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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:9

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches ,.... The first of these was commonly used to make bread of; in case of want and poverty, barley was used; but, for the rest, they were for cattle, and never used for the food of men but in a time of great scarcity; wherefore this was designed to denote the famine that should attend the siege of Jerusalem; see 2 Kings 25:3 ; and put them in one vessel ; that is, the flour of them, when ground,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:10

And thy meat which thou shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day ,.... To eat bread by weight was a sign of a grievous famine; see Leviticus 26:26 ; a shekel, according to Josephus F9 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 8. sect. 2. , weighed four Attic drachms, or half an ounce, wherefore twenty shekels weighed ten ounces; so that the bread the prophet had to eat was but ten ounces a day: from time to time shall thou eat it ; at the certain time of eating, or but once a day; from a set... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:11

Thou shall drink also water by measure ,.... Not wine, but water; and this not as much as he would, but a certain measure; which shows great want of it, and expresses a very distressed condition see Lamentations 5:4 ; the sixth part of an hin ; a hin held twelve logs, or seventy two egg shells, or about three quarts of our measure; and the sixth part of one were two logs, or twelve egg shells, and about a pint of our measure; so that it was but a pint of water a day that the prophet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:12

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes ,.... That is, the bread made of wheat, barley, beans, lentiles, millet, and fitches, was to be made in the form of barley cakes, and to be baked as they; not in an oven, but under ashes; and these ashes not of wood, or straw, or turf, but as follows: and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of men, in their sight : the prophet was to take human dung, and dry it, and then cover the cakes or loaves of his mixed bread with it, and burn it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:13

And the Lord said, even thus shall the children of Israel ,.... Not the ten tribes only, or those who were among the other two, but all the Jews in captivity: eat the defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them ; so called, not because mixed, but baked in the above manner; which was a symbol of the defilements which they should contract upon various accounts, by dwelling among the Gentiles; so that this foretells their captivity; their pollution among the nations of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:1

Take thee a tile - A tile, such as we use in covering houses, will give us but a very inadequate notion of those used anciently; and also appear very insufficient for the figures which the prophet was commanded to pourtray on it. A brick is most undoubtedly meant; yet, even the larger dimensions here, as to thickness, will not help us through the difficulty, unless we have recourse to the ancients, who have spoken of the dimensions of the bricks commonly used in building. Palladius, De Re... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:2

Battering rams - כרים carim . This is the earliest account we have of this military engine. It was a long beam with a head of brass, like the head and horns of a ram, whence its name. It was hung by chains or ropes, between two beams, or three legs, so that it could admit of being drawn backward and forward some yards. Several stout men, by means of ropes, pulled it as far back as it could go, and then, suddenly letting it loose, it struck with great force against the wall which it was... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:3

Take thou unto thee an iron pan - מחבת machabath , a flat plate or slice, as the margin properly renders it: such as are used in some countries to bake bread on, called a griddle or girdle, being suspended above the fire, and kept in a proper degree of heat for the purpose. A plate like this, stuck perpendicularly in the earth, would show the nature of a wall much better than any pan could do. The Chaldeans threw such a wall round Jerusalem, to prevent the besieged from receiving any... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:4

Lie thou also upon thy left side - It appears that all that is mentioned here and in the following verses was done, not in idea, but in fact. The prophet lay down on his left side upon a couch to which he was chained, Ezekiel 4:6 , for three hundred and ninety days; and afterwards he lay in the same manner, upon his right side, for forty days. And thus was signified the state of the Jews, and the punishment that was coming upon them. The prophet himself represents the Jews. His lying,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:6

Forty days - Reckon, says Archbishop Newcome, 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 practiced in the kingdom of Judah. Forty days may have been employed in spoiling and desolating the city and the temple. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:6

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