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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:4-8

Ezekiel 4:4-Ruth : . (B) The Exile: its Duration.— The next action is more curious. Ezekiel is represented as lying upon his side for 190 days (as LXX correctly reads in Ezekiel 4:5) to symbolise the years of punishment in exile— a year for a day— undergone by Israel and Judah for their sins. As the restoration of these two kingdoms is expected to occur simultaneously ( Ezekiel 37:16 ff.) we must assume that, as he lies for forty days upon his right side to represent Judah ( i.e. the ... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 4:7

Therefore, Heb. And, while thou liest on thy side, thou shalt fix thy countenance on the portrait of besieged Jerusalem, with angry and menacing looks. Jerusalem; not which was in the land of Judah, but that described in the tile, the emblem of the other. Thine arm, thy right arm, the stronger and more ready to act, shall be uncovered, naked and stretched out, as being ready to strike and slay. Thou shalt prophesy against it: this very emblem doth threaten, which is a visional prediction, and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 4:1-8

3. FIRST INSTRUCTIONS BY SIGNS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION(Chaps. Ezekiel 4:1 to Ezekiel 5:17).EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel is ordered to carry out certain specified processes. Their purport is expressed by the words (Ezekiel 4:3), “This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.” The use of such signs is partly to be accounted for by the circumstances of a prophet whose dwelling was in a country in which symbolical figures were striking and not unusual; partly by the psychological fact that his actings... 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 4:1-8

Ezekiel 4:1-8Take thee a tile. The ministry of symbolismIn this chapter there begins a series of symbols utterly impossible of modern interpretation. This ministry of symbolism has still a place in all progressive civilisation. Every age, of course, necessitates its own emblems and types, its own apocalypse of wonders and signs, but the meaning of the whole is that God has yet something to be revealed which cannot at the moment be expressed in plain language. If we could see into the inner... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 4:7

Eze 4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. Ver. 7. Set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem. ] Steel thy countenance, be stern and resolute, to show that the Chaldees should be so. Thus this prophet proceedeth to write, as it were, in hieroglyphics, and to preach in emblems. And thine arm shall be uncovered, ] i.e., Thou shalt do thy work bodily; which, when soldiers and servants set... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 4:7

set: Ezekiel 4:3, Ezekiel 6:2 and thine: Isaiah 52:10 Reciprocal: Ezekiel 20:46 - set Ezekiel 21:2 - set Daniel 11:17 - set read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ezekiel 4:7

Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.Set — While thou liest on thy side thou shalt fix thy countenance on the portrait of besieged Jerusalem.Uncovered — Naked and stretched out as being ready to strike. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 4:7

7. The foregoing calculation makes more dramatic the continuance of the siege. That siege is sure to be successful. The uncovered arm of the prophet represents that the arm of Jehovah is “made bare” and ready for action (Psalms 98:1; Isaiah 52:10). The prophecy has gone forth, and not only has it foretold the captivity of the city, but it has even reckoned the years in which the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be held in captivity. Nothing could be more startling than the sight of the silent... read more