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Verse Ezekiel 4:6. _FORTY DAYS_] Reckon, says Archbishop Newcome,
near _fifteen_ years and _six_ months in the reign of Manasseh, _two_
years in that of Amon, _three_ months in that of Jehoahaz, _ele...
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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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(B) THE EXILE: ITS DURATION. The next action is more curious. Ezekiel
is represented as lying upon his side for 190 days (as LXX correctly
reads in Ezekiel 4:5) to symbolise the years of punishment in...
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AGAIN. a second time, showing that they are not necessarily
consecutive or continuous, but are conterminous, though not commencing
at the same time.
FORTY DAYS. See note on Ezekiel 4:4.
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_ A_ PPO...
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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 the people's bearing their iniquity
In the former symbol the prophet carried on the siege, representing
the besiegers; here he changes his part and represents the besieged.
This symbol is s...
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In Ezekiel 4:5 the number of days for Israel is stated to be 390, and
in Ezekiel 4:6 the number for Judah 40. The number 390 creates a
difficulty. Several things have to be borne in mind. 1. To bear
i...
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II. PARABLE OF ISRAEL'S SIN 4:4-8
TRANSLATION
(4) And as for you, lie upon your left side, and set the iniquity of
the house of Israel upon it. The number of days in which you lay upon
it you shall b...
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And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side,
and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I
have appointed thee each day for a year.
EACH DAY FOR A YEAR...
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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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FORTY DAYS] the years of Judah's captivity and of Babylon's supremacy
(Ezekiel 29:11). The return of the exiles took place about 538 b.c.,
fifty-nine years after the first and forty-eight years after...
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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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וְ כִלִּיתָ֣ אֶת ־אֵ֗לֶּה וְ
שָׁ֨כַבְתָּ֜ עַל
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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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And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy (c) right side,
and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I
have appointed thee each day for a year.
(c) Which declared...
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I cannot but think somewhat more than Ezekiel, as a servant, and the
captivity of the people in Babylon, was intended by this type. At
least it is hardly possible to overlook Christ, the one and only...
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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 WHEN THOU HAST ACCOMPLISHED THEM,.... The three hundred and ninety
days, by lying so long on the left side, bearing the sins of the house
of Israel in this way; or, as Cocceius renders the words,...
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And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and
thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have
appointed thee each day for a year.
Ver. 6. _And when thou...
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_Lie thou also_, &c. “In his own house, Ezekiel 3:24. This was to be
his posture, not without intermission, but in the exercise of his
prophetical office, during that part of each day, when the people...
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And when thou hast accomplished them, having fulfilled the three
hundred and ninety days typical of the bearing of Israel's burden, LIE
AGAIN ON THY RIGHT SIDE, AND THOU SHALT BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE...
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THE SYMBOL OF THE SIEGE...
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EACH DAY FOR A YEAR:
_ Heb._ a day for a year, a day for a year...
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1-8 The prophet was to represent the siege of Jerusalem by signs. He
was to lie on his left side for a number of days, supposed to be equal
to the years from the establishment of idolatry. All that th...
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When thou hast almost accomplished, or when about to accomplish them,
i.e. forty days, before the three hundred and ninety do expire, at the
end of three hundred and fifty days turn thou to thy right...
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Ezekiel 4:6 completed H3615 (H8765) them H428 lie H7901 (H8804) again
H8145 right H3233 (H8675)...
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“Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house
of Israel on it. According to the number of days you will lie on it.
You will bear their iniquity. For I have appointed the years of...
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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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_Take thee a tile._
THE MINISTRY OF SYMBOLISM
In this chapter there begins a series of symbols utterly impossible of
modern interpretation. This ministry of symbolism has still a place in
all progres...
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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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3. FIRST INSTRUCTIONS BY SIGNS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
(Chaps. Ezekiel 4:1 to Ezekiel 5:17).
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel is ordered to carry out certain specified
processes. Their purport is expressed...
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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 12:11; Daniel 12:12; Daniel 9:24; Jeremiah 37:5; Jeremiah 5
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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
d...