Read & Study the Bible Online - Bible Portal
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:14

Abominable flesh - Flesh that had become corrupt and foul by overkeeping. Compare Leviticus 19:7. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 4:14-15

Ezekiel 4:14-15. 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 clean and unclean: I beseech thee, command me not now to eat any thing so contrary to my former practice. Neither came their abominable flesh into my mouth The Hebrew word, פגול , abominable, is used of such meats as were forbidden by the law, as the learned reader may see,... 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 4:14

Lord GOD . Hebrew. Adonai Jehovah . See App-4 . soul . Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 . that which dieth of itself . Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 22:31 .Leviticus 11:39 , Leviticus 11:40 ; Leviticus 17:5 ). App-92 . abominable flesh . Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 7:18 ; Leviticus 19:7 ). Elsewhere, only in Isaiah 65:3 . App-92 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 4:15

Lo . Figure of speech Aster's. App-6 . given . Same word as "appointed", Ezekiel 4:6 . therewith : or., thereupon. Compare Ezekiel 4:12 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 4:14

Ezekiel 4:14. Abominable flesh— This probably means whatever was unclean and particularly forbidden by the Mosaic law. See Leviticus 7:18; Leviticus 19:7. Isaiah 65:4. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Whether the transactions mentioned in this chapter were done in reality or in vision only is disputed (see the Critical Annotations). It is contended by some against the reality, that the position, without a miracle, could not be kept so long, and that the prophet is spoken of as sitting in his house before the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:14

14. Ezekiel, as a priest, had been accustomed to the strictest abstinence from everything legally impure. Peter felt the same scruple at a similar command ( :-; compare Isaiah 65:4). Positive precepts, being dependent on a particular command can be set aside at the will of the divine ruler; but moral precepts are everlasting in their obligation because God cannot be inconsistent with His unchanging moral nature. abominable flesh—literally, "flesh that stank from putridity." Flesh of animals... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:15

15. cow's dung—a mitigation of the former order (Ezekiel 4:12); no longer "the dung of man"; still the bread so baked is "defiled," to imply that, whatever partial abatement there might be for the prophet's sake, the main decree of God, as to the pollution of Israel by exile among Gentiles, is unalterable. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 4:9-17

The food 4:9-17This second dramatization took place while Ezekiel was acting out the first 390 days of the siege of Jerusalem with the brick and the plate (Ezekiel 4:1-8). Whereas the main drama pictured the siege as a judgment from God, this aspect of it stressed the severe conditions that would exist in the city during the siege. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 4:12-15

Ezekiel was to bake his food over a fire made with human excrement, as the Jews under siege in Jerusalem would have to do. The uncleanness of their food did not represent the type of food they would have to eat but the fact that they would have to eat their food among defiled people (in captivity, Ezekiel 4:13). The prophet complained that he had never eaten unclean food (cf. Ezekiel 44:31; Leviticus 22:8; Deuteronomy 12:15-19; Deuteronomy 14:21; Deuteronomy 23:9-14), so the Lord graciously... read more

Group of Brands