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Text -- Ezekiel 4:3 (NET)

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4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
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 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Symbols and Similitudes | Prophecy | Pantomime | PAN | Israel | Iron | Instruction | IRON (1) | Ezekiel, Book of | Ezekiel | BREAD | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Eze 4:3 - -- That it may resemble a wall of iron, for as impregnable as such a wall, shall the resolution and patience of the Chaldeans be.

That it may resemble a wall of iron, for as impregnable as such a wall, shall the resolution and patience of the Chaldeans be.

JFB: Eze 4:3 - -- The divine decree as to the Chaldean army investing the city.

The divine decree as to the Chaldean army investing the city.

JFB: Eze 4:3 - -- Ezekiel, in the person of God, represents the wall of separation between him and the people as one of iron: and the Chaldean investing army. His instr...

Ezekiel, in the person of God, represents the wall of separation between him and the people as one of iron: and the Chaldean investing army. His instrument of separating them from him, as one impossible to burst through.

JFB: Eze 4:3 - -- Inexorably (Psa 34:16). The exiles envied their brethren remaining in Jerusalem, but exile is better than the straitness of a siege.

Inexorably (Psa 34:16). The exiles envied their brethren remaining in Jerusalem, but exile is better than the straitness of a siege.

Clarke: Eze 4:3 - -- Take thou unto thee an iron pan - מחבת machabath , a flat plate or slice, as the margin properly renders it: such as are used in some countries...

Take thou unto thee an iron pan - מחבת machabath , a flat plate or slice, as the margin properly renders it: such as are used in some countries to bake bread on, called a griddle or girdle, being suspended above the fire, and kept in a proper degree of heat for the purpose. A plate like this, stuck perpendicularly in the earth, would show the nature of a wall much better than any pan could do. The Chaldeans threw such a wall round Jerusalem, to prevent the besieged from receiving any succours, and from escaping from the city

Clarke: Eze 4:3 - -- This shall be a sign to the house of Israel - This shall be an emblematical representation of what shall actually take place.

This shall be a sign to the house of Israel - This shall be an emblematical representation of what shall actually take place.

TSK: Eze 4:3 - -- an iron pan : or, a flat plate, or slice, Lev 2:5 This : Eze 12:6, Eze 12:11, Eze 24:24-27; Isa 8:18, Isa 20:3; Luk 2:34; Heb 2:4

an iron pan : or, a flat plate, or slice, Lev 2:5

This : Eze 12:6, Eze 12:11, Eze 24:24-27; Isa 8:18, Isa 20:3; Luk 2:34; Heb 2:4

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Barnes: Eze 4:3 - -- An iron pan - Another figure in the coming siege. On Assyrian sculptures from Nimroud and Kouyunjik there are sieges of cities with "forts, mou...

An iron pan - Another figure in the coming siege. On Assyrian sculptures from Nimroud and Kouyunjik there are sieges of cities with "forts, mounts, and rams;"and together with these we see a kind of shield set up on the ground, behind which archers are shooting. Such a shield would be represented by the "flat plate"(margin). Ezekiel was directed to take such a plate (part of his household furniture) and place it between him and the representation of the city.

A sign to the house of Israel - This "sign"was not necessarily acted before the people, but may simply have been described to them as a vivid representation of the event which it foretold. "Israel"stands here for the kingdom of Judah (compare Eze 3:7, Eze 3:17; Eze 5:4; Eze 8:6). After the captivity of the ten tribes the kingdom of Judah represented the whole nation. Hence, prophets writing after this event constantly address their countrymen as the house of Israel without distinction of tribes.

Poole: Eze 4:3 - -- An iron pan to signify the hardness and obstinacy of the besiegers; probably a frying-pan, on the plain part of which the the bearing the portrait of...

An iron pan to signify the hardness and obstinacy of the besiegers; probably a frying-pan, on the plain part of which the the bearing the portrait of Jerusalem lying, the iron edges or brims compassed it round about, as a line drawn round a besieged city, out of which the distressed could not flee, into which no relief could be brought. It plainly noted the cruelty of the Chaldeans and future tortures of the Jews, who were like to be fried or broiled in this iron pan, as Jer 29:22 ; /APC 2Mac 7:5.

Set it for a wall of iron that it may resemble a wall of iron; for as impregnable as such a wall should the courage, resolution, and patience of the Chaldeans be attacking it.

Set thy face against it fix thy displeased countenance against it, in token of my displeasure.

Thou shalt lay siege: if the prophet do represent him that sent him, then it speaks God’ s appearing against these wicked ones.

This shall be a sign all these things are signs and emblems usual with all, most usual with this prophet, who in this hieroglyphic foreshows the state of those that lived at Jerusalem.

Haydock: Eze 4:3 - -- Pan, or plate, on which bread was usually baked. This was to represent the walls of the city. (Calmet)

Pan, or plate, on which bread was usually baked. This was to represent the walls of the city. (Calmet)

Gill: Eze 4:3 - -- Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan,.... Which Kimchi thinks, for its metal, represented the hardness of the hearts of the people of Israel; and,...

Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan,.... Which Kimchi thinks, for its metal, represented the hardness of the hearts of the people of Israel; and, for its colour, the blackness of their sins: though others are of opinion, this being a pan in which things are fried, it may signify the miseries of the Jews in captivity; the roasting of Ahab and Zedekiah in the fire, and particularly the burning of the city: others, the wrath of God against them, and his resolution to destroy them: but rather, since the use of it was as follows,

and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city, it seems to represent all such things as are made use of by besiegers to screen them from the besieged; such as are now used are trenches, parapets, bastions, &c. for the prophet in this type is the besieger, representing the Chaldean army secure from the annoyance of those within the walls of the city:

and set thy face against it; with a firm resolution to besiege and take the city; which denotes both the settled wrath of God against this people, and the determined purpose of the king of Babylon not to move from it until he had taken it:

and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it; as an emblem of the army of the Chaldeans besieging it, which is confirmed by the next clause:

this shall be a sign to the house of Israel; of the city of Jerusalem being besieged by the Babylonians; this was a sign representing it, and giving them assurance of it.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 4:3 That is, a symbolic object lesson.

Geneva Bible: Eze 4:3 Moreover take thou to thee an ( a ) 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 ...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Eze 4:1-17 - --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 o...

MHCC: Eze 4:1-8 - --The prophet was to represent the siege of Jerusalem by signs. He was to lie on his left side for a number of days, supposed to be equal to the years f...

Matthew Henry: Eze 4:1-8 - -- The prophet is here ordered to represent to himself and others by signs which would be proper and powerful to strike the fancy and to affect the min...

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 4:1--7:27 - --A. Ezekiel's initial warnings chs. 4-7 In this section, Ezekiel grouped several symbolic acts that pictu...

Constable: Eze 4:1--5:17 - --1. Dramatizations of the siege of Jerusalem chs. 4-5 The Lord had shut Ezekiel's mouth (3:26), s...

Constable: Eze 4:1-3 - --The brick and the plate 4:1-3 4:1-2 The Lord instructed Ezekiel to construct a model of Jerusalem under siege. He was to build a model of the city usi...

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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 4 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Eze 4:1, Under the type of a siege is shewn the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity; Eze 4:9, By the provision of the si...

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 4 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 4 The prophet is directed to represent a mock siege of Jerusalem for a sign to the Jews, Eze 4:1-3 ; and to lie before it in one posture fo...

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 4 (Chapter Introduction) (Eze 4:1-8) The siege of Jerusalem. (Eze 4:9-17) The famine the inhabitants would suffer.

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 4 (Chapter Introduction) Ezekiel was now among the captives in Babylon, but they there had Jerusalem still upon their hearts; the pious captives looked towards it with an e...

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 4 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 4 This chapter contains a prophecy of the siege of Jerusalem, and of the famine that attended it. The siege is described by...

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