Ezekiel 4 - Study the King James Bible

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

take: Ezekiel 5:1-17, Ezekiel 12:3-16, 1 Samuel 15:27, 1 Samuel 15:28, 1 Kings 11:30, 1 Kings 11:31, Isaiah 20:2-4, Jeremiah 13:1-14, Jeremiah 18:2-12, Jeremiah 19:1-15, Jeremiah 25:15-38, Jeremiah 27:2-22, Hosea 1:2-9, Hosea 3:1-5, Hosea 12:10
a tile: לבנה [Strong's H3843], levainah generally denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps, however, it may here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57.
even: Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 32:31, Amos 3:2
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:52 - General 2 Kings 13:18 - Smite 2 Kings 25:1 - pitched Jeremiah 43:9 - great Jeremiah 52:4 - pitched Ezekiel 2:1 - Son Ezekiel 3:24 - Go Ezekiel 5:2 - the city Ezekiel 5:5 - This Ezekiel 21:19 - General

And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

lay: Jeremiah 39:1, Jeremiah 39:2, Jeremiah 52:4, Luke 19:42-44
battering rams: or, chief leaders, Ezekiel 21:22
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 33:4 - thrown Ezekiel 17:17 - by

Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

an iron pan: or, a flat plate, or slice, Leviticus 2:5
This: Ezekiel 12:6, Ezekiel 12:11, Ezekiel 24:24-27, Isaiah 8:18, Isaiah 20:3, Luke 2:34, Hebrews 2:4
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:35 - Smite me Ezekiel 4:7 - set Ezekiel 13:17 - set thy Ezekiel 21:2 - set Daniel 11:17 - set

Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

upon: Ezekiel 4:5, Ezekiel 4:8
and lay: 2 Kings 17:21-23
thou shalt bear: Leviticus 10:17, Leviticus 16:22, Numbers 14:34, Numbers 18:1, Isaiah 53:11, Isaiah 53:12, Matthew 8:17, Hebrews 9:28, 1 Peter 2:24
Reciprocal: Exodus 28:38 - bear the iniquity Ezekiel 18:20 - bear

For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

I have: Isaiah 53:6
three: This number of years will take us back from the year in which Judea was finally desolated by Nebuzar-adan, bc 584, to the establishment of idolatry in Israel by Jeroboam, bc 975. "Beginning from 1 Kings 12:33. Ending Jeremiah 52:30.
Reciprocal: Isaiah 20:2 - Go Isaiah 20:3 - three Ezekiel 4:4 - upon Ezekiel 4:9 - three

And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

forty days: This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, bc 624, to the same final desolation of the land. Some think that the period of 390 days also predicts the duration of the siege of the Babylonians - Ezekiel 4:9, deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days, when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians - 2 Kings 25:1-4, Jeremiah 37:5, and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from 2 Kings 23:3, 2 Kings 23:23. Ending Jeremiah 52:30."
each day for a year: Heb. a day for a year, a day for a year, Numbers 14:34, Daniel 9:24-26, Daniel 12:11, Daniel 12:12, Revelation 9:15, Revelation 11:2, Revelation 11:3, Revelation 12:14, Revelation 13:5
Reciprocal: Isaiah 20:3 - three

Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

set: Ezekiel 4:3, Ezekiel 6:2
and thine: Isaiah 52:10
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 20:46 - set Ezekiel 21:2 - set Daniel 11:17 - set

And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

I will: Ezekiel 3:25
from one side to another: Heb. from thy side to thy side
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 4:4 - upon

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

wheat: Ezekiel 4:13, Ezekiel 4:16
millet: Dochan in Arabic, dokhn the holcus dochna of Forskal, is a kind of millet, of considerable use as a food; the cultivation of which is described by Browne.
fitches: or, spelt, Kussemim is doubtless זוב, or spelt, as Aquila and Symmachus render here; and so LXX and Theodotion, ןכץסב. In times of scarcity it is customary to mix several kinds of coarser grains with the finer, to make it last the longer.
three: Ezekiel 4:5
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 25:3 - the famine Isaiah 28:25 - in the principal Jeremiah 52:6 - the famine Lamentations 5:4 - have Ezekiel 4:6 - forty days

10.

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 14:13, Leviticus 26:26, Deuteronomy 28:51-68, Isaiah 3:1
Reciprocal: Revelation 6:5 - had

11.

Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

shalt drink: Ezekiel 4:16, Isaiah 5:13, John 3:34
Reciprocal: Exodus 29:40 - hin Leviticus 23:13 - the fourth

12.

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

cakes: a "round" thing, Genesis 18:6
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 21:6 - before

13.

And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

Daniel 1:8, Hosea 9:3, Hosea 9:4
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:25 - an ass's head 2 Kings 18:27 - eat Isaiah 30:20 - the bread Ezekiel 4:9 - wheat Amos 7:17 - die

14.

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 flesh into my mouth.

Ah: Ezekiel 9:8, Ezekiel 20:49, Jeremiah 1:6
my soul: Acts 10:14
have I: Exodus 22:31, Leviticus 11:39, Leviticus 11:40, Leviticus 17:15
abominable: Leviticus 19:7, Deuteronomy 14:3, Isaiah 65:4, Isaiah 66:17
Reciprocal: Exodus 22:13 - torn in pieces Leviticus 7:21 - abominable Leviticus 7:24 - beast Leviticus 11:2 - General Deuteronomy 14:21 - any thing Job 6:7 - as my sorrowful meat Daniel 1:8 - defile Malachi 1:13 - torn Matthew 14:20 - were Acts 15:20 - things Colossians 2:16 - in meat Hebrews 9:10 - in meats

15.

Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

cow's dung: Dried cow-dung is a common fuel in the East, as it is in many parts of England, to the present day; but the prophet was ordered to prepare his bread with human ordure, to shew the extreme degree of wretchedness to which the besieged should be exposed, as they would be obliged literally to use it, from not being able to leave the city to collect other fuel. Ezekiel 4:15
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:27 - eat Lamentations 1:11 - seek

16.

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

I will: Ezekiel 5:16, Ezekiel 14:13, Leviticus 26:26, Psalms 105:16, Isaiah 3:1
eat: The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure. Ezekiel 4:10, Ezekiel 4:11, Ezekiel 12:18, Ezekiel 12:19, Psalms 60:3, Lamentations 1:11, Lamentations 4:9, Lamentations 4:10, Lamentations 5:9
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:48 - in hunger Job 6:7 - as my sorrowful meat Job 21:25 - never Psalms 80:5 - General Psalms 104:15 - bread Ecclesiastes 5:17 - he eateth Isaiah 36:12 - that they may Ezekiel 4:9 - wheat Amos 4:8 - but Micah 6:14 - eat Haggai 1:6 - eat Revelation 6:5 - had

17.

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

and consume: Ezekiel 24:23, Leviticus 26:39
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:28 - General Deuteronomy 28:48 - in hunger Job 21:25 - never Psalms 80:5 - General Ecclesiastes 5:17 - he eateth Isaiah 3:1 - the stay Lamentations 5:9 - General Ezekiel 12:18 - General Micah 6:14 - eat Haggai 1:6 - eat