Ezekiel 4:4

4:4 “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity ¹  of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 4:9

4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, ²  put them in a single container, and make food ³  from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days ⁴  – you will eat it.

Ezekiel 12:16

12:16 But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

[4:4]  ¹ tn Or “punishment” (also in vv. 5, 6).

[4:9]  ² sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.

[4:9]  ³ tn Heb “bread.”

[4:9]  ⁴ tc The LXX reads “190 days.”