Ezekiel 24:23; Leviticus 26:39
(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...
consume away , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:39 ). Compare Ezekiel 24:23 . Eze 24:33. to ("pine away "). App-92.
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 [1...
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 wi...
§ 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...
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...
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 f...
REFLECTIONS READER! amidst many very sweet and profitable subjects suggested to our contemplation by the several types in this Chapter, I feel my mi...
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...
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 st...
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 sup...
The Representation of a Famine. B. C. 595....
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...
‘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, a...
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
that they may want bread and water, be in dire need of the food barely sufficing for their daily needs, and be astonied one with another, with the...
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 thi...
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.