Ezekiel 4:1
Portray — Draw a map of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
Portray — Draw a map of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lay siege — Draw the figure of a siege about the city. Build — Raise a tower and bulwarks.... [ Continue Reading ]
A wall — That it may resemble a wall of iron, for as impregnable as such a wall, shall the resolution and patience of the Chaldeans be.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lay — Take upon thee the representation of their guilt and punishment. House of Israel — The ten tribes. The number — By this thou shalt intimate how long I have borne with their sins, and how long they shall bear their punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
I have laid — I have pointed out the number of years wherein apostate Israel sinned against me, and I did bear with them. Years — These years probably began at Solomon's falling to idolatry, in the twenty — seventh year of his reign, and ended in the fifth of Zedekiah's captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Accomplished — That is, almost accomplished. House of Judah — Of the two tribes. Forty days — Probably from Josiah's renewing the covenant, until the destruction of the temple, during which time God deferred to punish, expecting whether they would keep their covenant, or retain their idolatries, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
Set — While thou liest on thy side thou shalt fix thy countenance on the portrait of besieged Jerusalem. Uncovered — Naked and stretched out as being ready to strike.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bands — An invisible restraint assuring him, that those could no more remove from the siege, than he from that side he lay on.... [ Continue Reading ]
Take — Provide thee corn enough: for a grievous famine will accompany the siege. Wheat — All sorts of grain are to be provided, and all will be little enough. One vessel — Mix the worst with the best to lengthen out the provision.... [ Continue Reading ]
By weight — Not as much as you will, but a small pittance delivered by weight to all. Twenty shekels — Ten ounces: scarce enough to maintain life. From time to time — At set hours this was weighed out.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sixth part — About six ounces.... [ Continue Reading ]
As barley cakes — Because they never had enough to make a loaf with, they eat them as barley cakes. With dung — There was no wood left, nor yet dung of other creatures. This also was represented in a vision.... [ Continue Reading ]
May want — So because they served not God with chearfulness in the abundance of all things, He made them serve their enemies in the want of all things.... [ Continue Reading ]