Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  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 ²  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 4:9

4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, ³  put them in a single container, and make food ⁴  from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days ⁵  – you will eat it.

Ezekiel 5:1

5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ⁶  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ⁷  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

Ezekiel 37:16

37:16 “As for you, son of man, take one branch, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another branch and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the branch of Ephraim and all the house of Israel associated with him.’

¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

³ sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.

⁴ tn Heb “bread.”

⁵ tc The LXX reads “190 days.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

⁶ tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”