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Ezekiel Chapter 4

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EZEKIEL

Ezekiel 4

1“And as for you, son of man, take up for yourself a tablet, and you shall set it before you. And you shall draw upon it the city of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 19:1, Jeremiah 19:15, 1 Samuel 15:27, 1 Samuel 15:28, Jeremiah 13:1
2And you shall set up a blockade against it, and you shall build fortifications, and you shall put together a rampart, and you shall encamp opposite it, and you shall place battering rams around it.
Ezekiel 21:22, Ezekiel 21:22, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 52:4
3And you shall take up for yourself an iron frying pan, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. And harden your face against it, and it shall be under a siege, and you shall surround it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 12:6, Isaiah 8:18, Isaiah 20:3, Ezekiel 12:6, Isaiah 8:18
4And you shall sleep on your left side. And you shall place the iniquities of the house of Israel on it by the number of days that you will sleep on it. And you shall take upon yourself their iniquity.
Leviticus 16:22, Leviticus 16:22, Leviticus 10:17, Ezekiel 4:8, Numbers 18:1
5For I have given to you the years of their iniquity, by the number of the days: three hundred and ninety days. And you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Numbers 14:34, Numbers 14:34, Isaiah 53:6, Isaiah 53:6
6And when you will have completed this, you shall sleep a second time, on your right side, and you shall assume the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days: one day for each year; one day, I say, for each year, have I given to you.
Numbers 14:34, Numbers 14:34, Daniel 12:11, Daniel 12:12, Daniel 9:24
7And you shall turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be extended. And you shall prophesy against it.
Isaiah 52:10, Isaiah 52:10, Ezekiel 21:2, Ezekiel 21:2, Ezekiel 4:3
8Behold, I have surrounded you with chains. And you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other side, until you have completed the days of your siege.
Ezekiel 3:25, Ezekiel 3:25
9And you shall take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and vetch. And you shall set them in one vessel, and you shall make for yourself bread by the number of days that you will sleep upon your side: three hundred and ninety days shall you shall eat from it.
Isaiah 28:25, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:13, Isaiah 28:25, Ezekiel 4:16
10But your food, which you will eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day. You shall eat it from time to time.
Leviticus 26:26, Leviticus 26:26, Ezekiel 14:13, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 45:12
11And you shall drink water by measure, one sixth part of a hin. You shall drink it from time to time.
Isaiah 5:13, Ezekiel 4:16, John 3:34, Isaiah 5:13, Ezekiel 4:16
12And you shall eat it like barley bread baked under ashes. And you shall cover it, in their sight, with the dung that goes out of a man.”
Isaiah 36:12, Isaiah 36:12, Genesis 18:6, Genesis 18:6
13And the Lord said: “So shall the sons of Israel eat their bread, polluted among the Gentiles, to whom I will cast them out.”
Hosea 9:3, Hosea 9:4, Daniel 1:8, Hosea 9:3, Hosea 9:4
14And I said: “Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my infancy even until now, I have not eaten anything that has died of itself, nor that which has been torn up by beasts, and no unclean flesh at all has entered into my mouth.”
Acts 10:14, Acts 10:14, Ezekiel 20:49, Ezekiel 9:8, Ezekiel 20:49
15And he said to me: “Behold, I have given to you cow manure in place of human dung, and you shall make your bread with it.”
16And he said to me: “Son of man, behold: I will crush the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety. And they will drink water by measure and with anguish.
Ezekiel 5:16, Ezekiel 5:16, Isaiah 3:1, Isaiah 3:1, Leviticus 26:26
17So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities.”
Ezekiel 24:23, Leviticus 26:39, Ezekiel 24:23, Leviticus 26:39, Ezekiel 33:10

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