Ezekiel 5:2 - Exposition

Thou shalt burn with fire, etc. The symbolism receives its interpretation in Ezekiel 5:12 . A third part of the people (we need not expect numerical exactness) was to perish in the city of pestilence and famine, another to fall by the sword in their attempts to escape, yet another third was to be scattered to the far off land of their exile, and even there the sword was to follow them. The words, in the midst of the city, and the days of the siege , find their most natural explanation in Ezekiel 4:1 , Ezekiel 4:5 , Ezekiel 4:6 .