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Text -- Ezekiel 12:18 (NET)

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12:18 “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Symbols and Similitudes | Pantomime | Israel | Instruction | EZEKIEL, 2 | CARE; CAREFULNESS; CAREFUL | Babylon | more
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JFB: Eze 12:18 - -- Symbolical representation of the famine and fear with which they should eat their scanty morsel, in their exile, and especially at the siege.

Symbolical representation of the famine and fear with which they should eat their scanty morsel, in their exile, and especially at the siege.

Clarke: Eze 12:18 - -- Eat thy bread with quaking - Assume the manner of a person who is every moment afraid of his life, who has nothing but a morsel of bread to eat, and...

Eat thy bread with quaking - Assume the manner of a person who is every moment afraid of his life, who has nothing but a morsel of bread to eat, and a little water to drink. Thus signifying the siege, and the straits to which they should be reduced. See this explained, Eze 12:19 (note).

TSK: Eze 12:18 - -- Eze 4:16, Eze 4:17, Eze 23:33; Lev 26:26, Lev 26:36; Deu 28:48, Deu 28:65; Job 3:24; Psa 60:2, Psa 60:3; Psa 80:5, Psa 102:4-9

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Eze 12:18 - -- Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.

Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.

Poole: Eze 12:18 - -- With quaking with commotion or shakings, as one whose apprehension of danger brings as it were an earthquake upon him; and this trembling is the same...

With quaking with commotion or shakings, as one whose apprehension of danger brings as it were an earthquake upon him; and this trembling is the same thing, but in other words. Thy water : here is no mention of delicious and generous wines, but water; so low should they be reduced, and yet not enjoy this very little, because of the great inward fears that shake them.

Haydock: Eze 12:18 - -- Sorrow. Act like one under great anxiety and distress. (Calmet)

Sorrow. Act like one under great anxiety and distress. (Calmet)

Gill: Eze 12:18 - -- Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking,.... As one in surprise or fear, or that has got an ague upon him: and drink thy water with trembling and wi...

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking,.... As one in surprise or fear, or that has got an ague upon him:

and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; fearing want of it, or as apprehensive of danger of its being taken away; see Eze 4:16.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 12:18 The Hebrew term normally refers to an earthquake (see 1 Kgs 19:11; Amos 1:1).

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Eze 12:1-28 - --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' presumptuo...

MHCC: Eze 12:17-20 - --The prophet must eat and drink in care and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. When mini...

Matthew Henry: Eze 12:17-20 - -- Here again the prophet is made a sign to them of the desolations that were coming on Judah and Jerusalem. 1. He must himself eat and drink in care a...

Keil-Delitzsch: Eze 12:17-20 - -- Sign Depicting the Terrors and Consequences of the Conquest of Jerusalem Eze 12:17. And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Eze 12:18. Son of...

Constable: Eze 4:1--24:27 - --II. Oracles of judgment on Judah and Jerusalem for sin chs. 4-24 This section of the book contains prophecies th...

Constable: Eze 12:1--19:14 - --C. Yahweh's reply to the invalid hopes of the Israelites chs. 12-19 "The exiles had not grasped the seri...

Constable: Eze 12:1-20 - --1. The dramatic tragedy of exile 12:1-20 This section contains three messages from the Lord all ...

Constable: Eze 12:17-20 - --The sign of the anxious eater 12:17-20 12:17-18 The Lord also instructed Ezekiel to eat his bread and drink his water while trembling and visibly anxi...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) The name Ezekiel means "(whom) God will strengthen" [GESENIUS]; or, "God will prevail" [ROSENMULLER]. His father was Buzi (Eze 1:3), a priest, and he ...

JFB: Ezekiel (Outline) EZEKIEL'S VISION BY THE CHEBAR. FOUR CHERUBIM AND WHEELS. (Eze. 1:1-28) EZEKIEL'S COMMISSION. (Eze 2:1-10) EZEKIEL EATS THE ROLL. IS COMMISSIONED TO ...

TSK: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) The character of Ezekiel, as a Writer and Poet, is thus admirably drawn by the masterly hand of Bishop Lowth: " Ezekiel is much inferior to Jeremiah ...

TSK: Ezekiel 12 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Eze 12:1, Under the type of Ezekiel’s removing, Eze 12:8, is shewn the captivity of Zedekiah; Eze 12:17, Ezekiel’s trembling shews th...

Poole: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) BOOK OF THE PROPHET EZEKIEL THE ARGUMENT EZEKIEL was by descent a priest, and by commission a prophet, and received it from heaven, as will appea...

Poole: Ezekiel 12 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 12 Under the type of Ezekiel’ s removing of his household stuff is showed the captivity of Zedekiah and his people, Eze 12:1-16 . Unde...

MHCC: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) Ezekiel was one of the priests; he was carried captive to Chaldea with Jehoiachin. All his prophecies appear to have been delivered in that country, a...

MHCC: Ezekiel 12 (Chapter Introduction) (v. 1-16) The approaching captivity. (Eze 12:17-20) An emblem of the consternation of the Jews. (Eze 12:21-28) Answers to the objections of scoffers...

Matthew Henry: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel When we entered upon the writings of the prophets, which speak of the ...

Matthew Henry: Ezekiel 12 (Chapter Introduction) Though the vision of God's glory had gone up from the prophet, yet his word comes to him still, and is by him sent to the people, and to the same p...

Constable: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Writer The title of this book comes from its writer, Ezekiel, t...

Constable: Ezekiel (Outline) Outline I. Ezekiel's calling and commission chs. 1-3 A. The vision of God's glory ch. 1 ...

Constable: Ezekiel Ezekiel Bibliography Ackroyd, Peter R. Exile and Restoration. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968. ...

Haydock: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF EZECHIEL. INTRODUCTION. Ezechiel, whose name signifies the strength of God, was of the priestly race, and of the number of t...

Gill: Ezekiel (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL This book is rightly placed after Jeremiah; since Ezekiel was among the captives in Chaldea, when prophesied; whereas Jerem...

Gill: Ezekiel 12 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 12 In this chapter, under the sign of the prophet's removing household goods, is represented the removal of the king of Jud...

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