Ezekiel 4
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Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

forty days. This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, B.C.

Ezekiel 4:9 Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and …

Ezekiel 25:1-4 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying…

Jeremiah 37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans …

2 Kings 23:3,23 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, …

Jeremiah 52:3 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and …

Each day for a year. [heb] a day for a year, a day for a year.

Ezekiel 4:9 Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and …

2 Kings 25:1-4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth …

Jeremiah 37:5 Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans …

2 Kings 23:3,23 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, …

Jeremiah 52:30 In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the …

Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even …

Daniel 9:24-26 Seventy weeks are determined on your people and on your holy city, …

Daniel 12:11,12 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and …

Revelation 9:15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, …

Revelation 11:2,3 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure …

Revelation 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she …

Revelation 13:5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; …

Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

I will

Ezekiel 3:25 But you, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands on you, and shall …

from one side to another [from thy side to thy side]

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

wheat

Ezekiel 4:13,16 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their …

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

three

Ezekiel 4:5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to …

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

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And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

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And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

cow's dung. 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.

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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