Ezekiel 12:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; ”

Ezekiel 12:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.
Ezekiel 12:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Straits of the Siege. In another message whose symbols resemble those of Ezekiel 4:10 f., Ezekiel 4:16 f., he seeks to bring home to them the certain and horrible privations of the siege.
Ezekiel 12:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I will leave , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 4:27 ). men. Hebrew, plural of enosh. App-14. from . Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; Eat thy bread with quaking - Assume the manner of a person who is every moment afraid of his life, who...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; Eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling. Symbolical representation of t...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Symbols of Exile, Flight, and Famine Ezekiel's audience being blind to the meaning of the vision he has just described, he is commanded to give them, in new symbolic actions, a further representat...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Eat thy bread with quaking. — This is another symbolical action, the meaning of which is immediately explained. The prophet is to eat and drink as men in the terror and distress of a siege.
Ezekiel 12:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The prophet was next commanded to act in the sight of the people as an exile going forth from his country, preparing "stuff for removing," and carrying it forth from place to place. He obeyed the com...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have here another sermon of the Prophet; which though short is solemn, and full of significance. The whole nation of Israel is under divine correction. The portion already carried away into Babylo...
Ezekiel 12:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking ,.... As one in surprise or fear, or that has got an ague upon him: and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness ; fearing want of it, or as appre...
Ezekiel 12:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; Ver. 18. Eat thy bread with quaking. ] With tumult and trepidation, as a frightened and perplexed p...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Moreover , &c. As he was a sign to them in digging through the wall and carrying out his stuff, so he must now be a sign to them in another way. Eat thy bread with quaking , &c. Show all th...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prediction of the Famine. B. C. 593. 17 Moreover the word of the L ORD came to me, sa...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

With quaking; with commotion or shakings, as one whose apprehension of danger brings as it were an earthquake upon him; and this trembling is the same thing, but in other words. Thy water : here i...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Fear Coming On The Land. ‘Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness.” ' This indicates...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

(2.) THE SYMBOL FROM BREAD AND WATER ( Ezekiel 12:17-20 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet is commanded to take his ordinary meals as a man under great apprehensions. It is not, as in chap. Ezekiel 4:...
Ezekiel 12:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 12:3 . Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing. Bring out thy goods ready packed up, and place the baggage before thy door. As the captives on the Chebar would neither see nor hear the...
Ezekiel 12:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 12:1 The word of the Lord, etc. This formula, so familiar in Isaiah and Jeremiah, appears for the first time in Ezekiel, but occurs repeatedly afterwards, especially in...
Ezekiel 12:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sign of Bread and Water
Ezekiel 12:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:48 ; Deuteronomy 28:65 ; Ezekiel 23:33 ; Ezekiel 4:16 ; Ezekiel 4:17 ; Job 3:24 ; Leviticus 26:26 ; Leviticus 26:36 ; Psalms 102:4-9 ; Psalms 60:2 ; Psalms 60:3 ; Psalms 80...

Ezekiel 12:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 12:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 12:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 12:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 12:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 12:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 12:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 12:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 12:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 12:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 12:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge