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The ceremonial ordinances in relation to food were intended to keep
the nation free from idolatrous usages; everywhere among the pagan
idol feasts formed a leading part in their religious services, an...
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Ezekiel 4:1. The word tile means “brick.” They were used by the
Babylonians to preserve their records, and many have been found marked
with building plans, etc. The sign of the tile foretells the sieg...
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(C) THE HARDSHIPS OF THE EXILES AND THE BESIEGED. The horrors of
famine, consequent upon the siege, are suggested by the symbolical
action of this section, in which the prophet's food and drink are to...
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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
CHILDREN. sons.
GENTILES. nations....
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Symbol of scarcity during the siege and pollution in the dispersion
from having to eat unclean things among the Gentiles
The passage continues Ezekiel 4:8. The prophet is commanded (while
lying immov...
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_eat their defiled bread_ Rather: EAT THEIR BREAD UNCLEAN. This is the
meaning of the symbol: the food which the people shall eat among the
nations will be unclean. In a pathetic passage of Hosea it i...
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Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27
The second section of the Book contains these parts:
(1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded
to confine himself to his o...
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EAT THEIR DEFILED BREAD, &C.— The prophet, speaking above of eating
and drinking by weight and measure, foretels the famine in Jerusalem;
now, in the bread baked with dung is pre-signified the unclean...
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III. THE PARABLE OF JERUSALEM'S FAMINE
4:9-17
TRANSLATION
(9) NOW as for You, take to you wheat and barley, and beans and
lentils and millet and fitches, and put them in a vessel, and prepare
them fo...
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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.
EVEN THUS SHALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL EAT THEIR DEFILED BREAD AMONG...
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4:13 unclean (b-13) Or 'defiled,' as ver. 14....
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§ 2. THE OVERTHROW OF THE JEWISH KINGDOM FORETOLD (EZEKIEL 4-7)
The great theme of the first part of Ezekiel's prophetic ministry was
the certainty of the complete downfall of the Jewish state. Though...
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CAUSE MY FURY TO REST] RV 'satisfy my fury.'
EAT THEIR DEFILED BREAD] RV 'eat their bread unclean.' Foreign lands
were regarded as unclean in themselves (Amos 7:17), and, besides, all
food eaten in th...
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EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’
THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 4
THE BRICK AND THE IRON PLATE – EZEKIEL 4:1-8
V1 ‘*Son
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EAT THEIR DEFILED BREAD AMONG THE GENTILES. — The Mosaic law
purposely so hedged the people about with detailed precepts in regard
to their food and its preparation, that it was impossible for them to...
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה כָּ֣כָה יֹאכְל֧וּ
בְנֵֽי...
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THE END FORETOLD
Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1
WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great
division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of
about four and a...
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The second division of the Book contains the messages of the prophet
concerning the reprobation of the chosen nation. These fall into three
parts. In the first, by symbolism and speech he described th...
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_Filthy. Israel was less careful to avoid uncleannesses than Juda.
Hence the prophet eats only during 390 days, Osee ix. 3. (Calmet) ---
While the city was pillage for forty days, the prisoners would...
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The Reader will have a better idea of the coarse and scanty fare of
the Prophet, if he understands, that this mixed grain not only made
the whole unpleasant, but the allowance was scarcely enough, (an...
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Besides the general judgment that God pronounced upon the condition of
Israel, Jerusalem-on whom lay all the iniquity of the people now come
to its height-appears before God whom she had despised. The...
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AND THE LORD SAID, EVEN THUS SHALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... Not the
ten tribes only, or those who were among the other two, but all the
Jews in captivity:
EAT THE DEFILED BREAD AMONG THE GENTILES,...
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THE SYMBOLS OF THE FAMINE...
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And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their
defiled bread, polluted with the odor of the unspeakable fuel used,
AMONG THE GENTILES, WHITHER I WILL DRIVE THEM, where they would...
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9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse
grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent
scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity....
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This verse is a key to the former. EVEN THUS; scanty, mean,
ill-dressed, and polluted in the very dressing, loathsome to any but
starved bellies. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; not only the house of Judah,
b...
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Ezekiel 4:13 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) children H1121 Israel H3478
eat H398 (H8799) defiled H2931 bread...
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‘And Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their
food unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.” '
The eating of food in this way would not only indicate the coming
siege,...
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CONTENTS: The sign of the tile. Typical representations.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel.
CONCLUSION: If men will not serve God with cheerfulness in the
abundance of all things, God will make them serve th...
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Ezekiel 4:1. _Son of man, take thee a tile._ It is probable that the
prophet took a sheet of plastic clay proper for his purpose; for the
Hebrew root בנה _banah,_ is generally applied to construction...
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_Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread._
CONFORMITY OF PUNISHMENT TO SIN
They had sinned in excess, and God would take away their plenty. Hosea
13:6, “According to their past...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 4:1 Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah. The
oracles of chs. Ezekiel 4:1 come before Jerusalem’s downfall in 587
B.C. Although the sequence
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 4:12 Ezekiel objects when he is told to use
HUMAN DUNG for fuel. Animal dung was a common fuel (v. Ezekiel 4:15;
see...
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_Scanty means of subsistence symbolising punishment_ (chap. Ezekiel
4:9)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 4:9. The several sorts of vegetable
food—the richest and the poorest in nutritive elements—being
pla...
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EXPOSITION
Prior to any detailed examination of the strange series of acts
recorded in this and the following chapter, we are met with the
question whether they were indeed visible and outward acts,...
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CHAPTER 4.
THE VISION OF THE SIEGE AND THE INIQUITY-BEARING.
Ezekiel 4:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and set it
before thee, and engrave on it the city Jerusalem._
Ezekiel 4:2. _And l...
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Now thou also, Son of man, take a tile (Ezekiel 4:1),
Now this is a brick, and it's about twelve inches by fourteen inches.
The archeologists have uncovered thousands of these bricks there in
the area...
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Daniel 1:8; Hosea 9:3; Hosea 9:4...