Isaiah 20:2-3

Isaiah. Heb. the hand of Isaiah. Go.

Jer 13:1-11; 19:1-15; Eze 4:5; Mt 16:24

the sackcloth.

2Ki 1:8; Zec 13:4; Mt 3:4; Re 11:3

put.

Ex 3:5; Jos 5:15; Eze 24:17,23

naked.

1Sa 19:24; 2Sa 6:20; Job 1:20,21; Mic 1:8,11; Joh 21:7; Ac 19:16

three.

Nu 14:34; Eze 4:5,6; Re 11:2,3

a sign.

8:18

upon Egypt.

18:1-7

Jeremiah 13:1-11

1 By the type of a linen girdle, hidden at Euphrates, God prefigures the destruction of his people.

12 Under the parable of the bottles filled with wine he foretells their drunkenness in misery.

15 He exhorts to prevent their future judgments.

22 He shews their abominations are the cause thereof.

A.M. 3405. B.C. 599. Go.

11; 19:1; 27:2; Eze 4:1-5:17; Heb 1:1

according.

Pr 3:5; Isa 20:2; Eze 2:8; Ho 1:2,3; Joh 13:6,7; 15:14

the word

3,8

go.Intending to point out, by this distant place, the country, Chaldea, into which they were to be carried captive.

51:63,64; Ps 137:1; Mic 4:10

as.

Ex 39:42,43; 40:16; Mt 22:2-6; Joh 2:5-8; Ac 26:19,20; 2Ti 2:3

Heb 11:8,17-19

Arise.

2-5

it was.

10; 24:1-8; Isa 64:6; Eze 15:3-5; Zec 3:3,4; Lu 14:34,35; Ro 3:12

Phm 1:11

8

After.

18:4-6; La 5:5-8

the pride.

15-17; Le 26:19; Job 40:10-12; Pr 16:18; Isa 2:10-17; 23:9

Eze 16:50,56; Na 2:2; *marg:

Zep 3:11; Lu 18:14; Jas 4:6; 1Pe 5:5

the great.

48:29; Isa 16:6

evil.

5:23; 7:25-28; 8:5; 11:7,18; 15:1; 25:3-7; 34:14-17; Nu 14:11

2Ch 36:15,16; Heb 12:25

walk.

7:24; 9:14; 11:8; 16:12; Ec 11:9; Eph 4:17-19

imagination. or, stubbornness.

3:17; *marg:

Ps 78:8; Ac 7:51

shall.

7; 15:1-4; 16:4; Isa 3:24

I caused.

Ex 19:5,6; De 4:7; 26:18; 32:10-15; Ps 135:4; 147:20

for a name.

33:9; Isa 43:21; 62:12; 1Pe 2:9

but.

10; 6:17; Ps 81:11; Joh 5:37-40

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

Ho 12:10

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.

5

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.

15

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.

8

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

Hosea 3:1

1 The Lord's intended future kindness to Israel, not withstanding their wickedness, illustrated by the emblem of Hosea's conduct towards his adulterous wife.

4 The desolation of Israel before their restoration.

Go yet.

1:2,3

friend.

Jer 3:1,20; *marg:

Mt 26:50

according.

11:8; De 7:6,7; Jud 10:16; 2Ki 13:23; Ne 9:18,19,31; Ps 106:43-46

Jer 3:1-4,12-14; 31:20; Mic 7:18-20; Zec 1:16; Lu 1:54,55

look.

Ps 123:2; Isa 17:7,8; 45:22; Mic 7:7

love flagons.

4:11; 7:5; 9:1,2; Ex 32:6; Jud 9:27; Am 2:8; 6:6; 1Co 10:7,21; 1Pe 4:3

wine. Heb. grapes.
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