Ezekiel 4:9 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 4:9

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.

BSB

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ASV

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, 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, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Two things are prefigured in the remainder of this chapter, (1) the hardships of exile, (2) the straitness of a siege. To the people of Israel, separated from the rest of the nations as holy, it was a leading feature in the calamities of their exile that they must be mixed up with other nations, and eat of their food, which to the Jews was a defilement (compare Eze 4:13; Amo 7:17; Dan 1:8.) Fitches - A species of wheat with shorn ears.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But Judah also is secondarily referred to in the three hundred ninety days, as having fallen, like Israel, into Gentile defilements; if, then, the Jews are to escape from the exile among Gentiles, which is their just punishment, they must submit again to the wilderness probation (Eze 4:16).

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאַתָּ֣ה	ve.'a.Tah	and you	H859 →
קַח־	kach-	take	H3947 →
לְךָ֡	le.Kha	<for> yourself
חִטִּ֡ין	chi.Tin	wheat<s>	H2406 →
וּ֠שְׂעֹרִים	U.se.'o.rim	and barley<s>	H8184 →
וּפ֨וֹל	u.Fol	and bean[s]	H6321 →
וַעֲדָשִׁ֜ים	va.'a.da.Shim	and lentils	H5742 →
וְדֹ֣חַן	ve.Do.chan	and millet	H1764 →
וְכֻסְּמִ֗ים	ve.khu.se.Mim	and spelt<s>	H3698 →
וְנָתַתָּ֤ה	ve.na.ta.Tah	and you will put	H5414 →
אוֹתָם֙	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
בִּכְלִ֣י	bikh.Li	in a vessel	H3627 →
אֶחָ֔ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
וְעָשִׂ֧יתָ	ve.'a.Si.ta	and you will make	H6213 →
אוֹתָ֛ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
לְךָ֖	le.Kha	for <the> yourself
לְלָ֑חֶם	le.La.chem	into bread	H3899 →
מִסְפַּ֨ר	mis.Par	[the] number of	H4557 →
הַיָּמִ֜ים	hai.ya.Mim	the days	H3117 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
אַתָּ֣ה׀	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
שׁוֹכֵ֣ב	sho.Khev	[will be] lying	H7901 →
עַֽל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
צִדְּךָ֗	tzi.de.Kha	side your	H6654 →
שְׁלֹשׁ־	she.losh-	three	H7969 →
מֵא֧וֹת	me.'ot	hundreds	H3967 →
וְתִשְׁעִ֛ים	ve.tish.'Im	and ninety	H8673 →
י֖וֹם	Yom	day[s]	H3117 →
תֹּאכֲלֶֽנּוּ׃	to.kha.Le.nu	you will eat it	H398 →

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

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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.

Through
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…
leads to
- Ezekiel 5:16
  When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
- Isaiah 3:1
  For 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,
- Leviticus 26:26
  When 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.
- Ezekiel 4:10–11
  You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
- Ezekiel 12:18–19
  “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
Through
Ezekiel 4:13
Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
leads to
- Daniel 1:8
  But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
- Hosea 9:3–4
  They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Through
Isaiah 28:25
When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
leads to
- Matthew 23:23
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced…

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