TSK - EZEKIEL 4

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  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.

VERSE 1
- take.
   * Eze 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.
  [         ,] {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

VERSE 2 
 - lay.
   * Jer 39:1,2; 52:4 Lu 19:42-44
- battering rams.  or, chief leaders.
   * Eze 21:22

VERSE 3 
 - an iron pan.  or, a flat plate, or slice.
   * Le 2:5
- This.
   * Eze 12:6,11; 24:24-27 Isa 8:18; 20:3 Lu 2:34 Heb 2:4

VERSE 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

VERSE 5 
 - 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."

VERSE 6 
 - 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 a
  year.
   * Nu 14:34 Da 9:24-26; 12:11,12 Re 9:15; 11:2,3; 12:14; 13:5

VERSE 7 
 - set.
   * :3; 6:2
- and thine.
   * Isa 52:10

VERSE 8 
 - I will.
   * Eze 3:25
- from one side to another.  Heb. from thy side to thy side.

VERSE 9 
 - 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 [         ,] or spelt, as Aquila and
  Symmachus render here; and so LXX. and Theodotion, [       .]
  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
VERSE 10
    * :16; 14:13 Le 26:26 De 28:51-68 Isa 3:1

VERSE 11 
 - shalt drink.
   * :16 Isa 5:13 Joh 3:34

VERSE 12 
 - cake.  a "round" thing.
   * Ge 18:6
VERSE 13
    * Da 1:8 Ho 9:3,4

VERSE 14 
 - Ah.
   * Eze 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

VERSE 15 
 - 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

VERSE 16 
 - I will.
   * Eze 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

VERSE 17 
 - and consume.
   * Eze 24:23 Le 26:39



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