Ezekiel 24:22
Then shall ye do, as I have done.— The beard, shall ye not cover, And the bread of other men:, shall ye not eat;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
In Context
Cross References
Job 27:15His survivors, by pestilence, shall come to the grave, and, his widows, shall not weep;
Jeremiah 16:4Of deaths from diseases, shall they die, They shall not be lamented, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they serve,—Yea by sword and by famine, shall they be consumed, And, their dead bodies shall become, food—To the bird of the heavens, and To the beast of the earth.
Ezekiel 24:16Son of Man Behold me! taking away from thee the delight of thine eyes, with a stroke,- But thou shall not lament Neither shalt thou weep, Neither shall come—thy tears:
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:16-27
The Death of the Prophet's Wife; A Sign of Jerusalem's Ruin. ( b. c. 590.) 15 Also the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at… Read the whole commentary →