Ezekiel 4:8

And lo! I have laid upon thee-bands,—and thou shalt not turn thee from thy one side to thine other, until thou have ended the days of thy siege.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And, 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.

In Context

7Thus then unto the siege of Jerusalem, shalt thou direct thy face, with thine arm made bare,—so shalt thou prophesy against it.

9Thou, therefore, take thee wheat and barley and peas and lentils and millet and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make them ready for thee as bread,—during the number of days which thou art lying on thy side. a hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat it;

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Cross References

Ezekiel 5:2A third part in the fire, shalt thou burn in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled,—and thou shalt take a third part, thou shalt smite it with the cuting instrument round about it, and a third part, shalt thou scatter to the wind, and, a sword, will I, make bare after them;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:2-9

The Representation of a Siege. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This… Read the whole commentary →

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