Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 4:3
A wall — That it may resemble a wall of iron, for as impregnable as such a wall, shall the resolution and patience of the Chaldeans be.
A wall — That it may resemble a wall of iron, for as impregnable as such a wall, shall the resolution and patience of the Chaldeans be.
Verse Ezekiel 4:3. _TAKE THOU UNTO THEE AN IRON PAN_] מחבת _machabath_, a _flat plate_ or _slice_, as the margin properly renders it: such as are used in some countries to bake bread on, called a _gr...
AN IRON PAN - Another figure in the coming siege. On Assyrian sculptures from Nimroud and Kouyunjik there are sieges of cities with “forts, mounts, and rams;” and together with these we see a kind of...
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...
EZEKIEL 4, 5. FOUR SYMBOLS, PROPHETIC OF THE COMING DOOM OF JERUSALEM. Ezekiel 4:1. (A) THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM But if Ezekiel may not speak, he is a prophet still, preaching, if not by the word, at l...
PAN. a flat plate, as used for baking. SET THY FACE. Ref to Pentateuch (Leviticus 17:10; Leviticus 20:3; Leviticus 20:5; Levit
Ezekiel 4:1-3. Symbolical siege of Jerusalem The prophet is commanded to take a brick (it is to be supposed still soft) and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem. Around the city he is to draw represe...
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...
_an iron pan_ As marg. _plate_, i.e. griddle on which cakes were fired (Leviticus 2:5). This common article the prophet is to set up between him and the city to represent an iron wall. As the plate is...
TAKE THOU UNTO THEE AN IRON PAN— The prophet takes to him an iron pot or vessel, such as fire was wont to be carried in before the Chaldean and Persian generals, when they went to battle. And he _puts...
CHAPTER FOUR DRAMATIC PARABLES 4:1-5:4 The use of symbolic actions by Old Testament prophets was a tried and true way of gaining an audience and underscoring a point.[138] The great prophets Isaiah a...
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 sha...
PAN] RM 'flat plate,' such as was used for baking (Leviticus 6:21; Leviticus 7:9). This may be taken as a symbol either of the stubbornness of the defence or of the rigour of the siege. Or it may repr...
§ 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
וְ אַתָּ֤ה קַח ־לְךָ֙ מַחֲבַ֣ת בַּרְזֶ֔ל וְ
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...
Moreover take thou to thee an (a) 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...
_Pan, or plate, on which bread was usually baked. This was to represent the walls of the city. (Calmet)_...
There is somewhat very striking in the ministry of Ezekiel, different from that of other Prophets for the most part. He was not only to deliver God's truths by word of mouth: but also to represent by...
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...
MOREOVER TAKE THOU UNTO THEE AN IRON PAN,.... Which Kimchi thinks, for its metal, represented the hardness of the hearts of the people of Israel; and, for its colour, the blackness of their sins: thou...
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 [s...
_And lay siege against it_ Make a portraiture of a siege, and of such warlike instruments as are used in sieges, figuring every thing just as when an army lies before a place with an intention of taki...
THE SYMBOL OF THE SIEGE...
Moreover, take thou unto thee an iron pan, such as were used in Jewish households, as well as in the Temple, AND SET IT FOR A WALL OF IRON BETWEEN THEE AND THE CITY, as representing the divine decree...
IRON PAN: Or, a flat plate, or slice...
1-8 The prophet was to represent the siege of Jerusalem by signs. He was to lie on his left side for a number of days, supposed to be equal to the years from the establishment of idolatry. All that th...
AN IRON PAN, to signify the hardness and obstinacy of the besiegers; probably a frying-pan, on the plain part of which the the bearing the portrait of Jerusalem lying, the iron edges or brims compasse...
Ezekiel 4:3 take H3947 (H8798) iron H1270 plate H4227 set H5414 (H8804) iron H1270 wall H7023 city...
“You also, son of man, you take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem, and lay siege against it, and build forts against it. Set camps also against it, and plant batt...
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...
_Take thee a tile._ THE MINISTRY OF SYMBOLISM In this chapter there begins a series of symbols utterly impossible of modern interpretation. This ministry of symbolism has still a place in all progres...
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 4:3 The SIGN ensures that the siege, which could have been interpreted as God’s passive neglect, will be understood as his deliberate hostility against his people....
3. FIRST INSTRUCTIONS BY SIGNS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION (Chaps. Ezekiel 4:1 to Ezekiel 5:17). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel is ordered to carry out certain specified processes. Their purport is expressed...
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...
Ezekiel 12:11; Ezekiel 12:6; Ezekiel 24:24; Hebrews 2:4; Isaiah 20:3