Eze 4:1-7, 21:22, Luk 19:43, 21:20 | 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 4:1-7

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

Ezekiel 21:22

captains. or battering rams. Heb. rams.

4:2

to lift.

Ex 32:17,18; Jos 6:10,20; 1Sa 17:20; Job 39:25; Jer 51:14

to appoint.

4:2; Jer 32:24; 33:4; 52:4

Luke 19:43

the days.

21:20-24; De 28:49-58; Ps 37:12,13; Da 9:26,27; Mt 22:7; 23:37-39

Mr 13:14-20; 1Th 2:15,16

cast.Or, "cast a bank" or rampart [charax .] This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by Titus; who surrounded it with a wall of circumvallation in three days, though not less than 39 furlongs in circumference; and when this was effected, the Jews were so enclosed on every side, that no person could escape from the city, and no provision could be brought in.

Isa 29:1-4; Jer 6:3-6

Luke 21:20

7; 19:43; Da 9:27; Mt 24:15; Mr 13:14