Eze 4-5, Eze 12, 24:3-12 | TSK | STEP | Under the type of a siege is shewn the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity. By the provision of the siege, is shewn the hardness of the famine. take. a tile.[Lebêbnâh ,] {levainah,} generally denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps, however, it may here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57. even.

Ezekiel 4

1 Under the type of a siege is shewn the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity.

9 By the provision of the siege, is shewn the hardness of the famine.

take.

5:1-17; 12:3-16; 1Sa 15:27,28; 1Ki 11:30,31; Isa 20:2-4

Jer 13:1-14; 18:2-12; 19:1-15; 25:15-38; 27:2-22; Ho 1:2-9; 3:1-5

a tile.[Lebêbnâh ,] {levainah,} generally denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps, however, it may here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57.

even.

Jer 6:6; 32:31; Am 3:2

lay.

Jer 39:1,2; 52:4; Lu 19:42-44

battering rams. or, chief leaders.

21:22

an iron pan. or, a flat plate, or slice.

Le 2:5

This.

12:6,11; 24:24-27; Isa 8:18; 20:3; Lu 2:34; Heb 2:4

upon.

5,8

and lay.

2Ki 17:21-23

thou shalt bear.

Le 10:17; 16:22; Nu 14:34; 18:1; Isa 53:11,12; Mt 8:17; Heb 9:28

1Pe 2:24

I have.

Isa 53:6

three.This number of years will take us back from the year in which Judea was finally desolated by Nebuzar-adan, B.C. 584, to the establishment of idolatry in Israel by Jeroboam, B.C. 975. "Beginning from 1 Ki 12:33. Ending Jer 52:30."

forty days.This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, B.C. 624, to the same final desolation of the land. Some think that the period of 390 days also predicts the duration of the siege of the Babylonians, (ver. 9,) deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days, when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians (2 Ki 25:1-4; Jer 37:5;) and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from 2 Ki 23:3, 23. Ending Jer 52:30."

each day for a year. Heb. a day for a year, a day for ayear.

Nu 14:34; Da 9:24-26; 12:11,12; Re 9:15; 11:2,3; 12:14; 13:5

set.

3; 6:2

and thine.

Isa 52:10

I will.

3:25

from one side to another. Heb. from thy side to thy side.

wheat.

13,16

millet.{Dochan,} in Arabic, {dokhn,} the {holcus dochna} of Forskal, is a kind of millet, of considerable use as a food; the cultivation of which is described by Browne.

fitches. or, spelt.{Kussemim} is doubtless [zea,] or spelt, as Aquila and Symmachus render here; and so LXX. and Theodotion, [olyra.] In times of scarcity it is customary to mix several kinds of coarser grains with the finer, to make it last the longer.

three.

16; 14:13; Le 26:26; De 28:51-68; Isa 3:1

shalt drink.

16; Isa 5:13; Joh 3:34

cake. a "round" thing.

Ge 18:6

Da 1:8; Ho 9:3,4

Ah.

9:8; 20:49; Jer 1:6

my soul.

Ac 10:14

have I.

Ex 22:31; Le 11:39,40; 17:15

abominable.

Le 19:7; De 14:3; Isa 65:4; 66:17

cow's dung.Dried cow-dung is a common fuel in the East, as it is in many parts of England, to the present day; but the prophet was ordered to prepare his bread with human ordure, to shew the extreme degree of wretchedness to which the besieged should be exposed, as they would be obliged literally to use it, from not being able to leave the city to collect other fuel.

I will.

5:16; 14:13; Le 26:26; Ps 105:16; Isa 3:1

eat.The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure.

10,11; 12:18,19; Ps 60:3; La 1:11; 4:9,10; 5:9

and consume.

24:23; Le 26:39

Ezekiel 5

1 Under the type of hair,

5 is shewn the judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion;

12 by famine, sword, and dispersion.

son.In this expressive emblem, the prophet represents the Jewish nation; his hair, the people; the razor, the Chaldeans; the cutting of the hair, the calamities and disgrace coming upon them; the balances, the exact distribution of the Divine judgments; the third part of the hair burnt, those destroyed in the city; the third part smitten with a knife, those slain in attempting to escape; the third part scattered to the winds, those who escaped to other countries; the few hairs in his skirt, those left with Gedaliah; and the burning of these, their destruction in Egypt.

take.

44:20; Le 21:5; Isa 7:20

then.

Da 5:27

shalt burn.

12; Jer 9:21,22; 15:2; 24:10; 38:2

the city.

4:1-8

I will draw.

12; 12:14; Le 26:33; Jer 9:16; Am 9:2,3

a few.

2Ki 25:12; Jer 39:10; 40:6; 52:16; Mt 7:14; Lu 13:23,24; 1Pe 4:18

skirts. Heb. wings.

take.

2Ki 25:25; Jer 41:1-44:30; 52:30

shall a fire.

Jer 4:4; 48:45

This.

4:1; Jer 6:6; Lu 22:19,20; 1Co 10:4

I have.

16:14; De 4:6; Mic 5:7; Mt 5:14

she hath.

16:47; De 32:15-21; 2Ki 17:8-20; Ps 106:20; Ro 1:23-25; 1Co 5:1

Jude 1:4

for they.

Ne 9:16,17; Ps 78:10; Jer 5:3; 8:5; 9:6; 11:10; Zec 7:11

neither have done.

11; 16:47,48,54; 2Ki 21:9-11; 2Ch 33:9; Jer 2:10,11

even I.

15:7; 21:3; 26:3; 28:22; 35:3; 39:1; Le 26:17-46; De 29:20

Jer 21:5,13; La 2:5; 3:3; Zec 14:2,3; Mt 22:7

in the.

25:2-6; 26:2; 29:6,7; 35:10-15; De 29:23-28; 1Ki 9:8,9; Jer 22:8,9

Jer 24:9; 50:7; La 2:15-17

that which.

La 4:6,9; Da 9:12; Am 3:2; Mt 24:21The sentence here passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, and the manner of expression makes it yet more so: the judgments are various, the threatenings of them varied, reiterated; so that one may well say, Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry?

the fathers.

Le 26:29; De 28:53-57,64; 2Ki 6:29; Isa 9:20; 49:26; Jer 19:9

La 2:20; 4:10

the whole.

2,12; 6:8; 12:14; 20:23; 22:15; 36:19; Le 26:33; De 4:27; 28:64

De 32:26; Ne 1:8; Ps 44:11; Jer 9:16; 44:12; 50:17; Am 9:9; Zec 2:6

Zec 7:14; Lu 21:24

as I live.

Nu 14:28-35; Ps 95:11; Am 8:7; Heb 6:13

thou hast.

8:5,6,16; 23:28; 44:7; 2Ki 21:4,7; 23:12; 2Ch 33:4,7; 36:14

Jer 7:9-11; 32:34

detestable.

7:20; 11:18,21; De 7:25,26; Jer 16:18; 44:4

will I.

29:15; Ps 107:39; Jer 10:24; *marg:

Ro 11:12

neither shall.

7:4,9; 8:18; 9:5,10; 24:14; De 29:20; La 2:21; Zec 11:6; Mal 3:17

Ro 8:32; 11:21; 2Pe 2:4,5

third part of.

2; 6:12; Jer 15:2; 21:9; Zec 13:7-9

and I will scatter.

2,10; 6:8; Jer 9:16; Zec 7:14

and I will draw.This was particularly fulfilled in the destruction of those who retired to Egypt; and has been remarkably verified in the many persecutions and miseries which the Jews have suffered at different times, in the various countries into which they are dispersed.

2; 12:14; Le 26:33; De 28:65; Jer 42:16,17,22; 43:10,11; 44:27

Am 9:4

shall mine.

6:12; 7:8; 13:15; 20:8,21; Jer 25:12; La 4:11,22; Da 9:2; 11:36

I will cause.

16:42,63; 21:17; 23:25; 24:13; Isa 1:21

I will be.

De 32:36; Isa 1:24; Zec 6:8

spoken.

6:10; 36:5,6; 38:18,19; Isa 9:7; 59:17

I will.

22:4; Le 26:31,32; De 28:37; 2Ch 7:20,21; Ne 2:17; Ps 74:3-10

Ps 79:1-4; Isa 64:10,11; Jer 19:8; 24:9,10; 42:18; La 1:4,8

La 2:15-17; 5:18; Mic 3:12

the nations.

an instruction.

De 29:24-28; 1Ki 9:7; Ps 79:4; Isa 26:9; Jer 22:8,9; 1Co 10:11

when.

25:17; Isa 66:15,16; Na 1:2

the evil.

De 32:23,24; Ps 7:13; 91:5-7; La 3:12

and will.

4:16; 14:13; Le 26:26; 2Ki 6:25; Isa 3:1

and evil.

14:15,21; 33:27; 34:25-28; Ex 23:29; Le 26:22; De 32:24; 2Ki 17:25

Jer 15:3

and pestilence.

12; 14:19; 38:22

and I.

6:12; 21:3; 23:47

I the.

13,15; 17:21,24; 21:32; 22:14; 26:14; 30:12; 37:14; Mt 24:35

Ezekiel 12

1 Under the type of Ezekiels's removing,

8 is shewn the captivity of Zedekiah.

17 Ezekiel's trembling shews the Jews' desolation.

21 The Jews' presumptuous proverb is reproved.

26 The speediness of the vision.

thou.

2:3,6-8; 3:9,26,27; 17:12; 24:3; 44:6; De 9:7,24; 31:27; Ps 78:40

Isa 1:23; 30:1,9; 65:2; Jer 4:17; 5:23; 9:1-6; Da 9:5-9; Ac 7:51,52

which.

De 29:4; Isa 6:9,10; 29:9-12; 42:19,20; Jer 5:21; Mt 13:13,14

Mr 4:12; 8:17,18; Lu 8:10; Joh 9:39-41; 12:40; Ac 28:26,27

Ro 11:7,8; 2Co 3:14; 4:3,4; Eph 4:18; 2Th 2:10,11

for.

2:5

prepare.

10-12; 4:1-17; Jer 13:1-11; 18:2-12; 19:1-15; 27:2

stuff. or, instruments.By stuff our translators meant furniture or goods, as the word frequently denotes in our early writers; but the original, {keley,} has not only this sense (as in ver. 4,) but is also used for any kind of utensils or instruments whatever; and here probably denotes carriages, or other means for removing goods. This was intended to signify that the captivity was at hand.

it may.

33:11; De 5:29; 32:29; Ps 81:13; Jer 18:11; 25:4-7; 26:3; 36:3,7

Lu 13:8,9,34; 20:13; 2Ti 2:25

at even.

12; 2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4; 52:7

they that go forth into. Heb. the goings forth of.

Dig thou. Heb. Dig for thee.This was to shew that Zedekiah should escape from the city through a breach in the wall.

2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:2-4

thou shalt.This intimated that Zedekiah should steal out of the city in the twilight, carrying on his shoulders some of his property, with his head covered, not only as in distress but to escape detection. These prophecies, which were accurately fulfilled, are supposed to have been delivered in the sixth year of Zedekiah, five years before the taking of Jerusalem.

cover.

1Sa 28:8; 2Sa 15:30; Job 24:17

for I.

11; 4:3; 24:24; Isa 8:18; 20:2-4

I did so.

2:8; 24:18; 37:7,10; Jer 32:8-12; Mt 21:6,7; Mr 14:16; Joh 2:5-8

Joh 15:14; Ac 26:19

I brought.

3-6

digged. Heb. digged for me.

the rebellious.

1-3; 2:5-8

What.

17:12; 20:49; 24:19

This.

2Ki 9:25; Isa 13:1; 14:28; Mal 1:1

prince.That is, Zedekiah king of Judah.

7:27; 17:13-21; 21:25-27; Jer 21:7; 24:8; 38:18

I am.

remove and go. Heb. by removing go.

Jer 15:2; 52:15,28-30

6; 2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4; 42:7

My net.This was to intimate, that though he escaped out of the city, the Chaldeans should overtake him, and carry him to Babylon. Jeremiah had predicted that his "eyes should see the eyes of the king of Babylon," and here Ezekiel foretold that he should not see Babylon, though he should die there; and Josephus says that he thought the two prophecies so inconsistent with each other, that he believed neither; yet both were exactly fulfilled, and the enigma of Ezekiel explained, when Zedekiah was brought to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah, where he had his eyes put out, and was then carried to Babylon, and there died.

17:16,20; 19:8,9; 32:3; Job 19:6; Ps 11:6; Isa 24:17,18; Jer 50:24

La 1:13; 3:47; 4:19,20; Ho 7:12; Lu 21:35

and I.

2Ki 25:5-7; Jer 34:3; 39:7; 52:8-11

I will scatter.

5:10-12; 17:21; 2Ki 25:4,5

I will draw.

5:2,12; 14:17,21; Le 26:33; Jer 42:16,22

16,20; 5:13; 6:7,14; 7:4; 11:10; 24:27; 25:11; 26:6; 28:26; 33:33

39:28; Eze 14:18; Ps 9:16

I will.

6:8-10; 14:22,23; Isa 1:9; 6:13; 10:22; 24:13; Jer 4:27; 30:11

Am 9:8,9; Mt 7:14; 24:22; Ro 11:4,5

a few men. Heb. men of number.

Ge 13:16; Isa 10:19; Ro 9:27

that they.

14:22,23; 36:31; Le 26:40,41; Jer 3:24,25; Da 9:5-12

and they.

De 29:24-28; 1Ki 9:6-9; Jer 22:8,9

4:16,17; 23:33; Le 26:26,36; De 28:48,65; Job 3:24; Ps 60:2,3

Ps 80:5; 102:4-9

with carefulness.

1Ki 17:10-12

that her.

6:6,7,14; 36:3; Isa 6:11; Jer 4:27; 9:10,11; 10:22; 18:16; 32:28

Jer 33:10,12; Mic 7:13; Zec 7:14

all that is therein. Heb. the fulness thereof.

Ps 24:1; 1Co 10:26,28

because.

7:23; Ge 6:11-13; Ps 107:34; Jer 6:7; Mic 3:10-12

15:6,8; Isa 3:26; 7:23,24; 24:3,12; 64:10,11; Jer 4:7,23-29

Jer 12:10-12; 16:9; 19:11; 24:8-10; 25:9; 34:22; La 5:18; Da 9:17

what.

18:2,3; Jer 23:33-40

The days.

27; 11:3; Isa 5:19; Jer 5:12,13; Am 6:3; 2Pe 3:3,4

I will.

18:3; Isa 28:22

The days.

25; 7:2,5-7,10-12; Joe 2:1; Zep 1:14; Mal 4:1; Mt 24:34

Jas 5:8,9

13:23; 1Ki 22:11-13,17; Pr 26:28; Jer 14:13-16; 23:14-29; La 2:14

Zec 13:2-4; Ro 16:18; 1Th 2:5; 2Pe 2:2,3

I will.

28; 6:10; Nu 14:28-34; Isa 14:24; 55:11; La 2:17; Da 9:12; Zec 1:6

Mt 24:35; Lu 21:13,33

in your.

Jer 16:9; Hab 1:5; Mr 13:30,31

O rebellious.

1,2

for.

22; Isa 28:14,15; Da 10:14; 2Pe 3:4

There shall.

23-25; Jer 4:7; 44:28; Mt 24:48-51; Mr 13:32-37; Lu 21:34-36

1Th 5:2,3; Re 3:3

Ezekiel 24:3-12

utter.

17:2; 19:2-14; 20:49; Ps 78:2; Mic 2:4; Mr 12:12; Lu 8:10

the rebellious.

2:3,6,8; 3:9; 12:2,25; 17:12; Isa 1:2; 30:1,9; 63:10; Ac 7:51

Set.

6; 11:3; Jer 50:13,14

22:18-22; Mic 3:2,3; Mt 7:2

the choice.

20:47; 34:16,17,20; Jer 39:6; 52:10,24-27; Re 19:20

burn. or, heap.

9,10

Woe.

9; 11:6,7; 22:2,6-9,12,27; 23:37-45; 2Ki 21:16; 24:4; Mic 7:2

Na 3:1; Mt 23:35; Re 11:7,8; 17:6; 18:24

to the pot.

11-13; Jer 6:29

bring.

9:5,6; 11:7-9,11; Jos 10:22

let no.

Jos 7:16-18; 1Sa 14:40-42; 2Sa 8:2; Joe 3:3; Ob 1:11; Jon 1:7

Na 3:10

her blood.

1Ki 21:19; Isa 3:9; Jer 2:34; 6:15

she poured.

Le 17:13; De 12:16,24; Job 16:18; Isa 26:21

it might.

5:13; 8:17,18; 22:30,31; De 32:21,22; 2Ki 22:17; 2Ch 34:25

2Ch 36:16,17; Jer 7:18,20; 15:1-4

I have set.

16:37,38; 23:45; De 29:22-28; Jer 22:8,9; Mt 7:2; 1Co 4:5

Re 17:1-6; 18:5-10,16

Woe.

6; Na 3:1; Hab 2:12; Lu 13:34,35; Re 14:20; 16:6,19

I will.

22:19-22,31; Isa 30:33; 31:9; 2Th 1:8; 2Pe 3:7-12; Jude 1:7

Re 21:8

spice.

Jer 17:3; 20:5; La 1:10; 2:16

set it.

Jer 21:10; 32:29; 37:10; 38:18; 39:8; 52:13

that the filthiness.

20:38; 22:15-23; 23:26,27,47,48; 36:25; Isa 1:25; 4:4; 27:9

Mic 5:11-14; Zec 13:1,2,8,9; Mal 4:1; Mt 3:12; 1Co 3:12,13The pot was Jerusalem; the flesh, the inhabitants in general: every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, Zedekiah, his family, and princes; the bones, the soldiers; the fire and water, the calamities they were to suffer; and the setting on of the pot, the commencement of the siege.

wearied.

Isa 47:13; 57:9,10; Jer 2:13; 9:5; 10:14,15; 51:58; Ho 12:1

Hab 2:13,18,19

her great.

6,13; Ge 6:5-7; 8:21; Isa 1:5; Jer 5:3; 44:16,17; Da 9:13,14

her scum.The pot being polluted with the scum, must be heated, melted, and even burned with fire till purified; that is, Jerusalem shall be entirely levelled with the ground, as nothing short of this will purify it from the relics of its idolatrous abominations.