‏ Ezekiel 4:1-8

take Ezek 5:1-17, Ezek 12:3-16; 1Sam 15:27-28; 1Kgs 11:30-31; Isa 20:2-4; Jer 13:1-14, Jer 18:2-12, Jer 19:1-15, Jer 25:15-38, Jer 27:2-22; Hos 1:2-9, Hos 3:1-5; Hos 12:10

a tile μαπδ H3843, levainah generally denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps, however, it may here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57.

even Jer 6:6, Jer 32:31; Amos 3:2

lay Jer 39:1-2, Jer 52:4; Luke 19:42-44

battering rams or, chief leaders, Ezek 21:22

an iron pan or, a flat plate, or slice, Lev 2:5

This Ezek 12:6, Ezek 12:11, Ezek 24:24-27; Isa 8:18, Isa 20:3; Luke 2:34; Heb 2:4

upon Ezek 4:5, Ezek 4:8

and lay 2Kgs 17:21-23

thou shalt bear Lev 10:17, Lev 16:22; Num 14:34, Num 18:1; Isa 53:11-12; Matt 8:17; Heb 9:28; 1Pet 2:24

I have Isa 53:6

three This number of years will take us back from the year in which Judea was finally desolated by Nebuzar-adan, bc 584, to the establishment of idolatry in Israel by Jeroboam, bc 975. "Beginning from 1Kgs 12:33. Ending Jer 52:30."

forty days This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, bc 624, to the same final desolation of the land. Some think that the period of 390 days also predicts the duration of the siege of the Babylonians (Ezek 4:9), deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days, when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians (2Kgs 25:1-4; Jer 37:5); and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from 2Kgs 23:3, 2Kgs 23:23. Ending Jer 52:30."

each day for a year Heb. a day for a year, a day for a year, Num 14:34; Dan 9:24-26, Dan 12:11-12; Rev 9:15, Rev 11:2-3, Rev 12:14, Rev 13:5

set Ezek 4:3, Ezek 6:2

and thine Isa 52:10

I will Ezek 3:25

from one side to another Heb. from thy side to thy side

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