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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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LO. Figure of speech _Aster's._ App-6.
GIVEN. Same word as "appointed", Ezekiel 4:6.
THEREWITH: or., thereupon. Compare Ezekiel 4:12....
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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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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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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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Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's
dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
I HAVE GIVEN THEE COW'S DUNG FOR MAN'S DUNG - a mitigation of the
former order ();...
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A partial mitigation of the symbol for the prophet's sake. The dung of
domestic animals was often used as fuel, and does not seem to have
defiled the food cooked upon it. Though the symbol was modifie...
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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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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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COW’S DUNG. — In the scarcity of fuel in the East, cow’s dung
and especially camel’s dung, is dried, and becomes the common fuel....
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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י רְאֵ֗ה נָתַ֤תִּֽי
לְךָ֙ אֶ
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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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Then he said to me, Lo, I have given thee cow's (m) dung for man's
dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with them.
(m) To be as fire to bake your bread with....
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_Neats, or "oxen;" boum. Protestants, "cow's dung." (Haydock) --- God
allows him to bake his bread under such ashes. (Calmet) --- So great
is his condescension towards his friends! (Calmet)_...
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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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THEN HE SAID TO ME,.... The Lord hearkened to the prophet's prayer and
argument, and makes some abatement and alteration in the charge he
gave him:
LO, I HAVE GIVEN THEE COW'S DUNG FOR MAN'S DUNG: th...
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_Then said I, Ah, Lord God_, &c. He deprecates this, and entreats it
may not be enjoined him. _Behold, my soul hath not been polluted_ I
have always carefully observed the distinction between meats cl...
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THE SYMBOLS OF THE FAMINE...
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Then He said unto me, in yielding the point for the sake of the
prophet's scruples, LO, I HAVE GIVEN THEE COW'S DUNG FOR MAN'S DUNG, a
fuel still used very extensively in the Orient, AND THOU SHALT PR...
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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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So soon as he prayed God answered, and condescends to Ezekiel that he
should use what was less abominable than man's dung; but it was not
granted to the Jews, who in the siege at Jerusalem did much wo...
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Ezekiel 4:15 said H559 (H8799) See H7200 (H8798) giving H5414 (H8804)
cow H1241 dung H6832 ...
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‘Then he said, “I have given you cow's dung for man's excrement,
and you shall prepare bread on it.”
God allowed him to use cow dung instead of man's excrement. Cow dung
was a recognised fuel used by...
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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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Ezekiel 4:15...