I have laid — I have pointed out the number of years wherein apostate Israel sinned against me, and I did bear with them. Years — These years probably began at Solomon's falling to idolatry, in the twenty — seventh year of his reign, and ended in the fifth of Zedekiah's captivity.
ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS - Or, “to be to thee as a number of days (even as)” etc. Compare the margin reference. Some conceive that these “days” were the years during which Israel and Judah...
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...
(B) THE EXILE: ITS DURATION. The next action is more curious. Ezekiel is represented as lying upon his side for 190 days (as LXX correctly reads in Ezekiel 4:5) to symbolise the years of punishment in...
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS. These were to be literal "days" to Ezekiel, and were to represent 390 literal "years". The date of the command is not material to the understanding of this prophecy. The...
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...
Symbol of the people's bearing their iniquity In the former symbol the prophet carried on the siege, representing the besiegers; here he changes his part and represents the besieged. This symbol is s...
Read with R.V., FOR I HAVE APPOINTED THE YEARS OF THEIR INIQUITY TO BE UNTO THEE A NUMBER OF DAYS, even 390 days. The number of years during which the people shall bear their iniquity is symbolized by...
_EZEKIEL 4:5_.— _Three hundred and ninety days_] This number of years, see Ezekiel 4:6 will take us back, with sufficient exactness, from the year in which Jerusalem was sacked by Nebuchadrezzar to th...
II. PARABLE OF ISRAEL'S SIN 4:4-8 TRANSLATION (4) And as for you, lie upon your left side, and set the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. The number of days in which you lay upon it you shall b...
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. THREE HUNDRED AND...
THIS] the city depicted on the tile (Ezekiel 4:1). IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS] God gave Jerusalem a great opportunity of displaying His righteousness and truth to the world. Her position, near the hi...
§ 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
וַ אֲנִ֗י נָתַ֤תִּֽי לְךָ֙ אֶת ־שְׁנֵ֣י עֲוֹנ
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...
Three, &c. St. Jerome says some "Vulgate," (Haydock) Latin, (Calmet) or rather incorrect Greek (Haydock) copies read 100, others 150. See Origen, &c. (Calmet) --- The Alexandrian copy has the former,...
I cannot but think somewhat more than Ezekiel, as a servant, and the captivity of the people in Babylon, was intended by this type. At least it is hardly possible to overlook Christ, the one and only...
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...
FOR I HAVE LAID UPON THEE THE YEARS OF THEIR INIQUITY,.... Or the iniquity which for so many years they have been guilty of; that is, the punishment of it: ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS; a day...
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. Ver. 5. _Three hundr...
_Lie thou also_, &c. “In his own house, Ezekiel 3:24. This was to be his posture, not without intermission, but in the exercise of his prophetical office, during that part of each day, when the people...
THE SYMBOL OF THE SIEGE...
For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, that Ezekiel was, figuratively, bearing their guilt, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS, THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS, a number of years which...
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...
This verse explains the former. I have pointed out the number of years wherein apostate Israel sinned against me, and I did bear with them according to the number of days, wherein thou must lie on thy...
Ezekiel 4:5 laid H5414 (H8804) years H8141 iniquity H5771 number H4557 days H3117 three H7969 hundred H3967 ninety...
“Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of days you will lie on it. You will bear their iniquity. For I have appointed the years of...
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
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...
Isaiah 53:6; Jeremiah 52:30...