Ezekiel 4:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. ”

Ezekiel 4:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

(C) The Hardships of the Exiles and the Besieged. The horrors of famine, consequent upon the siege, are suggested by the symbolical action of this section, in which the prophet's food and drink are...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

consume away , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:39 ). Compare Ezekiel 24:23 . Eze 24:33. to ("pine away "). App-92.
Ezekiel 4:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
Ezekiel 4:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. That they may ... be astonied one with another - mutually regard one another with ast...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 2. The Overthrow of the Jewish Kingdom Foretold (Ezekiel 4-7) The great theme of the first part of Ezekiel's prophetic ministry was the certainty of the complete downfall of the Jewish state. Th...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1-17 - Ezekiel 7:1-27 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of abo...
Ezekiel 4:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The second division of the Book contains the messages of the prophet concerning the reprobation of the chosen nation. These fall into three parts. In the first, by symbolism and speech he described t...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Melancholy as this was, when the bread and water were given out by weight and measure, yet infinitely more distressing is it, when the Lord makes a famine, not of the bread that perisheth, but that w...
Ezekiel 4:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That they may want bread and water ,.... Or, "because they shall want" l c. therefore they shall eat the one, and drink the other, by weight or they shall do this till there shall be none to eat and...
Ezekiel 4:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. Ver. 17. And be astonied. ] At their straits and disappointments. And consume away for...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem I will cause a scarcity of bread in Jerusalem, 2 Kings 25:3 ; and deprive it of the chief support of man's life. And they shall eat their brea...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Representation of a Famine. B. C. 595. 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barle...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The Lord will take away their provision, that they may die with want, punished for all their sins, and disappointed of all that their false prophets promised them; and under strangest disappointments...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with carefulness, and they will drink water by measure and with disma...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scanty means of subsistence symbolising punishment (chap. Ezekiel 4:9-17 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 4:9 . The several sorts of vegetable food—the richest and the poorest in nutritive elements—...
Ezekiel 4:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 4:1 . Son of man, take thee a tile. It is probable that the prophet took a sheet of plastic clay proper for his purpose; for the Hebrew root בנה banah, is generally applied to constructi...
Ezekiel 4:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread. Conformity of punishment to sin They had sinned in excess, and God would take away their plenty. Hosea 13:6 , “According to thei...
Ezekiel 4:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Prior to any detailed examination of the strange series of acts recorded in this and the following chapter, we are met with the question whether they were indeed visible and outward a...
Ezekiel 4:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Symbols of the Famine
Ezekiel 4:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 24:23 ; Leviticus 26:39
Ezekiel 4:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

May want — So because they served not God with chearfulness in the abundance of all things, He made them serve their enemies in the want of all things.

Ezekiel 4:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 4:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 4:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 4:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 4:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 4:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 4:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 4:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 4:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 4:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 4:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 4:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 4:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes