Ezekiel 4:4

lay = set, or place. Hebrew sum. See note on Ezekiel 4:1 .

according to the number , &c. Reference to Pentateuch, (Numbers 14:34 ). This is no evidence that in prophetic scriptures there is a "year = day "theory. These exceptions prove the opposite rule. In all of them "day" means "day", and "year" means "year".

bear their iniquity . A technical expression belonging to the Pentateuch - to endure the punishment due to iniquity, or sin. See Exodus 28:38 , Exo 28:93 .Leviticus 5:1 , Leviticus 5:17 ; Leviticus 7:18 ; Leviticus 10:17 ; Leviticus 16:22 ; Leviticus 17:16 ; Leviticus 19:16 ; Leviticus 20:17 , Leviticus 20:19 , Leviticus 20:20 (sin); Leviticus 22:9 (sin), Leviticus 22:16 ; Leviticus 24:15 (sin). Numbers 5:31 ; Numbers 9:13 (sin); 14, 33 (whoredoms), 34; Ezekiel 18:1 , Ezekiel 18:1 , Ezekiel 18:22 (sin), 23, 32 (sin); Ezekiel 30:15 . Outside the Pentateuch, only in Ezekiel 4:4 , Ezekiel 4:5 , Ezekiel 4:6 ; Ezekiel 16:54 (shame); Ezekiel 18:19 , Ezekiel 18:20 , Ezekiel 18:20 ; Ezekiel 23:49 (sin); Ezekiel 32:24 (shame), 25 (shame), 30 (shame); Ezekiel 44:10 , Ezekiel 44:12 ; and in Isaiah 53:4 , Isaiah 53:11 , Isaiah 53:12 , where the verb is sabal (not nasa, as in Pentateuch), and Lamentations 5:7 .

iniquity . Hebrew. `avon. App-44 . Put by Figure of speech metonymy (of Cause), App-6 , for the punishment brought about in consequence of it.