(KJV) Ezekiel 41
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⥃A Sign of Jerusalem’s Siege
[1] Thou also, son of man, take2 thee a tile3, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, [even4] Jerusalem: [2] And lay5 siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set [battering] rams6 against it round about. [3] Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan7, and set it [for] a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This8 [shall be] a sign to the house of Israel. [4] Lie thou also upon9 thy left side, and lay10 the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear11 their iniquity. [5] For I have12 laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three13 hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. [6] And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days14: I have appointed thee each day for a year15. [7] Therefore thou shalt set16 thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine17 arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. [8] And, behold, I will18 lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another19, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
⥃The Defiled Bread
[9] Take thou also unto thee wheat20, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet21, and fitches22, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three23 hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. [10] And thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.24 [11] Thou shalt drink25 also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. [12] And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes26, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. [13] And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.27 [14] Then said I, Ah28 Lord God! behold, my soul29 hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I30 not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable31 flesh into my mouth. [15] Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung32 for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. [16] Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will33 break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat34 bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: [17] That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume35 away for their iniquity.
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Ezek 4:1, Under the type of a siege is shewn the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity; Ezek 4:9, By the provision of the siege, is shewn the hardness of the famine. ↩
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Ezek 5:1-17, Ezek 12:3-16; 1Sam 15:27-28; 1Kgs 11:30-31; Isa 20:2-4; Jer 13:1-14, Jer 18:2-12, Jer 19:1-15, Jer 25:15-38, Jer 27:2-22; Hos 1:2-9, Hos 3:1-5; Hos 12:10 ↩
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μαπδ ( לְבֵנָה ), 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. ↩
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or, chief leaders, Ezek 21:22 ↩
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Ezek 12:6, Ezek 12:11, Ezek 24:24-27; Isa 8:18, Isa 20:3; Luke 2:34; Heb 2:4 ↩
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Lev 10:17, Lev 16:22; Num 14:34, Num 18:1; Isa 53:11-12; Matt 8:17; Heb 9:28; 1Pet 2:24 ↩
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This number of years will take us back from the year in which Judea was finally desolated by Nebuzar–adan, bc 584, to the establishment of idolatry in Israel by Jeroboam, bc 975. "Beginning from 1Kgs 12:33. Ending Jer 52:30." ↩
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This represented the forty years during which gross idolatry prevailed in Judah, from the reformation of Josiah, bc 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 (Ezek 4:9), deducting from it five months and twenty-nine days, when the besiegers went to meet the Egyptians (2Kgs 25:1-4; Jer 37:5); and that forty days may have been employed in desolating the temple and city. "Beginning from 2Kgs 23:3, 2Kgs 23:23. Ending Jer 52:30." ↩
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Heb. a day for a year, a day for a year, Num 14:34; Dan 9:24-26, Dan 12:11-12; Rev 9:15, Rev 11:2-3, Rev 12:14, Rev 13:5 ↩
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Heb. from thy side to thy side ↩
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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. ↩
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or, spelt, Kussemim is doubtless ζεα, or spelt, as Aquila and Symmachus render here; and so LXX and Theodotion, ολυρα. In times of scarcity it is customary to mix several kinds of coarser grains with the finer, to make it last the longer. ↩
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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. Ezek 4:15 ↩
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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. Ezek 4:10-11, Ezek 12:18-19; Ps 60:3; Lam 1:11, Lam 4:9-10, Lam 5:9 ↩