Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 4:15
Then he said to me, Lo, I have given thee cow's (m) dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with them.
(m) To be as fire to bake your bread with.
Then he said to me, Lo, I have given thee cow's (m) dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with them.
(m) To be as fire to bake your bread with.
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...
LO. Figure of speech _Aster's._ App-6. GIVEN. Same word as "appointed", Ezekiel 4:6. THEREWITH: or., thereupon. Compare Ezekiel 4:12....
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...
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...
Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. I HAVE GIVEN THEE COW'S DUNG FOR MAN'S DUNG - a mitigation of the former order ();...
§ 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...
A partial mitigation of the symbol for the prophet's sake. The dung of domestic animals was often used as fuel, and does not seem to have defiled the food cooked upon it. Though the symbol was modifie...
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
COW’S DUNG. — In the scarcity of fuel in the East, cow’s dung and especially camel’s dung, is dried, and becomes the common fuel....
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֔י רְאֵ֗ה נָתַ֤תִּֽי לְךָ֙ אֶ
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...
_Neats, or "oxen;" boum. Protestants, "cow's dung." (Haydock) --- God allows him to bake his bread under such ashes. (Calmet) --- So great is his condescension towards his friends! (Calmet)_...
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...
THEN HE SAID TO ME,.... The Lord hearkened to the prophet's prayer and argument, and makes some abatement and alteration in the charge he gave him: LO, I HAVE GIVEN THEE COW'S DUNG FOR MAN'S DUNG: th...
Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. Ver. 15. Lo, I have given thee cow's dung.] This was some mitigation. Something God...
_Then said I, Ah, Lord God_, &c. He deprecates this, and entreats it may not be enjoined him. _Behold, my soul hath not been polluted_ I have always carefully observed the distinction between meats cl...
THE SYMBOLS OF THE FAMINE...
Then He said unto me, in yielding the point for the sake of the prophet's scruples, LO, I HAVE GIVEN THEE COW'S DUNG FOR MAN'S DUNG, a fuel still used very extensively in the Orient, AND THOU SHALT PR...
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....
So soon as he prayed God answered, and condescends to Ezekiel that he should use what was less abominable than man's dung; but it was not granted to the Jews, who in the siege at Jerusalem did much wo...
Ezekiel 4:15 said H559 (H8799) See H7200 (H8798) giving H5414 (H8804) cow H1241 dung H6832 ...
‘Then he said, “I have given you cow's dung for man's excrement, and you shall prepare bread on it.” God allowed him to use cow dung instead of man's excrement. Cow dung was a recognised fuel used by...
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...
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