Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
iron pan—the divine decree as to the Chaldean army investing the city.
set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city—Ezekiel, in the person of God, represents the wall of separation between him and the people as one of iron: and the Chaldean investing army. His instrument of separating them from him, as one impossible to burst through.
set . . . face against it—inexorably (Psalms 34:16). The exiles envied their brethren remaining in Jerusalem, but exile is better than the straitness of a siege.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 4:3:
Ezekiel 4:5
1 Corinthians 14:22
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