#Ezekiel 4

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized

1 "And you, son of man, take a tile to yourself, and lay it before you, and portray on it the city Jerusalem. 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mound against it. Also set the camp against it, and set battering rams against it all around. 3 And take an iron griddle to yourself, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. And set your face toward it, and it shall be under attack. And you shall set a battle against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Also lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number of days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have fulfilled them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; a day for a year; a day for a year, I have set it upon you. 7 And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay cords on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to another until you have ended the days of your siege.

9 Take also to yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it. 10 And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11 You shall also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes in their sight, and you shall bake it with dung of the excrement of man." 13 And the LORD said, "Even so shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations, where I will drive them." 14 Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been defiled. For from my youth up, even till now, I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither did there come any unclean flesh into my mouth." 15 Then He said to me, "Lo, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread with it." 16 And He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they shall eat bread by weight, and with care. And they shall drink water by measure, and in silence, 17 So that they may lack bread and water, and be appalled with one another, and waste away for their iniquity." — Ezekiel 4 | A Faithful Version (AFV) Holy Bible, A Faithful Version © 2020 A Faithful Version. All Rights Reserved. Cross References: Genesis 19:3; Genesis 25:34; Exodus 9:32; Exodus 22:31; Leviticus 10:17; Leviticus 16:22; Leviticus 26:26; Leviticus 26:39; Numbers 14:34; 2 Samuel 20:15; Isaiah 8:18; Isaiah 20:2-3; Isaiah 36:12; Jeremiah 13:1; Jeremiah 32:9; Ezekiel 3:25; Ezekiel 21:2; Ezekiel 24:23; Ezekiel 45:12; Daniel 1:8; Daniel 9:24; Daniel 11:17; Hosea 9:3; Luke 19:43; Acys 10:14; Revelation 6:5; Revelation 11:2-3

[psalmonesermons]

Insights into Ezekiel 4

Chapter 4:1-17 The Siege of Jerusalem Portrayed

The unrighteous Jews thought that Jerusalem would be safe since the Lord’s Holy Temple was there. God gives them two warnings through Ezekiel of exceedingly tough times ahead for the Israelites. In the prophetic enactments of Ezekiel the prophet represents God Himself working invisibly behind the scenes but instigating the calamities coming on the unrighteous Jews.

1 “You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem. 2 Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around. 3 Moreover take for yourself an iron plate and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you

shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

The Lord now instructs Ezekiel to take a clay brick and draw on it a model of Jerusalem. Ezekiel is further instructed to add details to the model including siege walls, an attack mound, an enemy encampment and battering rams being deployed against the city walls. Ezekiel also sets up an iron wall between him and the model of the city showing how isolated the city would become. The Lord then commands Ezekiel to set his face against the city laying siege to the model as a picture of how God was about to judge the Israelites.

4 “Lie also on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year.

The next warning sign to be given by the prophet is that he is told to lie down on his left side for 390 days signifying this is how God feels bearing the sins of his people. When this time has elapsed, he must do another forty days this time on his right side and for the people of Judah. Each day that Ezekiel lies on his side represents one year of God’s judgement on the Israelites based in Jerusalem and on the tribe of Judah. The significance of the days is that the 390 represents the years of the upcoming exile for the Israelites and the 40 days representing 40 years in exile for the Judahites. It is of note that the total exile comes to 430 years the exact same period the Israelites were held captive in Egypt.

7 “Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8 And surely, I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.

Ezekiel is to set his face against the model and prophesy against Jerusalem And will be unable to change his posture whilst the days of his lying down are to be completed.

9 “Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. 10 And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11 You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight.”

The meaning of this poor bread portion for Ezekiel indicates there will be a serious shortage of food upcoming for the Israelites and not only a shortage but the bread would be defiled in some way. During his 430 days of lying on his side the prophet is only allowed inadequate quality starvation rations of bread and water.

13 Then the Lord said, “So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.”

God is showing the Jews how unclean their sins are to Him feeding them unclean food for their unclean hearts. Jerusalem is going to be emptied of people in what will then be a third exile from Jerusalem, and they will end up eating starvation rations that are unclean in a foreign exile.

14 So I said, “Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth.”

15 Then He said to me, “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.”

The prophet cannot bare to eat unclean bread cooked over human excrement as it would be unclean. The Lord concedes this point and allows him to cook over cow dung.

16 Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, surely, I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.

Jerusalem is fast heading for a siege with only siege rations of bread and water available to them. Though the rations are short ironically there will be plenty of fear and terror about and the inhabitants will start blaming each other for the calamities knocking on their door. Their sins will surely catch up to them.

Amen

Personal prayer

[laurelwright]

Yeast Bread - Bread Machine Ezekiel Bread Kneaded in a bread machine before baking, this whole-grain Ezekiel Bread is textured with millet, rye, wheat germ, lentils, and barley.

[kdmiller55]

Trust and Obey

9 “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. 10 And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. 11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day…

[to-be-a-dreamer]

Just finished The Librarians and, loved it, truly, such a good show and I will be obsessing over all the characters for the foreseeable future and watching the sequel series when it comes out but I have a Bone To Pick with that season 4 finale because WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY TIME TRAVELED THE ENTIRE SEASON OUT OF EXISTANCE???

The LiTs don't meet Ezekiel's mother and go on the most sibling-coded mission of their entire lives???

The team doesn't see Flynn actively choose his family over the library, even when his literal hero is telling him to do otherwise???

They never go to the team building camp???

Cassandra never goes to that "safest town in America" place and leads an entire community to face their fear???

Stone and Ezekiel don't get possessed by the spirits of two brothers whose love for each other ended a decades-long feud in the middle of a war specifically because the brothers knew they loved each other enough to make the same choice???

JENKINS DOESN'T JOIN A DND PARTY????????

Like yeah, Eve and Flynn remember and I guess they could have told them all but you're telling me none of the other characters remember the entire SEASON??? This is like when they memory wiped Ezekiel's time loop character development away but on crack I am distraught.

Also I'm actually fascinated by Christian Kane being the only confirmed reprisal how the hell are they planning on explaining everyone else being gone and Stone only being a reoccurring character I'm so afraid

[nano30cm]

two east coast girls and their weird white boys

[arrowheadedbitch]

Eve was in her early 20s when Ezekiel was born btw

[cyrenights]

Lebajoas take on Thailand

[zkretchy]

Fun Fact: I named this file "if i had a wiggly for every time joey played a villain consumed by magic powers beyond their comprehension expressed through green light i'd have way more wigglys than anyone can handle but its weird that it happened twice" because I couldn't get it out of my head so welcome back to art that's specifically funny to only me and combine it with "I'll just do a quick simple drawing" that goes a bit out of hand anyway....eh it happens

[magdalune]

zeke makeover cos i haven't forgotten abt my man !!

[td-tbbg-official]

Hey Chris, are you worried about a certain green-skinned ex-contestant?

“Green-skinned ex-contestant…? Does that ring a bell?”

“I don’t know, have we ever had an alien on the show—? Oh, wait, they’re talking about Ezekiel.”

“Why are they—OH, RIGHT, haha, Ezekiel! Ha, um… Yeah, that guy. The guy who’s a zombie. That Ezekiel. Right. Um… Yeah, I’m definitely… super worried about him coming on the show and ruining everything, haha! How do I turn the camera off?”

coming soon to an ao3 near you.

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[pamsimmerstories]

Morgana made a new friend!

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[morgana]: this place is so cool

[morgana]: what should i do next? l said i should buy something i don’t remember now... i should’ve written down

[morgana]: why can’t i remember the basic?

[???]: hey

[morgana]: ??

[???]: i can help you

[morgana]: i don’t know you

[???]: i’m new here, too. we could figure things out together

[morgana]: i don’t need your help

[???]: are you sure?

[morgana]: yes, weirdo.

[???]: alright then...

[morgana]: *mutters* shit. you need help, morgana...

[morgana]: wait!

[???]: ...

[morgana]: it’s my first time here. i actually need help

[???]: are you going to call me a weirdo again?

[morgana]: probably and i won’t apologize. you looked like a stalker

[???]: *smirks* i guess that’s fair

[morgana]: well, let me introduce myself. i’m morgana goth

[morgana]: *thinking* i think it’s safe if i use only my goth name here at the realm.

[???]: i’m ezekiel :)

let’s find out the stuff you’ll need

[philodendrontrait]

So I met this guy...

Hana ran into this guy from high school, Zeke, at Planet Honey Pop! karaoke (and that nerd was doing his homework 😭). She struck up a conversation with him and invited him to karaoke. They didn't do very well but had a lot of fun!

(And Eunice is trying her best to look interested in Hana's story haha)

[stewiefanumtax]

why did i put some sort of effort into this

[kdmiller55]

The Performance of a Lifetime

The Performance of a Lifetime

1 “And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. 2 And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. 3 And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and…

[bbdoll]