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Verse Ezekiel 4:14. _MY SOUL HATH NOT BEEN POLLUTED_] There is a
remarkable similarity between this expostulation of the prophet and
that of St. Peter, Acts 10:14....
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ABOMINABLE FLESH - Flesh that had become corrupt and foul by
overkeeping. Compare Leviticus 19:7....
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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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LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. See App-4.
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.
THAT WHICH DIETH OF ITSELF. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus
22:31.Leviticus 11:39; Leviticus 11:40;...
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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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_abominable flesh_ This word "abomination" is applied to the
sacrificial flesh kept over till the third day (Leviticus 7:18;
Leviticus 19:7), and in Isaiah 65:4 broth of "abominations" is coupled
with...
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ABOMINABLE FLESH— This probably means whatever was unclean and
particularly forbidden by the Mosaic law. See Leviticus 7:18;
Leviticus 19:7. Isaiah 65:4.
REFLECTIONS.—1st, Whether the transactions men...
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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 said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for
from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of
itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominabl...
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4:14 soul (c-9) Or 'my person.' abominable (d-41) Or 'unclean,' as
Leviticus 7:18 ; Leviticus 19:7 ; Isaiah 65:4 ....
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Ezekiel, as a priest, was peculiarly sensitive about ceremonial
defilement....
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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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וָ אֹמַ֗ר אֲהָהּ֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה
הִנֵּ֥ה נַ
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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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_Ah. He makes the same exclamation as Jeremias, i. 6. Hebrew aha.
Theodotion, "Oh!" Septuagint and Symmachus, "by no means." (Haydock)
--- God forbid. Excrements make a person legally unclean, Deutero...
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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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The Prophet here inserts the answer which he received to his request
that God would relax his severe command: for it was abominable to eat
flesh cooked with human dung, not only on account of the sten...
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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 SAID I, AH, LORD GOD!.... The interjection "ah" is expressive of
sighing and groaning, as Jarchi; or of deprecation, as the Targum,
which paraphrases it,
"and I said", receive my prayer, O Lord...
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Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for
from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of
itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable...
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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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Then said I, in voicing an objection to the loathsome fuel proposed by
the Lord, AH, LORD GOD! BEHOLD, MY SOUL HATH NOT BEEN POLLUTED, for so
he might interpret Leviticus 5:3; Leviticus 7:21 as pertai...
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THE SYMBOLS OF THE FAMINE...
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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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AH LORD GOD he deprecateth this, and entreats it may not be enjoined
him. He proposeth his legal purity, as one argument; in obedience to
ceremonial precepts, he had kept himself clean, and now prays...
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Ezekiel 4:14 said H559 (H8799) Ah H162 Lord H136 GOD H3069 I H5315
defiled H2930 (H8794) youth...
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‘Then said I, “Ah, Lord Yahweh. Behold my life has not been
polluted, for from my youth up, even until now, I have not eaten of
what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, nor came there any
abominable...
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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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Acts 10:14; Deuteronomy 14:3; Exodus 22:31; Ezekiel 20:49; Ezekiel 9:8