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Ezekiel 4:9 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 4 · verse 9
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.Ezekiel 4:9 · King James Version
Ezekiel 4:9 in context
7Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- lentilesʻâdâsha lentilH5742 →
- fitcheskuççemethspeltH3698 →
- barleysᵉʻôrâhbarleyH8184 →
- milletdôchanmilletH1764 →
- vesselkᵉlîysomething preparedH3627 →
- wheatchiṭṭâhwheat, whether the grain or the plantH2406 →
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The best exposition of this part of Ezekiel's prediction of Jerusalem's desolation is Jeremiah's lamentation of it, Lam 4:3, Lam 4:4, etc., and Lam 4:10, where he pathetically describes the terrible famine that was in Jerusalem during the siege and the sad effects of it. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-17