Ezekiel 5:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

The evil

And will

Isaiah 3:1

General references

Leviticus 26:26

Jeremiah 24:10

Bible References

The evil

“I will pile disasters on them;
I will use up My arrows against them.

He has prepared His deadly weapons;
He tips His arrows with fire.

You will not fear the terror of the night,
the arrow that flies by day,

He strung His bow
and set me as the target for His arrow.

And will

Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of bread, to send famine through it, and to wipe out both man and animal from it,

When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five silver shekels.

Observe this: The Lord God of Hosts
is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah
every kind of security:
the entire supply of bread and water,

General references

When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

I will send the sword, famine, and plague against them until they have perished from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.”