以西結書 4:9-12 Rcuvts
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 4:1-17
The siege of Jerusalem and the sufferings of the people symbolized. "Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem," etc. This chapter presents difficulties to the student. There is the question whether it is to be understood literally or metaphorically; or, more correctly, whether the things here set forth were really done or were only visional. The commands given in Ezekiel 4:1-3 might have been literally executed; but the... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 4:9
Take thou also unto thee, etc. The act implies, as I have said, that there were exceptions to the generally immovable attitude. The symbolism seems to have a twofold meaning. We can scarcely exclude a reference to the famine which accompanied the siege. On the other hand, one special feature of it is distinctly referred, not to the siege, but to the exile ( Ezekiel 4:13 ). Starting with the former, the prophet is told to make bread, not of wheat , the common food of the wealthier class (... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 4:9-17
A symbolic famine. The moral intention for which God imposed this series of painful privations on his prophet was this, viz. to convince the people that their expectation of a speedy return to Jerusalem was vain and futile. Their honoured city, around which God had so long thrown the shield of his protection, could not (so they thought) long remain in the power of the heathen. To explode this bubble delusion, God represented before their eyes the rigours of a military siege, the... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 4:10
Thy meat , etc.; better, food, here and elsewhere. Coarse as the food was, the people would have but scanty rations of it. Men were not, as usual, to measure the corn, but to weigh the bread (Le 26:26). Taking the shekel at about 220 grains, the twenty shekels would be about 10 or 12 ounces. The common allowance in England for prison or pauper dietaries gives, I believe from 24 to 32 ounces, Besides other food. And this was to be taken, not as hunger prompted, but at the appointed hour.... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 4:11
The sixth, part of an hin, etc. According to the varying accounts of the "hin" given by Jewish writers, this would give from 6 to 9 of a pint. And this was, like the food, to be doled out once a day. Possibly "the bread of affliction and the water of affliction," in 1 Kings 22:27 and Isaiah 30:20 , contains a reference to the quantity as well as the quality of a prison dietary as thus described. Isaiah's words may refer to the siege of Sennacherib, as Ezekiel's do to the siege of... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 4:12
Thou shall bake it with dung , etc. The process of baking in ashes was as old as the time of Abraham ( Genesis 18:6 ), and continues in Arabia and Syria to the present day. The kneaded dough was rolled into thin flat cakes, and they were placed upon, or hung over, the hot wood embers of the hearth or oven. But in a besieged city the supply of wood for fuel soon fails. The first resource is found, as still often happens in the East, in using the dried dung of camels or of cattle. Before... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:9
Two things are prefigured in the remainder of this chapter,(1) the hardships of exile,(2) the straitness of a siege.To the people of Israel, separated from the rest of the nations as holy, it was a leading feature in the calamities of their exile that they must be mixed up with other nations, and eat of their food, which to the Jews was a defilement (compare Ezekiel 4:13; Amos 7:17; Daniel 1:8.)Fitches - A species of wheat with shorn ears.In one vessel - To mix all these varied seeds was an... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:10
meat - A general term for food, which in this case consists of grain. Instead of measuring, it was necessary in extreme scarcity to weigh it Leviticus 26:26; Revelation 6:6.Twenty shekels a day - The shekel contained about 220 grains, so that 20 shekels would be about 56 of a pound.From time to time - Thou shalt receive and eat it at the appointed interval of a day. read more
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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:12
Verse 12 This vision properly belongs to the ten tribes, and, for this reason, I have said that God’s vengeance is not to be considered as to the siege of the city alone, but to be extended longer. After the Prophet had spoken of the siege of Jerusalem, he adds, that their reward was prepared for the children of Israel, because a just God was the avenger of each people. As, therefore, he punished the remnant who as yet remained at Jerusalem, so he avenged the wickedness of the ten tribes in... read more