Hawker's Poor man's commentary
Ezekiel 4:1
CONTENTS
In this Chapter the Prophet is engaged to instruct the people; and which he doth under the similitude of a siege, to show the state of their captivity.
CONTENTS
In this Chapter the Prophet is engaged to instruct the people; and which he doth under the similitude of a siege, to show the state of their captivity.
CHAPTER IV _Ezekiel delineates Jerusalem, and lays siege to it, as a type_ _of the manner in which the Chaldean army should surround that_ _city_, 1-3. _The prophet commanded to lie on his left si...
A TILE - Rather, a brick. Sun-dried or kiln-burned bricks were from very early times used for building walls throughout the plain of Mesopotamia. The bricks of Nineveh and Babylon are sometimes stampe...
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...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. TILE: OR, BRICK. A Babylonian brick, as used for inscription, was about 14 inches by 12. LAY. give, or take, as in verses: Ezekiel 4:1; Ezekiel 4:2;...
_take thee a tile_ or, brick. The brick would be such as those found in the ruins of the cities of Mesopotamia, covered with figures and inscriptions, engraved on them when still moist. Libraries of s...
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...
TAKE THEE A TILE— _A slate._ See Jeremiah 1:11; Jeremiah 13:4. Maimonides, not attending to the primitive mode of information made use of by Ezekiel here, by Jeremiah in the passages referred to, and...
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...
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: TAKE THEE A TILE - a sun-dried brick, such as are found in Babylon, covered with cun...
A SHARP KNIFE.. A BARBER'S RAZOR] RV 'a sharp sword, as a barber's razor.' _For_ THEREOF] RY 'therefrom.' The clause thus introduced is obscure. The meaning seems to be that the punishment of Jerusale...
§ 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
IV. (1) he incident connected with Zacchæus (Luke 19:1) indicates either that he had been on the spot as an inquirer, or had sought for local sources of information. The assumption that he recorded a...
וְ אַתָּ֤ה בֶן ־אָדָם֙ קַח ־לְךָ֣ לְבֵנָ֔ה
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...
_Tile, very large. (Calmet) --- Those of Italy were two feet large and one broad. (Pallad.) --- This might be soft clay; (Grotius; Menochius) or the siege might be marked out upon it with chalk or a s...
Here God begins to speak more openly by means of his servant, and not to speak only, but to signify by an outward symbol what he wishes to be uttered by his mouth. Hence he orders the Prophet _to _pai...
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 ALSO, SON OF MAN, TAKE THEE A TILE,.... Or "brick" z. The Targum renders it, a "stone"; but a tile or brick, especially one that is not dried and burned, but green, is more fit to cut in it the f...
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, [even] Jerusalem: Ver. 1. _Thou also, son of man._] Hitherto we have had the preface: followeth now the...
_Take a tile, &c., and lay it before thee_ The prophets often foreshowed impending judgments by significant emblems, which usually strike more powerfully than words. So Jeremiah was commanded to go do...
THE SYMBOL OF THE SIEGE...
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, very likely a Babylonian brick, a foot square and about five inches thick, AND LAY IT BEFORE THEE, while the clay was still soft, AND PORTRAY UPON IT THE CITY,...
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...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 4 The prophet is directed to represent a mock siege of Jerusalem for a sign to the Jews, EZEKIEL 4:1; and to lie before it in one posture for a set number of days, in order to denote t...
Ezekiel 4:1 son H1121 man H120 take H3947 (H8798) tablet H3843 lay H5414 (H8804) before H6440 portray...
“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...
TAKE The symbolic actions during the prophet's dumbness were testimonies to the past wickedness and chastisement of the house of Israel (the whole nation), and prophetic of a coming siege. They there...
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...
1 Kings 11:30; 1 Kings 11:31; 1 Samuel 15:27; 1 Samuel 15:28; Amos 3:2
Portray — Draw a map of Jerusalem....