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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

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 4:8

Whoever were the persons that laid bonds on Ezekiel, in Ezekiel 3:25, here it is plain that the Lord doth it. If the prophet represent the besieged citizens who must be captives in bonds, then it is likely these bonds were visible and material, that they might be a teaching sign and admonition, that as they saw the prophet in them, so certainly he should see that come to pass which was signified by them. If he represent the Chaldeans, as those who were by Divine power as fast bound to this... 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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 4:8

Eze 4:8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. Ver. 8. And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee. ] To show that he was unchangeably resolved to ruin Judah, a whom the prophet here personateth. Some make the sense to be this, I will give thee strength to hold out in that thy long lying on one side till the city be taken. Of a nobleman of Louvain it is told, that he lay sixteen years in one... read more

Samuel Bagster