エゼキエル書 4:11 JC

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 4:9-17

Scanty means of subsistence symbolising punishment (chap. Ezekiel 4:9-17)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 4:9. The several sorts of vegetable food—the richest and the poorest in nutritive elements—being placed “in one vessel,” signified that all classes of the population would be obliged to gather every particle they could, and then find it difficult to obtain sufficient provisions. The “bread” from such a mixture was to be made by Ezekiel in a quantity corresponding to “the number of the days that... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 4:1-17

Chapter 4Now thou also, Son of man, take a tile ( Ezekiel 4:1 ),Now this is a brick, and it's about twelve inches by fourteen inches. The archeologists have uncovered thousands of these bricks there in the area of Babylon. This is what they wrote their records on. And their libraries were full of these tiles or bricks. They were a clay brick and they would write, they would scratch in these clay bricks. And so the Lord is telling him to take one of these drawing boards, one of these drawing... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 4:1-17

Ezekiel 4:1 . Son of man, take thee a tile. It is probable that the prophet took a sheet of plastic clay proper for his purpose; for the Hebrew root בנה banah, is generally applied to construction in various kinds of architecture. On this tablet of clay he made a model of Jerusalem, and so well defined that all the jews would know it. Against this city he traced the lines of the besieging army, and against the towers of Jerusalem he built his pugnacula, as the Greek seems to import,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezekiel 4:9-17

Ezekiel 4:9-17Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread.Conformity of punishment to sinThey had sinned in excess, and God would take away their plenty. Hosea 13:6, “According to their pasture, so were they filled”; they had full pastures, fed largely, exalted their hearts, and thought they should never want; they forgot God in their fulness, and He made them to remember Him in a famine. Fulness of bread was the sin of Sodom, and the sin of Jerusalem also. God brake the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 4:11

Eze 4:11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. Ver. 11. From time to time shalt thou drink, ] i.e., At thy set times, in stata tempera comparcito, make no waste: the least drop is precious. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 4:11

shalt drink: Ezekiel 4:16, Isaiah 5:13, John 3:34 Reciprocal: Exodus 29:40 - hin Leviticus 23:13 - the fourth read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ezekiel 4:11

Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.The sixth part — About six ounces. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:9-17

THE PROPHET’S FOOD SYMBOLIZING THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE IN EXILE, Ezekiel 4:9-17. The prophet is commanded to take of all kinds of grain and make the mixture into cakes, which he shall bake with dung, and of which he shall eat very sparingly. This is to show the impoverished condition of the people in the siege (Ezekiel 4:16-17), and also their pollution during the exile (Ezekiel 4:13). read more