Ezekiel:4:1-5:17
geneva@Ezekiel:4:1 @ Thou also sonne of man, take thee a bricke, and lay it before thee, and pourtray vpon it the citie, euen Ierusalem,
geneva@Ezekiel:4:2 @ And lay siege against it, and builde a fort against it, and cast a mount against it: set the campe also against it, and lay engins of warre against it rounde about.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:3 @ Moreover take thou to thee an (note:)Which signified the stubbornness and hardness of their hearts.(:note) iron pan, and set it [for] a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This [shall be] a sign to the house of Israel.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:4 @ Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the (note:)By this he represented the idolatry and sin of the ten tribes (for Samaria was on his left hand from Babylon) and how they had remained in it three hundred and ninety years.(:note) house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:5 @ For I haue layed vpon thee the yeeres of their iniquitie, according to the nomber of the dayes, euen three hundreth and ninetie dayes: so shalt thou beare the iniquitie of the house of Israel.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:6 @ And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy (note:)Which declared Judah, who had now from the time of Josiah slept in their sins forty years.(:note) right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:7 @ Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thy (note:)In token of a speedy vengeance.(:note) arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:8 @ And, behold, I will lay (note:)The people would so straightly be besieged that they would not be able to turn them.(:note) cords upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:9 @ Take thou also to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, (note:)Meaning that the famine would be so great that they would be glad to eat whatever they could get.(:note) and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread of them, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, Which were fourteen months that the city was besieged and this was as many days as Israel sinned years. three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat of it.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:10 @ And thy food which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, (note:)Which make a pound.(:note) twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:11 @ Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of (note:){{See Exo_29:40}}(:note) an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:12 @ And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it (note:)Signifying by this the great scarcity of fuel and matter to burn.(:note) with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:13 @ And the Lord said, So shall the children of Israel eate their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will cast them.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither hath (note:)Much less such vile corruption.(:note) abominable flesh come into my mouth.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:15 @ Then he said to me, Lo, I have given thee cow's (note:)To be as fire to bake your bread with.(:note) dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with them.
geneva@Ezekiel:4:16 @ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break (note:)That is, the force and strength with which it would nourish, (Isa_3:1; Eze_14:13).(:note) the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and in horror:
geneva@Ezekiel:4:17 @ Because that bread and water shall faile, they shalbe astonied one with another, and shall consume away for their iniquitie.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:1 @ And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause [it] (note:)To shave your head and your beard.(:note) to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take to thee balances to weigh, and divide the [hair].
geneva@Ezekiel:5:2 @ Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the (note:)That is, of that city which he had portrayed on the brick, (Eze_4:1). By the fire and pestilence he means the famine, with which one part perished during the siege of Nebuchadnezzar. By the sword, those that were slain when Zedekiah fled and those that were carried away captive and by the scattering into the wind, those that fled into Egypt, and into other parts after the city was taken.(:note) city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a sword: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:3 @ Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy (note:)Meaning, that a very few would be left, which the Lord would preserve among all these storms, but not without troubles and trial.(:note) skirts.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:4 @ Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; (note:)Out of the fire which you kindled will come a fire which will signify the destruction of Israel.(:note) from which a fire shall come forth into all the house of Israel.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:5 @ Thus saith the Lorde God, This is Ierusalem: I haue set it in the middes of the nations and countreyes, that are rounde about her.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:6 @ And she hath changed my (note:)My word and law into idolatry and superstitions.(:note) judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye (note:)Because your idols are in greater number, and your superstitions more than among the professed idolaters, read (Isa_65:11) or he condemns their ingratitude in respect to his benefits.(:note) multiplied more than the nations that [are] around you, [and] have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that [are] around you;
geneva@Ezekiel:5:8 @ Therefore thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, I, euen I come against thee, and will execute iudgement in the middes of thee, euen in the sight of the nations.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:9 @ And I will doe in thee, that I neuer did before, neither will do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:10 @ For in the middes of thee, the fathers shall eate their sonnes, and the sonnes shall eate their fathers, and I will execute iudgement in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the windes.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Wherefore, as I liue, saith the Lorde God, Surely because thou hast defiled my Sanctuarie with all thy filthinesse, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also destroy thee, neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I haue any pitie.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:12 @ The third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they bee consumed in the middes of thee: and another third part shall fall by the sword round about thee: and I will scatter the last third part into all windes, and I will drawe out a sword after them.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:13 @ Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be (note:)That is, I will not be pacified till I am avenged, (Isa_1:24).(:note) comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it] in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:14 @ Moreouer, I will make thee waste, and abhorred among the nations, that are round about thee, and in the sight of all that passe by.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:15 @ So thou shalt bee a reproche and shame, a chastisement and an astonishment vnto the nations, that are rounde about thee, when I shall execute iudgements in thee, in anger and in wrath, and in sharpe rebukes: I the Lorde haue spoken it.
geneva@Ezekiel:5:16 @ When I shall send upon them the evil (note:)Which were the grasshoppers, mildew and whatever were opportunities for famine.(:note) arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
geneva@Ezekiel:5:17 @ So will I send vpon you famine, and euill beastes, and they shall spoyle thee, and pestilence and blood shall passe through thee, and I will bring the sworde vpon thee: I the Lorde haue spoken it.
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