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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 4:8

I will lay bands upon thee. — See on Ezekiel 3:25. This is a fresh feature of the unrelenting character of the judgment foretold: God’s power should interpose to keep the prophet to his work. Not only pity, but even human weakness and weariness, should be excluded from interfering. The prophet is spoken of as besieging the city, because he is doing so in figure.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL LAY BANDS UPON THEE - Contrast margin reference. The Lord will put constraint upon him, to cause him to exercise his office. In the retirement of his house, figuratively bound and under constra...

  • 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

    (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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterisimos_ App-6....

  • 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

    _from one side to another_ lit. _from thy side to thy side_. Here the prophet represents those pressed by the rigours of the siege, as in Ezekiel 4:4. The "days of thy siege" most naturally means the...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE DAYS OF THY SIEGE— That is, the three hundred and ninety days' siege of Jerusalem, mentioned in the preceding verse. That siege, from the beginning to the ending of it, lasted seventy-seven months...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. I WILL LAY BANDS UPON THEE - () i:e., a constraint or re...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BANDS] By some divine restraint Ezekiel would be prevented from turning. THE DAYS OF THY SIEGE] The number 430 represented the days of the siege of Jerusalem as well as the sum of the years of the two...

  • 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

    וְ הִנֵּ֛ה נָתַ֥תִּי עָלֶ֖יךָ עֲבֹותִ֑ים וְ ל

  • 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

    And, behold, I will lay (e) cords upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. (e) The people would so straightly be besieged that the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    AND, BEHOLD, I WILL LAY HANDS UPON THEE,.... Representing either the besieged, signifying that they should be taken and bound as he was; or rather the besiegers, the Chaldean army, which should be so...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. Ver. 8. _And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee._] To show...

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

    _Thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem_ Thou shalt look toward Jerusalem, or toward the portraiture of it upon the tile, with a threatening countenance, as men do toward the city which...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, holding him down, causing him to hold out with patience in the difficult feat proposed, AND THOU SHALT NOT TURN THEE FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER, to relieve the t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SYMBOL OF THE SIEGE...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FROM ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER: _ Heb._ from thy side to thy side...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Whoever were the persons that laid bonds on Ezekiel, in EZEKIEL 3:25, here it is plain that the Lord doth it. If the prophet represent the besieged citizens who must be captives in bonds, then it is l...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 4:8 restrain H5414 (H8804) H5688 turn H2015 (H8735) side H6654 another H6654 ended H3615 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And you shall set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered, and you will prophesy against it, and behold I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to...

  • 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

    _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...

  • 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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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 3:25...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bands — An invisible restraint assuring him, that those could no more remove from the siege, than he from that side he lay on....

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