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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 4:12 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Eze 4:12 |
Strong Concordance |
And thou shalt eat [0398] it as barley [08184] cakes [05692], and thou shalt bake [05746] it with dung [01561] that cometh out [06627] of man [0120], in their sight [05869]. |
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King James |
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
dung--as fuel; so the Arabs use beasts' dung, wood fuel being scarce. But to use human dung so implies the most cruel necessity. It was in violation of the law (Deu 14:3; Deu 23:12-14); it must therefore have been done only in vision. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
In eastern countries where fuel is scarce the want is supplied by dried cow-dung laid up for the winter. Barley cakes were (and are) baked under hot ashes without an oven. The dung here is to be burned to ashes, and the ashes so employed. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
As barley cakes - Because they never had enough to make a loaf with, they eat them as barley cakes. With dung - There was no wood left, nor yet dung of other creatures. This also was represented in a vision. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Thou shalt bake it with dung - Dried ox and cow dung is a common fuel in the east; and with this, for want of wood and coals, they are obliged to prepare their food. Indeed, dried excrement of every kind is gathered. Here, the prophet is to prepare his bread with dry human excrement. And when we know that this did not come in contact with the bread, and was only used to warm the plate, (see Eze 4:3), on which the bread was laid over the fire, it removes all the horror and much of the disgust. This was required to show the extreme degree of wretchedness to which they should be exposed; for, not being able to leave the city to collect the dried excrements of beasts, the inhabitants during the siege would be obliged, literally, to use dried human ordure for fuel. The very circumstances show that this was the plain fact of the case. However, we find that the prophet was relieved from using this kind of fuel, for cow's dung was substituted at his request. See Eze 4:15. |
12 Thou shalt have a place also [03027] without [02351] the camp [04264], whither thou shalt go forth [03318] abroad [02351]:
13 And thou shalt have a paddle [03489] upon thy weapon [0240]; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease [03427] thyself abroad [02351], thou shalt dig [02658] therewith, and shalt turn back [07725] and cover [03680] that which cometh [06627] from thee:
14 For the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] walketh [01980] in the midst [07130] of thy camp [04264], to deliver [05337] thee, and to give up [05414] thine enemies [0341] before [06440] thee; therefore shall thy camp [04264] be holy [06918]: that he see [07200] no unclean [06172] thing [01697] in thee, and turn away [07725] from thee [0310].
3 Thou shalt not eat [0398] any abominable thing [08441].
15 Then he said [0559] unto me, Lo [07200], I have given [05414] thee cow's [01241] dung [06832] [06832] for man's [0120] dung [01561], and thou shalt prepare [06213] thy bread [03899] therewith.
3 Moreover take [03947] thou unto thee an iron [01270] pan [04227], and set [05414] it for a wall [07023] of iron [01270] between thee and the city [05892]: and set [03559] thy face [06440] against it, and it shall be besieged [04692], and thou shalt lay siege [06696] against it. This shall be a sign [0226] to the house [01004] of Israel [03478].