Verse 9
9. Fitches R.V., “spelt.” “Bread was usually made of wheat; the addition of the other coarser materials, and their mixture, indicate the straits to which men will be reduced in the siege and perhaps after the fall of the city.” Davidson. “The outcome of this mixture would be a coarse, unpalatable bread, not unlike that to which the population of Paris was reduced in the siege of 1870-71.” Plumptre.
Three hundred and ninety days LXX., one hundred and ninety days. That is, all the time the prophet lies on his side before the besieged city (Ezekiel 4:5).
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