Ezekiel 4:1-5

4:1

take <03947> [take.]

brick <03843> [a tile.]

[Lebˆbnƒh <\\See definition 03843\\>,] {levainah,} generally denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed. Perhaps, however, it may here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57.

Jerusalem <03389> [even.]

4:2

Lay ................ Post <05414> [lay.]

battering rams <03733> [battering rams. or, chief leaders.]

4:3

iron frying ......... iron <04227 01270> [an iron pan. or, a flat plate, or slice.]

sign <0226> [This.]

4:4

left ................ number ........... bear <08042 04557 05375> [upon.]

place <07760> [and lay.]

bear <05375> [thou shalt bear.]

4:5

determined <05414> [I have.]

390 <07969> [three.]

This number of years will take us back from the year in which Judea was finally desolated by Nebuzar-adan, B.C. 584, to the establishment of idolatry in Israel by Jeroboam, B.C. 975. "Beginning from 1 Ki 12:33. Ending Jer 52:30."