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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 4:1-17

The second division of the Book contains the messages of the prophet concerning the reprobation of the chosen nation. These fall into three parts. In the first, by symbolism and speech he described the results of reprobation. In the second he declared its reason. In the last he proclaimed its righteousness. The results of reprobation were first symbolically set forth in four signs. These were immediately followed by general denunciations. Finally, the cause of the coming judgment and its... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:12

“And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you will bake it in their sight with excrement that comes out of a man.” ‘Barley cakes’ indicates the poor man’s food. They were, as described earlier, made up of a mixture of ingredients. It was to be ‘baked in their sight’, possibly on heated stones or an iron plate. The onlookers would be watching someone surviving ‘under siege’. The use of human excrement for fuel would appal not only Ezekiel but also the onlookers, yet in times of siege it would... read more

Arthur Peake

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

Ezekiel 4:9-Esther : . (C) The Hardships of the Exiles and the Besieged.— The horrors of famine, consequent upon the siege, are suggested by the symbolical action of this section, in which the prophet’ s food and drink are to be carefully measured out— about half a pound of food a day and a little over a pint of water. But blended with the thought of the scarcity of food during the siege is the thought of the uncleanness of the food eaten during the exile. According to Hebrew ideas, any food... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 4:12

As barley cakes: these were delicacies with them when they could temper and make them right, but now these pitiful things should be to these half-starved bodies as delicates, Or rather, because they were greedy, and could not stay till they were baked. Or, lest any should take it from them. Or, because they never had enough to make a loaf with, they eat them as barley cakes. With dung; there would be no wood left for such necessary uses, nor yet dung of other creatures, they would be all... read more

Joseph Exell

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 4:12

Eze 4:12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. Ver. 12. And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes. ] Baked on coals made of homely fuel, man’s dung burnt. a And thou shalt bake it with dung. ] For want of wood. Lam 5:4 To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Pro 27:7 In their sight. ] This, then, was more than a vision. a Panem exhibuit Papa non ad purum ignem, sed ad oleta Quaestionariorum, Sorbonistarum, et... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 4:12

cakes: a "round" thing, Genesis 18:6 Reciprocal: Ezekiel 21:6 - before read more