lay. set, or place. Hebrew sum. See note on Ezekiel 4:1.
according to the number, &c. Reference to Pentateuch, (Numbers 14:34). This is no evidence that in prophetic scriptures there is. "year. day "theory. These exceptions prove the opposite rule. In all of them "day" means "day", and "year" means "year".
bear their iniquity. A technical expression belonging to the Pentateuch. to endure the punishment due to iniquity, or sin. See Exodus 28:38, Exo 28:93.Leviticus 5:1; Leviticus 5:17; Leviticus 7:18; Leviticus 10:17; Leviticus 16:22; Leviticus 17:16; Leviticus 19:16; Leviticus 20:17; Leviticus 20:19; Leviticus 20:20 (sin); Leviticus 22:9 (sin), Leviticus 22:16; Leviticus 24:15 (sin). Numbers 5:31; Numbers 9:13 (sin); 14, 33 (whoredoms), 34; Ezekiel 18:1; Ezekiel 18:1; Ezekiel 18:22 (sin), 23, 32 (sin); Ezekiel 30:15. Outside the Pentateuch, only in Ezekiel 4:4; Ezekiel 4:5; Ezekiel 4:6; Ezekiel 16:54 (shame); Ezekiel 18:19; Ezekiel 18:20; Ezekiel 18:20; Ezekiel 23:49 (sin); Ezekiel 32:24 (shame), 25 (shame), 30 (shame); Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 44:12. and in Isaiah 53:4; Isaiah 53:11; Isaiah 53:12, where the verb is sabal (not nasa, as in Pentateuch), and Lamentations 5:7.
iniquity. Hebrew. `avon. App-44. Put by Figure of speech metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the punishment brought about in consequence of it.