Ezekiel 4:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Moreover take thou unto thee an irona pan, 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. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. ”

Ezekiel 4:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An iron pan - Another figure in the coming siege. On Assyrian sculptures from Nimroud and Kouyunjik there are sieges of cities with “forts, mounts, and rams;” and together with these we see a kin...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Moreover take thou to thee an (a) iron pan, 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. This...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 4, 5. Four Symbols, Prophetic of the Coming Doom of Jerusalem. Ezekiel 4:1-3 . (A) The Siege of Jerusalem But if Ezekiel may not speak, he is a prophet still, preaching, if not by the...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

pan . a flat plate, as used for baking. set thy face . Ref to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 17:10 ; Leviticus 20:3 ; Leviticus 20:5 ; Leviticus 20:6 ; Leviticus 26:17 ). App-92. Compare Jeremiah 21:...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, 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. This...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Take thou unto thee an iron pan— The prophet takes to him an iron pot or vessel, such as fire was wont to be carried in before the Chaldean and Persian generals, when they went to battle. And he p...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, 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. This...
Ezekiel 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - 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 4:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is somewhat very striking in the ministry of Ezekiel, different from that of other Prophets for the most part. He was not only to deliver God's truths by word of mouth: but also to represent by...
Ezekiel 4:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan ,.... Which Kimchi thinks, for its metal, represented the hardness of the hearts of the people of Israel; and, for its colour, the blackness of their sins: t...
Ezekiel 4:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, 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. This [...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And lay siege against it Make a portraiture of a siege, and of such warlike instruments as are used in sieges, figuring every thing just as when an army lies before a place with an intention of tak...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Representation of a Siege. B. C. 595. 1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

An iron pan, to signify the hardness and obstinacy of the besiegers; probably a frying-pan, on the plain part of which the the bearing the portrait of Jerusalem lying, the iron edges or brims compa...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“You also, son of man, you take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem, and lay siege against it, and build forts against it. Set camps also against it, and plant bat...
Ezekiel 4:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

3. FIRST INSTRUCTIONS BY SIGNS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION (Chaps. Ezekiel 4:1 to Ezekiel 5:17 ). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel is ordered to carry out certain specified processes. Their purport is exp...
Ezekiel 4:3 - 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 4:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Take thee a tile. The ministry of symbolism In this chapter there begins a series of symbols utterly impossible of modern interpretation. This ministry of symbolism has still a place in all pro...
Ezekiel 4:3 - 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 4:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Symbol of the Siege
Ezekiel 4:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 12:11 ; Ezekiel 12:6 ; Ezekiel 24:24-27 ; Hebrews 2:4 ; Isaiah 20:3 ; Isaiah 8:18 ; Leviticus 2:5 ; Luke 2:34
Ezekiel 4:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A wall — That it may resemble a wall of iron, for as impregnable as such a wall, shall the resolution and patience of the Chaldeans be.

Ezekiel 4:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 4:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 4:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 4:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 4:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 4:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 4:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 4:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 4:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 4:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 4:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 4:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 4:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 4:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes