Ezekiel 4:1

And you, son of man, take you a brick, and you shall set it before your face, and shall portray on it the city, even Jerusalem.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

In Context

2And you shall besiege it, and build works against it, and throw up a mound round about it, and pitch camps against it, and set up engines round about.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 15:27And Samuel turned his face to depart, and Saul caught hold of the skirt of his + 15:27 Gr. doublet, or mantle. garment, and tore it.

Isaiah 20:2then the Lord spoke to Esaias the son of Amos, saying, Go and take the sackcloth off your loins, and loose your sandals from off your feet, and do thus, going naked and barefoot.

Jeremiah 6:6For thus says the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her.

Jeremiah 18:2Jeremias, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there you shall hear my words.

Jeremiah 32:31even upon the extreme part of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, he is pleading with all flesh, and the ungodly are given to the sword, says the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:1

Ezekiel was now among the captives in Babylon, but they there had Jerusalem still upon their hearts; the pious captives looked towards it with an eye of faith (as Daniel vi. 10 ), the presumptuous ones looked towards it with an eye of pride, and flattered themselves with a conceit that they should shortly return thither again; those that remained corresponded with the captives, and, it is likely, bouyed them up with hopes that all would be well yet, as long as Jerusalem was standing in its strength, and perhaps… Read the whole commentary →

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