Ezekiel 4:16

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14 So I said, ^a“Ah, Lord God! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten ^bwhat died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has ^cabominable flesh ever come into my mouth.”

15 Then He said to me, “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.”

16 Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, surely I will cut off the ^asupply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall ^beat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall ^cdrink water by measure and with dread,

17 that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and ^awaste away because of their iniquity.

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Adam Clarke

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Ezekiel 4:16

I will break the staff of bread - They shall be besieged till all the bread is consumed, till the famine becomes absolute; see II Kings 25:3 : "And on the ninth of the fourth month, the famine prevailed in the city; and There Was No Bread for the people of the land." All this was accurately foretold, and as accurately fulfilled.

Abp. Newcome on II Kings 25:6 observes: "This number of years will take us back, with sufficient exactness, from the year in which Jerusalem was sacked by Nebuchadnezzar to the first year of Jeroboam' s reign, when national idolatry began in Israel. The period of days seems to predict the duration of the siege by the Babylonians, II Kings 25:9, deducting from the year five months and twenty-nine days, mentioned II Kings 25:1-4, the time during which the Chaldeans were on their expedition against the Egyptians; see Jeremiah 37:6." This amounts nearly to the same as that mentioned above.

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