Thematic Bible
Ezekiel 4:1 (show verse)
"And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it -- Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 4:2 (show verse)
Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it.
military Arms » For sieges: » Battering rams
Fort » Field fortifications
Instruction » Illustrations on a tile
Pantomime » By ezekiel
Sieges » Those engaged in » Employed battering rams, &c against the walls
Sieges » Those engaged in » Built forts and mounts
Symbols and similitudes » A siege
Walls » Of cities » Were battered by besieging armies
Fort » Field fortifications
Instruction » Illustrations on a tile
Pantomime » By ezekiel
Sieges » Those engaged in » Employed battering rams, &c against the walls
Sieges » Those engaged in » Built forts and mounts
Symbols and similitudes » A siege
Walls » Of cities » Were battered by besieging armies
Ezekiel 4:3 (show verse)
Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:4 (show verse)
"Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.
Ezekiel 4:5 (show verse)
I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days for you -- 390 days. So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:6 (show verse)
"When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days -- I have assigned one day for each year.
Days » Prophetical, a year
Days » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
Forty » Days » Symbolical
Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
Instruction » Lying on one side in public view for a long period
Pantomime » By ezekiel
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
Symbols and similitudes » Posture
Days » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
Forty » Days » Symbolical
Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
Instruction » Lying on one side in public view for a long period
Pantomime » By ezekiel
Periods and numbers » Forty days » Ezekiel's typical period
Symbols and similitudes » Posture
Ezekiel 4:7 (show verse)
You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.
Ezekiel 4:8 (show verse)
Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.
Ezekiel 4:9 (show verse)
"As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side -- 390 days -- you will eat it.
Ezekiel 4:10 (show verse)
The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
Ezekiel 4:11 (show verse)
And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.
Ezekiel 4:12 (show verse)
And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement."
Ezekiel 4:13 (show verse)
And the Lord said, "This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them."
Ezekiel 4:14 (show verse)
And I said, "Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth."
Ezekiel 4:15 (show verse)
So he said to me, "All right then, I will substitute cow's manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it."
Ezekiel 4:16 (show verse)
Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
Bread » Staff of life
Bread » In times of scarcity, sold by weight
Bread » Called the staff of life
overmuch Care » Sent as a punishment to the wicked
Famine » Threatened as the result of sin
Famine » Provisions sold by weight during
Instruction » Eating bread mixed with dung
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Symbols and similitudes » Ceremonially unclean food
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
Bread » In times of scarcity, sold by weight
Bread » Called the staff of life
overmuch Care » Sent as a punishment to the wicked
Famine » Threatened as the result of sin
Famine » Provisions sold by weight during
Instruction » Eating bread mixed with dung
Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
Symbols and similitudes » Ceremonially unclean food
Weights » Provisions were sold by, in times of scarcity
Ezekiel 4:17 (show verse)
because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.