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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 4:16

I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. — In Ezekiel 4:16, the meaning of the foregoing symbolism is declared in plain language. Bread, as the chief article of food is put for all food, the specific for the general. There shall be extreme suffering and distress, as a part of the punishment for their long-continued sins.

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See also Ezekiel 4:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 4:16. _I WILL BREAK THE STAFF OF BREAD_] They shall be besieged till all the bread is consumed, till the famine becomes _absolute_; see 2 Kings 25:3: "And on the ninth of the _fourth_ m...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE STAFF OF BREAD - Bread is so called because it is that on which the support of life mainly depends. WITH ASTONISHMENT - With dismay and anxiety at the calamities which are befalling them....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    (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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I WILL BREAK. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:26). Occurr ing again in Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13. but nowhere else in O.T....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the staff of bread_ i.e. the staff which bread is; a common figure, ch. Ezekiel 5:16; Leviticus 26:26; Isaiah 3:1; Psalms 105:16. It is sca

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Explanation of the symbol of eating bread by measure (Ezekiel 4:10)....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonish...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    § 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י בֶּן ־אָדָם֙ הִנְנִ֨י שֹׁב

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break (n) the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and in horror:...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Staff. As this supports the weak, so bread nourishes all men, (Worthington) particularly the bread of life. (St. Jerome) --- Very little food, (Calmet) and that of a nauseous kind, (Haydock) would be...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Melancholy as this was, when the bread and water were given out by weight and measure, yet infinitely more distressing is it, when the Lord makes a famine, not of the bread that perisheth, but that wh...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    God returns again to the citizens of Jerusalem, and announces that they should be so destroyed by famine, that they should be reduced to the last extremity, and all but consumed by want. But he places...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MOREOVER HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN,.... What follows opens the design, and shows what was intended by the symbol of the miscellany bread, baked with cow dung, the prophet was to eat by measure, as,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishm...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem_ I will cause a scarcity of bread in Jerusalem, 2 Kings 25:3; and deprive it of the chief support of man's life. _And they shall eat their bread b...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SYMBOLS OF THE FAMINE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Moreover, He said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, bread being one of the chief articles of food, one of man's main articles of nourishment; AND THEY SHALL EA...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Here the Lord confirms his threat of famine by a solemn protestation that he would break the staff of bread; either take their, harvests away, and deny them bread, or withhold his blessing, the streng...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 4:16 said H559 (H8799) Son H1121 man H120 off H7665 (H8799) supply H4294 bread H3899 Jerusalem...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with carefulness, and they will drink water by measure and with dismay...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 4:16 SUPPLY OF BREAD in Hebrew is “staff of bread” (see esv footnote), which probably refers to a method of storage. To BREAK the staff (see...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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,...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 12:18; Ezekiel 12:19; Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 4:10; Ezekiel

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