Genesis 18:6
In eastern countries where fuel is scarce the want is supplied by dried cow-dung laid up for the winter. Barley cakes were (and are) baked under ho...
And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it (k) with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. (k) Signifying by this the gre...
(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...
bake it with . bake it upon. Compare Ezekiel 4:15 . man. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14.
This vision properly belongs to the ten tribes, and, for this reason, I have said that God’s vengeance is not to be considered as to the siege...
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. Thou shalt bake it with dung - Drie...
Thou shalt bake, &c.— See Lamentations 4:5 and 1 Samuel 2:8 where the applicableness of the account concerning the frequent burning of dung...
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. Thou shalt bake it with dung...
§ 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 certaint...
Bread thus baked would be unclean ( Leviticus 5:3 ; Leviticus 7:21 ).
As barley cakes. — These were commonly cooked in the hot ashes, hence the especial defilement caused by the fuel required to be used. Against this...
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...
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 Reader will have a better idea of the coarse and scanty fare of the Prophet, if he understands, that this mixed grain not only made the whole unp...
And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes ,.... That is, the bread made of wheat, barley, beans, lentiles, millet, and fitches, was to be made in the...
And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. Ver. 12. And thou shalt eat it a...
The Representation of a Famine. B. C. 595....
As barley cakes: these were delicacies with them when they could temper and make them right, but now these pitiful things should be to these half-s...
“And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you will bake it in their sight with excrement that comes out of a man.” ‘Barley cakes' indicates the poo...
Scanty means of subsistence symbolising punishment (chap. Ezekiel 4:9-17 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 4:9 . The several sorts of vegetable food—...
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 ro...
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 a...
EXPOSITION Prior to any detailed examination of the strange series of acts recorded in this and the following chapter, we are met with the quest...
The Symbols of the Famine
And thou shalt eat it, the food provided for, as barley cakes, baked or roasted in the ashes of his fire, or on stones heated by this fire; and th...
As barley cakes — Because they never had enough to make a loaf with, they eat them as barley cakes. With dung — There was no wood left, nor yet dun...
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.