Ezekiel 4:2
Context4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp 1 against it! Post soldiers outside it 2 and station battering rams around it.
Ezekiel 4:1
Context4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick 3 and set it in front of you. Inscribe 4 a city on it – Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 43:19-20
Context43:19 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. 5
Ezekiel 4:3
Context4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan 6 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 7 for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:9
Context4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 8 put them in a single container, and make food 9 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 10 – you will eat it.


[4:2] 2 tn Heb “set camps against it.”
[4:1] 3 sn Ancient Near Eastern bricks were 10 to 24 inches long and 6 to 13 1/2 inches wide.
[43:20] 5 sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.
[4:3] 7 tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.
[4:3] 8 tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.
[4:9] 9 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.