And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles - implying that Israel's special distinction was to be abolished, and that they were to be outwardly blended with the idolatrous pagan (; ).
The ceremonial ordinances in relation to food were intended to keep the nation free from idolatrous usages; everywhere among the pagan idol feasts formed a leading part in their religious services, an...
Ezekiel 4:1. The word tile means “brick.” They were used by the Babylonians to preserve their records, and many have been found marked with building plans, etc. The sign of the tile foretells the sieg...
(C) THE HARDSHIPS OF THE EXILES AND THE BESIEGED. The horrors of famine, consequent upon the siege, are suggested by the symbolical action of this section, in which the prophet's food and drink are to...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. CHILDREN. sons. GENTILES. nations....
_eat their defiled bread_ Rather: EAT THEIR BREAD UNCLEAN. This is the meaning of the symbol: the food which the people shall eat among the nations will be unclean. In a pathetic passage of Hosea it i...
Symbol of scarcity during the siege and pollution in the dispersion from having to eat unclean things among the Gentiles The passage continues Ezekiel 4:8. The prophet is commanded (while lying immov...
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
EAT THEIR DEFILED BREAD, &C.— The prophet, speaking above of eating and drinking by weight and measure, foretels the famine in Jerusalem; now, in the bread baked with dung is pre-signified the unclean...
III. THE PARABLE OF JERUSALEM'S FAMINE 4:9-17 TRANSLATION (9) NOW as for You, take to you wheat and barley, and beans and lentils and millet and fitches, and put them in a vessel, and prepare them fo...
4:13 unclean (b-13) Or 'defiled,' as ver. 14....
CAUSE MY FURY TO REST] RV 'satisfy my fury.' EAT THEIR DEFILED BREAD] RV 'eat their bread unclean.' Foreign lands were regarded as unclean in themselves (Amos 7:17), and, besides, all food eaten in th...
§ 2. THE OVERTHROW OF THE JEWISH KINGDOM FORETOLD (EZEKIEL 4-7) The great theme of the first part of Ezekiel's prophetic ministry was the certainty of the complete downfall of the Jewish state. Though...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 THE BRICK AND THE IRON PLATE – EZEKIEL 4:1-8 V1 ‘*Son
EAT THEIR DEFILED BREAD AMONG THE GENTILES. — The Mosaic law purposely so hedged the people about with detailed precepts in regard to their food and its preparation, that it was impossible for them to...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה כָּ֣כָה יֹאכְל֧וּ בְנֵֽי...
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...
The second division of the Book contains the messages of the prophet concerning the reprobation of the chosen nation. These fall into three parts. In the first, by symbolism and speech he described th...
_Filthy. Israel was less careful to avoid uncleannesses than Juda. Hence the prophet eats only during 390 days, Osee ix. 3. (Calmet) --- While the city was pillage for forty days, the prisoners would...
The Reader will have a better idea of the coarse and scanty fare of the Prophet, if he understands, that this mixed grain not only made the whole unpleasant, but the allowance was scarcely enough, (an...
Besides the general judgment that God pronounced upon the condition of Israel, Jerusalem-on whom lay all the iniquity of the people now come to its height-appears before God whom she had despised. The...
AND THE LORD SAID, EVEN THUS SHALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... Not the ten tribes only, or those who were among the other two, but all the Jews in captivity: EAT THE DEFILED BREAD AMONG THE GENTILES,...
_And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them._ Ver. 13. _Eat their defiled bread._] Not able now to observe that ce...
THE SYMBOLS OF THE FAMINE...
And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread, polluted with the odor of the unspeakable fuel used, AMONG THE GENTILES, WHITHER I WILL DRIVE THEM, where they would...
9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity....
This verse is a key to the former. EVEN THUS; scanty, mean, ill-dressed, and polluted in the very dressing, loathsome to any but starved bellies. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; not only the house of Judah, b...
Ezekiel 4:13 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) children H1121 Israel H3478 eat H398 (H8799) defiled H2931 bread...
‘And Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their food unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.” ' The eating of food in this way would not only indicate the coming siege,...
CONTENTS: The sign of the tile. Typical representations. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: If men will not serve God with cheerfulness in the abundance of all things, God will make them serve th...
Ezekiel 4:1. _Son of man, take thee a tile._ It is probable that the prophet took a sheet of plastic clay proper for his purpose; for the Hebrew root בנה _banah,_ is generally applied to construction...
_Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread._ CONFORMITY OF PUNISHMENT TO SIN They had sinned in excess, and God would take away their plenty. Hosea 13:6, “According to their past...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 4:1 Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah. The oracles of chs. Ezekiel 4:1 come before Jerusalem’s downfall in 587 B.C. Although the sequence
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 4:12 Ezekiel objects when he is told to use HUMAN DUNG for fuel. Animal dung was a common fuel (v. Ezekiel 4:15; see...
_Scanty means of subsistence symbolising punishment_ (chap. Ezekiel 4:9) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 4:9. The several sorts of vegetable food—the richest and the poorest in nutritive elements—being pla...
EXPOSITION Prior to any detailed examination of the strange series of acts recorded in this and the following chapter, we are met with the question whether they were indeed visible and outward acts,...
CHAPTER 4. THE VISION OF THE SIEGE AND THE INIQUITY-BEARING. Ezekiel 4:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and set it before thee, and engrave on it the city Jerusalem._ Ezekiel 4:2. _And l...
Now thou also, Son of man, take a tile (Ezekiel 4:1), Now this is a brick, and it's about twelve inches by fourteen inches. The archeologists have uncovered thousands of these bricks there in the area...
Daniel 1:8; Hosea 9:3; Hosea 9:4...