Context Siege of Jerusalem Predicted1Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem. 2Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around. 3Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel. 4As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it. 5For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year. 7Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. 8Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege. Defiled Bread 9But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. 10Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. 11The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. 12You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung. 13Then the LORD said, Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them. 14But I said, Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth. 15Then He said to me, See, I will give you cows dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread. 16Moreover, He said to me, Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror, 17because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionThou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem: Douay-Rheims Bible And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of Jerusalem. Darby Bible Translation And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, Jerusalem: English Revised Version Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it a city, even Jerusalem: Webster's Bible Translation Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem; World English Bible You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem: Young's Literal Translation 'And thou, son of man, take to thee a brick, and thou hast put it before thee, and hast graven on it a city -- Jerusalem, Library The Great ControversyPage 52. Image worship.--"The worship of images . . . was one of those corruptions of Christianity which crept into the church stealthily and almost without notice or observation. This corruption did not, like other heresies, develop itself at once, for in that case it would have met with decided censure and rebuke: but, making its commencement under a fair disguise, so gradually was one practice after another introduced in connection with it, that the church had become deeply steeped in practical … Ellen Gould White—The Great Controversy What the Ruler's Discrimination Should be Between Correction and Connivance, Between Fervour and Gentleness. Jesus Sets Out from Judæa for Galilee. First Ministry in Judæa --John's Second Testimony. Ezekiel Links Ezekiel 4:1 NIV • Ezekiel 4:1 NLT • Ezekiel 4:1 ESV • Ezekiel 4:1 NASB • Ezekiel 4:1 KJV • Ezekiel 4:1 Bible Apps • Ezekiel 4:1 Parallel • Bible Hub |