Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ezekiel 12:18
Eat thy bread with quaking. — This is another symbolical action, the meaning of which is immediately explained. The prophet is to eat and drink as men in the terror and distress of a siege.
Eat thy bread with quaking. — This is another symbolical action, the meaning of which is immediately explained. The prophet is to eat and drink as men in the terror and distress of a siege.
Verse Ezekiel 12:18. _EAT THY BREAD WITH QUAKING_] Assume the manner of a person who is every moment afraid of his life, who has nothing but a morsel of bread to eat, and a little water to drink. Thu...
Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates....
CHAPTER S 12-19 Signs, Messages, and Parables _ 1. Signs given through the prophet (Ezekiel 12:1) _ 2. The message of speedy judgment (Ezekiel 12:21) 3. The message against false prophets and prop...
THE STRAITS OF THE SIEGE. In another message whose symbols resemble those of Ezekiel 4:10 f., Ezekiel 4:16 f., he seeks to bring home to them the certain and horrible privations of the siege....
I WILL LEAVE, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:27). MEN. Hebrew, plural of enosh. App-14. FROM. Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and f...
It is obvious that this symbol could not have been actually performed. Cf. ch. Ezekiel 4:16....
A new symbol of the terror and violence and desolation about to come upon the land....
B. The Suffering of Jerusalem's Inhabitants 12:17-20 TRANSLATION (17) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling...
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; EAT THY BREAD WITH QUAKING, AND DRINK THY WATER WITH TREMBLING. Symbolical representation of the fa...
SYMBOLS OF EXILE, FLIGHT, AND FAMINE Ezekiel's audience being blind to the meaning of the vision he has just described, he is commanded to give them, in new symbolic actions, a further representation...
§ 4. FURTHER PROPHECIES OF ISRAEL'S GUILT AND APPROACHING PUNISHMENT (EZEKIEL 12-19) This is a somewhat miscellaneous group of prophecies intermediate in date between the preceding (August-September,...
PILLOWS] probably 'amulets,' supposed to have magical virtues. They were worn by the false prophetesses themselves (Ezekiel 12:20). ARMHOLES] RV 'elbows,' RM 'joints of the hands.' The amulets were wo...
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 12 *PROPHECY OF THE *EXILE – EZEKIEL 12:1-20 V1 Th
בֶּן ־אָדָ֕ם לַחְמְךָ֖ בְּ רַ֣עַשׁ תֹּאכֵ֑ל ו
The prophet was next commanded to act in the sight of the people as an exile going forth from his country, preparing "stuff for removing," and carrying it forth from place to place. He obeyed the comm...
_Sorrow. Act like one under great anxiety and distress. (Calmet)_...
We have here another sermon of the Prophet; which though short is solemn, and full of significance. The whole nation of Israel is under divine correction. The portion already carried away into Babylon...
Chapter 12 announces the fight and the capture of Zedekiah, who would be carried to Babylon though he would. not see it. All the force of Judah would be dispersed, and the land laid desolate; a small...
SON OF MAN, EAT THY BREAD WITH QUAKING,.... As one in surprise or fear, or that has got an ague upon him: AND DRINK THY WATER WITH TREMBLING AND WITH CAREFULNESS; fearing want of it, or as apprehensi...
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; Ver. 18. _Eat thy bread with quaking._] With tumult and trepidation, as a frightened and perplexed per...
_Moreover_, &c. As he was a sign to them in digging through the wall and carrying out his stuff, so he must now be a sign to them in another way. _Eat thy bread with quaking_, &c. Show all the signs o...
THE SIGN OF BREAD AND WATER...
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness, his entire bearing, as he partook of his scanty meal, of the barest necessaries of life, being one of an...
17-20 The prophet must eat and drink in care and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. When ministers speak of the ruin coming upon sinners,...
WITH QUAKING; with commotion or shakings, as one whose apprehension of danger brings as it were an earthquake upon him; and this trembling is the same thing, but in other words. _Thy water_: here is n...
Ezekiel 12:18 Son H1121 man H120 eat H398 (H8799) bread H3899 quaking H7494 drink H8354 (H8799) water...
THE FEAR COMING ON THE LAND. ‘Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness.” ' This indicates a f...
CONTENTS: Vision of the prophet as a sign. Full captivity near at hand. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Sinners often try to think their works are not evil because sentence upon them is not ex...
Ezekiel 12:3. _Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing._ Bring out thy goods ready packed up, and place the baggage before thy door. As the captives on the Chebar would neither see nor hear the pr...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 12:1 The predictions of exile in this chapter come during a time when the exile has already begun. Thus, the chapter probably relates to the uncertain decade between 597 B.C. ...
(2.) THE SYMBOL FROM BREAD AND WATER (Ezekiel 12:17) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet is commanded to take his ordinary meals as a man under great apprehensions. It is not, as in chap. Ezekiel 4:16, that...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 12:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD, etc. This formula, so familiar in Isaiah and Jeremiah, appears for the first time in Ezekiel, but occurs repeatedly afterwards, especially in this chapte...
CHAPTER 12. THE VISION OF EZEKIEL'S TYPICAL REMOVING AS AN EXILE, AND ACCOMPANYING INSTRUCTIONS. Ezekiel 12:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 12:2. Son of man, thou dwellest i...
The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and they do not see; they have ears to hear, and they do not hear: for...
Deuteronomy 28:48; Deuteronomy 28:65; Ezekiel 23:33; Ezekiel 4:16;...