Ezekiel 4:12 BSB — MannaFest

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.”

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Thou shalt bake it with dung - Dried ox and cow dung is a common fuel in the east; and with this, for want of wood and coals, they are obliged to prepare their food. Indeed, dried excrement of every kind is gathered. Here, the prophet is to prepare his bread with dry human excrement. And when we know that this did not come in contact with the bread, and was only used to warm the plate, (see Eze 4:3), on which the bread was laid over the fire, it removes all the horror and much of the disgust.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This nauseous piece of cookery he must exercise publicly in their sight, that they might be the more affected with the calamity approaching, which was signified by it, that in the extremity of the famine they should not only have nothing that was dainty, but nothing that was cleanly, about them; they must take up with what they could get.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְעֻגַ֥ת	ve.'u.Gat	and a bread cake of	H5692 →
שְׂעֹרִ֖ים	se.'o.Rim	barley<s>	H8184 →
תֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נָּה	to.kha.Le.nah	you will eat it	H398 →
וְהִ֗יא	ve.Hi'	and it	H1931 →
בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙	be.ge.Lei	in [the] dung<s> of	H1561 →
צֵאַ֣ת	tze.'At	[the] excrement of	H6627 →
הָֽאָדָ֔ם	ha.'a.Dam	<the> humankind	H120 →
תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה	te.'u.Ge.nah	you will bake it	H5746 →
לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃ ס	le.'ei.nei.Hem	to eyes their	H5869 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H8184seorimbarley<s>34×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Isaiah 36:12
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to…
leads to
- 2 Kings 18:27
  But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to…
- Leviticus 26:29
  You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
- Isaiah 9:20
  They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own…
- Jeremiah 19:9
  I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- 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…
Through
Genesis 18:6
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
leads to
- Romans 12:13
  Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
- Matthew 13:33
  He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and mixed into three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened.”
- Galatians 5:13
  For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Ezekiel