Thematic Bible
Ezekiel 4:1 (show verse)
Thou son of man, take a tile stone, and lay it before thee, and describe upon it the city of Jerusalem;
Ezekiel 4:2 (show verse)
how it is besieged, how bulwarks and strong ditches are graven on every side of it. Describe also the tents, and a host of men round about it.
Ezekiel 4:3 (show verse)
Moreover, take an iron pan, and set it betwixt thee and the city instead of an iron wall. Then set thy face toward it, besiege it, and lay ordinance against it, to win it. This shall be a token unto the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 (show verse)
But thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and lay the sin of the house of Israel upon thee. Certain days appointed, thou shalt sleep upon that side, and bear their sins.
Ezekiel 4:5 (show verse)
Nevertheless, I will appoint thee a time to put out their sins and the number of the days: Three hundred and ninety days must thou bear the wickedness of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:6 (show verse)
When thou hast fulfilled these days, lie down again, and sleep upon thy right side forty days, and bear the sins of the house of Judah. A day for a year; a day, I say, for a year will I ever lay upon thee.
Ezekiel 4:7 (show verse)
Therefore set now thy face against that besieged Jerusalem, and discover thine arm, that thou mayest prophesy against it.
Ezekiel 4:8 (show verse)
Behold, I will lay chains upon thee, that thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
Ezekiel 4:9 (show verse)
"Wherefore, take unto thee wheat, barley, beans, growell seed, Millium and fitches: and put these together in a vessel, and make thee loaves of bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou must lie upon thy side: that thou mayest have bread to eat, for three hundred and ninety days.
Ezekiel 4:10 (show verse)
And the meat that thou eatest, shall have a certain weight appointed: namely twenty shekels every day. This appointed meat shalt thou eat daily, from the beginning to the end.
Ezekiel 4:11 (show verse)
Thou shalt drink also a certain measure of water: Namely, the sixth part of a Hin shalt thou drink daily from the beginning to the end.
Ezekiel 4:12 (show verse)
Barley cakes shalt thou eat, yet shalt thou first strike them over with man's dung, that they may see it."
Ezekiel 4:13 (show verse)
And with that said the LORD, "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread in the midst of the Gentiles, among whom I will scatter them."
Ezekiel 4:14 (show verse)
Then said I, "O LORD God: Behold, my soul was yet never stained, for from my youth up to this hour. I did never eat of a dead carcass, or that which was slain of wild beasts, neither came there ever any unclean flesh in my mouth."
Ezekiel 4:15 (show verse)
Whereunto he answered me, and said, "Well then, I will grant thee to take cow's dung, for the dung of a man, and to strike the bread over withal, before them."
Ezekiel 4:16 (show verse)
And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.
Ezekiel 4:17 (show verse)
And when they have no more bread nor water, one shall be destroyed with another, and famish away for their wickedness."