Water by measure - This probably corresponds to the water of affliction 1 Kings 22:27; Isaiah 30:20. The measure of the hin is variously estimated by Jewish writers. The sixth part of a hin will be according to one estimate about 610ths, according to another 910ths of a pint. The lesser estimate is more suitable here.
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...
HIN. See App-51....
_sixth_part _of a hin_ The hin was rather less than a gallon, and the sixth part under a quart. Both the bread and water were to be consumed from time to time, always in unsatisfying quantities....
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 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...
THE SIXTH PART OF AN HIN— An hin was about ten pints. The prophet was to take this pittance from day to day, and in small portions from time to time of the same day, while he subjected himself to publ...
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...
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. THOU SHALT DRINK ALSO WATER BY MEASURE, THE SIXTH PART OF AN HIN - about a pint and a half....
§ 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...
DEFILED MY SANCTUARY] This charge is substantiated at length in Ezekiel 8. THE SIXTH PART OF AN HIN] less than a quart....
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
THE SIXTH PART OF AN HIN. — There is also a difference among the authorities as to the measures of capacity for liquids. These would make the sixth part of an hin from six-tenths to nine-tenths of a p...
וּ מַ֛יִם בִּ מְשׂוּרָ֥ה תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה שִׁשִּׁ֣ית...
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...
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of (i) an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. (i) See Exodus 29:40...
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...
THOU SHALL DRINK ALSO WATER BY MEASURE,.... Not wine, but water; and this not as much as he would, but a certain measure; which shows great want of it, and expresses a very distressed condition see La...
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. Ver. 11. _From time to time shalt thou drink,_] _i.e., _ At thy set times, _in stata tempera comp...
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, instead of according to desire and ordinary need, THE SIXTH PART OF AN HIN, approximately a pint and a half; FROM TIME TO TIME SHALT THOU DRINK....
THE SYMBOLS OF THE FAMINE...
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....
WATER; not wine or cordial drinks, but cold and thin water, nor a bellyful of this. THE SIXTH PART OF AN HIN; about six ounces of water, and that measured out by others to him that drinks it, scarce e...
Ezekiel 4:11 drink H8354 (H8799) water H4325 measure H4884 one-sixth H8345 hin H1969 time H6256 time H6256 drink...
“And you will drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. Each day at the same time you will drink it.” As for food, so for water. He was allowed a little over 0.6 litres (a pint). This was hardl...
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 4:11 THE SIXTH PART OF A HIN is roughly equivalent to 1.4 pints (0.6 liters). ⇐...
_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...
Ezekiel 4:16; Isaiah 5:13; John 3:34...
The sixth part — About six ounces....