Ezekiel 6:2
turn <07760> [set.]
mountains <02022> [the mountains.]
Ezekiel 6:1
word <01697> [And the word.]
This is a new prophecy, and was probably given after the 430 days of his lying on his left and right side were accomplished. By Israel here Judea is simply meant; not the ten tribes, who had long before been carried captive.
Ezekiel 2:1-10
Son <01121> [Son.]
stand <05975> [stand.]
sending <07971> [I send.]
sending ..... house ..... rebellious nations .... rebelled <01471 04775> [a rebellious nation. Heb. rebellious nations.]
sending ..... house ..... rebellious ..... rebelled <04775> [rebelled.]
hard-hearted <07186> [they.]
hard-hearted <07186> [impudent. Heb. hard of face.]
say .......... says <0559> [Thus.]
listen ... not <08085 02308> [whether.]
know <03045> [yet.]
fear ...... fear .................. fear <03372> [be not.]
briers <05621> [briers. or, rebels.]
scorpions <06137> [scorpions.]
rebellious <04805> [though they.]
speak <01696> [thou.]
listen ... not <08085 02308> [whether.]
rebellious <04805> [most rebellious. Heb. rebellion.]
Do <01961> [Be.]
Open <06475> [open.]
hand <03027> [an hand.]
scroll <04039> [a roll.]
[All ancient books were written so as to be rolled up: hence]
{volumen,} a volume, from {volvo,} I roll.
unrolled <06566> [spread.]
before ...... writing .... front .... written <06440 03789> [was written within.]
Contrary to the state of rolls in general, which are written on the inside only.
laments <07015> [lamentations.]
Ezekiel 4:1-17
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.]
Lay ................ Post <05414> [lay.]
battering rams <03733> [battering rams. or, chief leaders.]
iron frying ......... iron <04227 01270> [an iron pan. or, a flat plate, or slice.]
sign <0226> [This.]
left ................ number ........... bear <08042 04557 05375> [upon.]
place <07760> [and lay.]
bear <05375> [thou shalt bear.]
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."
40 days ...... day ... each <0705 03117> [forty days.]
This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, B.C. 624, to the same final desolation of the land. Some think that the period of 390 days also predicts the duration of the siege of the Babylonians, (ver. 9,) deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days, when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians (2 Ki 25:1-4; Jer 37:5;) and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from 2 Ki 23:3, 23. Ending Jer 52:30."
days ...... day ... each year <08141 03117> [each day for a year. Heb. a day for a year, a day for a year.]
<03559> [set.]
arm <02220> [and thine.]
will <05414> [I will.]
side .... other <06654> [from one side to another. Heb. from thy side to thy side.]
wheat <02406> [wheat.]
millet <01764> [millet.]
{Dochan,} in Arabic, {dokhn,} the {holcus dochna} of Forskal, is a kind of millet, of considerable use as a food; the cultivation of which is described by Browne.
spelt <03698> [fitches. or, spelt.]
{Kussemim} is doubtless [zea,] or spelt, as Aquila and Symmachus render here; and so LXX. and Theodotion, [olyra.] In times of scarcity it is customary to mix several kinds of coarser grains with the finer, to make it last the longer.
390 <07969> [three.]
drink ............ drink <08354> [shalt drink.]
[cake. a "round" thing.]
Ah <0162> [Ah.]
ceremonially <05315> [my soul.]
eaten <0398> [have I.]
unclean <06292> [abominable.]
cow's manure ..... excrement <06832 01561 01241> [cow's dung.]
Dried cow-dung is a common fuel in the East, as it is in many parts of England, to the present day; but the prophet was ordered to prepare his bread with human ordure, to shew the extreme degree of wretchedness to which the besieged should be exposed, as they would be obliged literally to use it, from not being able to leave the city to collect other fuel.
remove <07665> [I will.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure.
rot <04743> [and consume.]
Ezekiel 17:1-24
great .... broad <01419> [A great.]
Nebuchadnezzar, so called from his towering ambition and rapaciousness.
great .... broad wings <03671 01419> [great wings.]
Extensive empire, both in length and breadth.
full <04392> [full.]
Numerous subjects, of various nations, and of different languages and manners.
multi-hued <07553> [divers colours. Heb. embroidering. came.]
Came against Judah and Jerusalem.
top <06788> [the highest.]
Jeconiah, whom he took captive to Babylon.
cedar <0730> [the cedar.]
The royal and ancient family of David.
topmost <07218> [the top.]
The princes of Judah.
land <0776> [into.]
land <0776> [a land. Chaldea. a city.]
Babylon, which by means of the Euphrates and Tigris, had communications with the richest and most distant nations.
seedlings ......... cultivated <02233> [the seed.]
Zedekiah, brother to Jeconiah.
seedlings ..... placed ..... cultivated plot <02233 07704 05414> [planted it in a fruitful field. Heb. put it in a field of seed.]
Made him king of Judea.
took <03947> [he placed.]
Made him dependent on Babylon, the city of great waters, as the willow is on humidity.
sprouted <06779> [it grew.]
branches <01808> [whose.]
The Jewish state had then no height of dominion; and Zedekiah was wholly dependent on Nebuchadnezzar.
another <0259> [another.]
Pharaoh-hophra, or Apries, king of Egypt.
twisted <03719> [did bend.]
Looked to him for support, in his intended rebellion.
field <07704> [soil. Heb. field.]
bear <05375> [and that.]
Though he was dependent on Babylon, yet he was in such a situation as would have enabled him to reign in credit, and be useful to his people.
prosper <06743> [Shall it.]
Shall he succeed in casting off the yoke of the king of Babylon, to whom he had sworn fealty?
rip out <05423> [shall he.]
He shall come and dethrone him, and carry him captive.
fruit <06529> [the fruit.]
The children of Zedekiah.
strong <01419> [even.]
prosper ..... wither completely ............ wither <06743 03001> [shall it.]
rebellious <04805> [to the.]
know <03045> [Know.]
king .......... king <04428> [Behold.]
came ............. brought <0935> [and led.]
took ............. put ....... took <03947 0935> [hath taken.]
took ............. put .... oath .... took <0423 03947 0935> [taken an oath of him. Heb. brought him to an oath.]
took ................... took <03947> [he hath also.]
kingdom <04467> [the kingdom.]
lowly <08217> [base.]
Or, low; a tributary kingdom, dependent on the king of Babylon.
keep ... treaty ....... stand <08104 01285 05975> [but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand. Heb. to keep his covenant, to stand to it.]
rebelled <04775> [he rebelled.]
sending <07971> [in.]
prosper <06743> [Shall he prosper.]
one ..... escape ........ escape <04422> [shall he escape.]
break <06565> [or shall.]
oath <0423> [whose oath.]
middle <08432> [even.]
Pharaoh <06547> [shall.]
when siege <08210> [by.]
despised <0959> [Seeing.]
Though Zedekiah's oath had been given to a heathen, a conqueror, and a tyrant, yet God considered the violation of it a most aggravated sin against Him, and determined to punish him for it.
gave <05414> [lo, he.]
escape <04422> [he shall.]
oath <0423> [surely.]
I ... throw <06566> [I will spread.]
judge <08199> [plead.]
choice men <04015> [all his fugitives.]
know <03045> [shall know.]
top <06788> [highest.]
tender <07390> [a tender.]
high <01364> [upon.]
raise <05375> [and it.]
live ........ live <07931> [under.]
trees ................ tree ........ tree ...... tree ........ tree <06086> [all the trees.]
low <08213> [have brought.]
Lord ............................. Lord ... spoken <03068 01696> [I the Lord have spoken.]
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