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 send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.

He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

And will

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

General references

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.