Ezekiel 4:2

4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it.

Ezekiel 4:1

Ominous Object Lessons

4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it – Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 43:19-20

43:19 you will give a young bull for a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are descended from Zadok, who approach me to minister to me, declares the sovereign Lord. 43:20 You will take some of its blood, and place it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around; you will cleanse it and make atonement for it.

Ezekiel 4:3

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.

Ezekiel 4:9

4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 10  – you will eat it.


tn Or “a barricade.”

tn Heb “set camps against it.”

sn Ancient Near Eastern bricks were 10 to 24 inches long and 6 to 13 1/2 inches wide.

tn Or perhaps “draw.”

sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.

tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.

10 tn Heb “bread.”

11 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”