Ezekiel 4:9-17
wheat Ezek 4:13, Ezek 4:16 millet Dochan in Arabic, dokhn the holcus dochna of Forskal, is a kind of millet, of considerable use as a food; the cultivation of which is described by Browne. fitches or, spelt, Kussemim is doubtless ζεα, or spelt, as Aquila and Symmachus render here; and so LXX and Theodotion, ολυρα. In times of scarcity it is customary to mix several kinds of coarser grains with the finer, to make it last the longer. three Ezek 4:5 Ezek 4:16, Ezek 14:13; Lev 26:26; Deut 28:51-68; Isa 3:1 shalt drink Ezek 4:16; Isa 5:13; John 3:34 cakes a "round" thing, Gen 18:6 Dan 1:8; Hos 9:3-4 Ah Ezek 9:8, Ezek 20:49; Jer 1:6 my soul Acts 10:14 have I Exod 22:31; Lev 11:39-40, Lev 17:15 abominable Lev 19:7; Deut 14:3; Isa 65:4, Isa 66:17 cow's dung Dried cow-dung is a common fuel in the East, as it is in many parts of England, to the present day; but the prophet was ordered to prepare his bread with human ordure, to shew the extreme degree of wretchedness to which the besieged should be exposed, as they would be obliged literally to use it, from not being able to leave the city to collect other fuel. Ezek 4:15 I will Ezek 5:16, Ezek 14:13; Lev 26:26; Ps 105:16; Isa 3:1 eat The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure. Ezek 4:10-11, Ezek 12:18-19; Ps 60:3; Lam 1:11, Lam 4:9-10, Lam 5:9 and consume Ezek 24:23; Lev 26:39
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