エゼキエル書 4:5-6 JCB

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:5

According to the number of the days - Or, “to be to thee as a number of days (even as)” etc. Compare the margin reference. Some conceive that these “days” were the years during which Israel and Judah sinned, and date in the case of Israel from Jeroboam’s rebellion to the time at which Ezekiel wrote (circa 390 years); and in the case of Judah from Josiah’s reformation. But it seems more in accordance with the other “signs,” to suppose that they represent not that which had been, but that which... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 4:4-6

Ezekiel 4:4-6. Lie thou also, &c. “In his own house, Ezekiel 3:24. This was to be his posture, not without intermission, but in the exercise of his prophetical office, during that part of each day, when the people were likely to observe his conduct.” Bishop Newcome. Upon thy left side The left side, as being the least respectable, signified Israel, or the ten tribes: the right side, as being most honoured, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin; or, as it is generally expressed, the kingdom... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:1-17

4:1-7:27 JUDGMENT AGAINST JERUSALEMSiege and exile (4:1-17)Prophets often acted their messages instead of, or in addition to, speaking them. Ezekiel drew a rough picture of Jerusalem on a brick, placed the brick on the ground, then with sticks, stones, clay and markings in the sand, he modelled a siege of the city. The message to the exiles was that they had no chance of an early return to Jerusalem. On the contrary, Jerusalem could expect further attack. God would not defend the city; rather... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 4:5

three hundred and ninety days. These were to be literal "days" to Ezekiel, and were to represent 390 literal "years". The date of the command is not material to the understanding of this prophecy. The meaning of the expression "bear their iniquity" (see note on Ezekiel 4:4 ) determines the interpretation as referring to the duration of the punishment, and not to the period of the iniquity which brought it down. The 390 days stand for 390 years and the 40 days for 40 years, the duration of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 4:6

again = a second time, showing that they are not necessarily consecutive or continuous, but are conterminous, though not commencing at the same time. forty days. See note on Ezekiel 4:4 . a ppointed = given. Some word as "lay", verses: Ezekiel 4:1 , Ezekiel 4:2 , Ezekiel 4:5 , Ezekiel 4:8 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 4:5

Ezekiel 4:5.— Three hundred and ninety days] This number of years, see Eze 4:6 will take us back, with sufficient exactness, from the year in which Jerusalem was sacked by Nebuchadrezzar to the first year of Jeroboam's reign, when national idolatry began in Israel. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 4:6

Ezekiel 4:6. Forty days— Reckon near fifteen years and six months in the reign of Manasseh, two years in that of Amon, three months in that of Jehoahaz, eleven years in that of Jehoiakim, three months and ten days in that of Jehoiachin, and eleven years in that of Zedekiah; and there arises a period of forty years, during which gross idolatry was practised in the kingdom of Judah. Manasseh's reformation, 2Ch 33:13 is supposed to have lasted during the remainder of his reign; and Josiah was... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:5

5. three hundred and ninety days—The three hundred ninety years of punishment appointed for Israel, and forty for Judah, cannot refer to the siege of Jerusalem. That siege is referred to in Ezekiel 4:1-3, and in a sense restricted to the literal siege, but comprehending the whole train of punishment to be inflicted for their sin; therefore we read here merely of its sore pressure, not of its result. The sum of three hundred ninety and forty years is four hundred thirty, a period famous in the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:6

6. each day for a year—literally, "a day for a year, a day for a year." Twice repeated, to mark more distinctly the reference to :-. The picturing of the future under the image of the past, wherein the meaning was far from lying on the surface, was intended to arouse to a less superficial mode of thinking, just as the partial veiling of truth in Jesus' parables was designed to stimulate inquiry; also to remind men that God's dealings in the past are a key to the future, for He moves on the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 4:4-5

Then Ezekiel was to recline in public on his left side for 390 days. This was to represent the number of years that Israel would have to bear punishment for her sins. Evidently when Ezekiel lay on his left side he faced north, the Northern Kingdom. This meant that his body would have been pointing west, toward Jerusalem. read more