thy side

Ezekiel 4:9

But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Ezekiel 4:9 · BSB

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millet Dochan in Arabic , dokhn the holcus dochna of Forskal , is a kind of millet , of considerable use as a food; the cultivation of which is described by Browne.

fitches or , spelt , Kussemim is doubtless זוב , or spelt , as Aquila and Symmachus render here; and so LXX and Theodotion , ןכץסב. In times of scarcity it is customary to mix several kinds of coarser grains with the finer , to make it last the longer.

Ezekiel 4:10

You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.

Ezekiel 4:10 · BSB

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Ezekiel 4:11

You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

Ezekiel 4:11 · BSB

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Ezekiel 4:12

And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”

Ezekiel 4:12 · BSB

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a "round" thing

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Ezekiel 4:13

Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”

Ezekiel 4:13 · BSB

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Ezekiel 4:14

"Ah, Lord GOD," I said, "I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."

Ezekiel 4:14 · BSB

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Ezekiel 4:15

"Look," He replied, "I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that."

Ezekiel 4:15 · BSB

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Dried cow-dung is a common fuel in the East , as it is in many parts of England , to the present day; but the prophet was ordered to prepare his bread with human ordure , to shew the extreme degree of wretchedness to which the besieged should be exposed , as they would be obliged literally to use it , from not being able to leave the city to collect other fuel

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Ezekiel 4:16

Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

Ezekiel 4:16 · BSB

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The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight , or about ten ounces , of the coarse food he had prepared , and the sixth part of a hin , scarcely a pint and a half , of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food , and that by weight , and their water by measure

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Ezekiel 4:17

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

Ezekiel 4:17 · BSB

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In the wider web4 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Ezekiel 4:14 → Leviticus 11:39, Ezekiel 4:14 → Leviticus 11:39-40
Trajectories
Ceremonial Uncleanness (Spiritual Defilement)
Chiasms
Shaped Ezekiel 4:16–5:17
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