Ezekielchapter 4
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A.A brick, a siege, and an iron panvv. 1-3
1 “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem. 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. 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.
B.Lying on his side, a day for a yearvv. 4-8
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. 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. 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. 7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it. 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.
C.Famine bread measured out by weightvv. 9-17
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. 10 You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times. 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. 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.” 13 Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.” 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.” 15 “Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.” 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. 17 So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
Chapter summary
Prophecy becomes theater.
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Chapter summary
Prophecy becomes theater.
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Prophecy becomes theater. Ezekiel takes a tile, portrays Jerusalem on it, and lays siege to it in miniature (mound, camp, battering rams) with an iron pan set as a wall of iron between himself and the city. Then he lies on his left side three hundred and ninety days for the iniquity of Israel and forty on his right for Judah, 'a day for a year.' His rations are a siege loaf of wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, twenty shekels a day, water by measure, baked over human dung. And when he protests defilement, cow's dung is granted instead. Bread and water consumed in dismay.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Prophecy · Ezekiel — Ezekiel overview
- A. 1–3 A brick, a siege, and an iron pan
- B. 4–8 Lying on his side, a day for a year
- C. 9–17 Famine bread measured out by weight
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Ezekiel 43 verses
- Ezekiel 4:3Then 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 4:13Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
- Ezekiel 4:16Then 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.
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Leviticus 262 verses
- Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Leviticus 26:39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
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Ezekiel 212 verses
- Ezekiel 21:2“Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
- Ezekiel 21:22In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.
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Isaiah 532 verses
- Isaiah 53:6We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
- Isaiah 53:11After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.
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Numbers 141 verse
- Numbers 14:34In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
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Isaiah 31 verse
- Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
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Hosea 11 verse
- Hosea 1:2When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
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Jeremiah 271 verse
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.