Ezekiel 4:7 KJV — MannaFest

Ezekiel 4:7

Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

KJV

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ASV

And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.

WEB

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

YLT

`And unto the siege of Jerusalem thou dost prepare thy face, and thine arm is uncovered, and thou hast prophesied concerning it.

DBT

And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ezekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’

Author: Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
Date: Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)

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Isaiah 52:10
The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Ezekiel 21:2
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
Daniel 11:17
He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him.
Ezekiel 4:3
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.
Ezekiel 6:2
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

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Ezekiel 20:46

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The famine that should rage within the city; this is signified by his eating very coarse fare, and confining himself to a little of it, so long as this typical representation lasted,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Nor were they less active and industrious, exerting themselves to the utmost in all the operations of the siege, which the prophet was to represent by the uncovering of his arm, or, as some read it, the stretching out of his arm, as it were to deal blows about without mercy. When God is about to do some great work he is said to make bare his arm, Isa. lii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

16 , Necessity is laid upon me, and woe unto me if I preach not the gospel ); and yet men laid upon him bonds of restraint ( ch. iii. 25 ); but under both it is satisfaction enough that they are serving the interests of God's kingdom among men.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

arm . . . uncovered--to be ready for action, which the long Oriental garment usually covering it would prevent (Isa 52:10). thou shalt prophesy against it--This gesture of thine will be a tacit prophecy against it.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H469225× in canon H222091× in canon H5012115× in canon H3559217× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

EZE 4:7EZE 21:2 EZE 20:46
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
EZE 4:7ISA 52:10 LUK 3:6
EZE 4:7ISA 52:10 REV 14:6
EZE 4:7ISA 52:10 REV 15:4
EZE 4:7ISA 52:10 ISA 51:9
EZE 4:7ISA 52:10 PSA 98:1-3
EZE 4:7EZE 4:3 EZE 12:6
EZE 4:7EZE 4:3 ISA 8:18

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