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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 4:5 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
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| Eze 4:5 |
Strong Concordance |
For I have laid [05414] upon thee the years [08141] of their iniquity [05771], according to the number [04557] of the days [03117], three [07969] hundred [03967] and ninety [08673] days [03117]: so shalt thou bear [05375] the iniquity [05771] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478]. |
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King James |
For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. |
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] |
| three hundred and ninety days--The three hundred ninety years of punishment appointed for Israel, and forty for Judah, cannot refer to the siege of Jerusalem. That siege is referred to in Eze 4:1-3, and in a sense restricted to the literal siege, but comprehending the whole train of punishment to be inflicted for their sin; therefore we read here merely of its sore pressure, not of its result. The sum of three hundred ninety and forty years is four hundred thirty, a period famous in the history of the covenant-people, being that of their sojourn in Egypt (Exo 12:40-41; Gal 3:17). The forty alludes to the forty years in the wilderness. Elsewhere (Deu 28:68; Hos 9:3), God threatened to bring them back to Egypt, which must mean, not Egypt literally, but a bondage as bad as that one in Egypt. So now God will reduce them to a kind of new Egyptian bondage to the world: Israel, the greater transgressor, for a longer period than Judah (compare Eze 20:35-38). Not the whole of the four hundred thirty years of the Egypt state is appointed to Israel; but this shortened by the forty years of the wilderness sojourn, to imply, that a way is open to their return to life by their having the Egypt state merged into that of the wilderness; that is, by ceasing from idolatry and seeking in their sifting and sore troubles, through God's covenant, a restoration to righteousness and peace [FAIRBAIRN]. The three hundred ninety, in reference to the sin of Israel, was also literally true, being the years from the setting up of the calves by Jeroboam (Kg1 12:20-33), that is, from 975 to 583 B.C.: about the year of the Babylonians captivity; and perhaps the forty of Judah refers to that part of Manasseh's fifty-five year's reign in which he had not repented, and which, we are expressly told, was the cause of God's removal of Judah, notwithstanding Josiah's reformation (Kg1 21:10-16; Kg2 23:26-27). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| According to the number of the days - Or, "to be to thee as a number of days (even as)" etc. Compare the margin reference. Some conceive that these "days" were the years during which Israel and Judah sinned, and date in the case of Israel from Jeroboam's rebellion to the time at which Ezekiel wrote (circa 390 years); and in the case of Judah from Josiah's reformation. But it seems more in accordance with the other "signs," to suppose that they represent not that which had been, but that which shall be. The whole number of years is 430 Eze 4:5-6, the number assigned of old for the affliction of the descendants of Abraham Gen 15:13; Exo 12:40. The "forty years" apportioned to Judah Eze 4:6, bring to mind the 40 years passed in the wilderness; and these were years not only of punishment, but also of discipline and preparatory to restoration, so Ezekiel would intimate the difference between the punishments of Israel and of Judah to be this, that the one would be of much longer duration with no definite hope of recovery, but the other would be imposed with the express purpose of the renewal of mercy. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| I have laid - I have pointed out the number of years wherein apostate Israel sinned against me, and I did bear with them. Years - These years probably began at Solomon's falling to idolatry, in the twenty - seventh year of his reign, and ended in the fifth of Zedekiah's captivity. |
26 Notwithstanding the LORD [03068] turned [07725] not from the fierceness [02740] of his great [01419] wrath [0639], wherewith his anger [0639] was kindled [02734] against Judah [03063], because of all the provocations [03708] that Manasseh [04519] had provoked [03707] him withal.
27 And the LORD [03068] said [0559], I will remove [05493] Judah [03063] also out of my sight [06440], as I have removed [05493] Israel [03478], and will cast off [03988] this city [05892] Jerusalem [03389] which I have chosen [0977], and the house [01004] of which I said [0559], My name [08034] shall be there.
10 And set [03427] two [08147] men [0582], sons [01121] of Belial [01100], before him, to bear witness [05749] against him, saying [0559], Thou didst blaspheme [01288] God [0430] and the king [04428]. And then carry him out [03318], and stone [05619] him, that he may die [04191].
11 And the men [0582] of his city [05892], even the elders [02205] and the nobles [02715] who were the inhabitants [03427] in his city [05892], did [06213] as Jezebel [0348] had sent [07971] unto them, and as it was written [03789] in the letters [05612] which she had sent [07971] unto them.
12 They proclaimed [07121] a fast [06685], and set [03427] Naboth [05022] on high [07218] among the people [05971].
13 And there came [0935] in two [08147] men [0582], children [01121] of Belial [01100], and sat [03427] before him: and the men [0582] of Belial [01100] witnessed [05749] against him, even against Naboth [05022], in the presence of the people [05971], saying [0559], Naboth [05022] did blaspheme [01288] God [0430] and the king [04428]. Then they carried him forth [03318] out [02351] of the city [05892], and stoned [05619] him with stones [068], that he died [04191].
14 Then they sent [07971] to Jezebel [0348], saying [0559], Naboth [05022] is stoned [05619], and is dead [04191].
15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel [0348] heard [08085] that Naboth [05022] was stoned [05619], and was dead [04191], that Jezebel [0348] said [0559] to Ahab [0256], Arise [06965], take possession [03423] of the vineyard [03754] of Naboth [05022] the Jezreelite [03158], which he refused [03985] to give [05414] thee for money [03701]: for Naboth [05022] is not alive [02416], but dead [04191].
16 And it came to pass, when Ahab [0256] heard [08085] that Naboth [05022] was dead [04191], that Ahab [0256] rose up [06965] to go down [03381] to the vineyard [03754] of Naboth [05022] the Jezreelite [03158], to take possession [03423] of it.
20 And it came to pass, when all Israel [03478] heard [08085] that Jeroboam [03379] was come again [07725], that they sent [07971] and called [07121] him unto the congregation [05712], and made him king [04427] over all Israel [03478]: there was none that followed [0310] the house [01004] of David [01732], but [02108] the tribe [07626] of Judah [03063] only.
21 And when Rehoboam [07346] was come [0935] to Jerusalem [03389], he assembled [06950] all the house [01004] of Judah [03063], with the tribe [07626] of Benjamin [01144], an hundred [03967] and fourscore [08084] thousand [0505] chosen men [0977], which were warriors [06213] [04421], to fight [03898] against the house [01004] of Israel [03478], to bring [07725] the kingdom [04410] again [07725] to Rehoboam [07346] the son [01121] of Solomon [08010].
22 But the word [01697] of God [0430] came unto Shemaiah [08098] the man [0376] of God [0430], saying [0559],
23 Speak [0559] unto Rehoboam [07346], the son [01121] of Solomon [08010], king [04428] of Judah [03063], and unto all the house [01004] of Judah [03063] and Benjamin [01144], and to the remnant [03499] of the people [05971], saying [0559],
24 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068], Ye shall not go up [05927], nor fight [03898] against your brethren [0251] the children [01121] of Israel [03478]: return [07725] every man [0376] to his house [01004]; for this thing [01697] is [01961] from me. They hearkened [08085] therefore to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068], and returned [07725] to depart [03212], according to the word [01697] of the LORD [03068].
25 Then Jeroboam [03379] built [01129] Shechem [07927] in mount [02022] Ephraim [0669], and dwelt [03427] therein; and went out [03318] from thence, and built [01129] Penuel [06439].
26 And Jeroboam [03379] said [0559] in his heart [03820], Now shall the kingdom [04467] return [07725] to the house [01004] of David [01732]:
27 If this people [05971] go up [05927] to do [06213] sacrifice [02077] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068] at Jerusalem [03389], then shall the heart [03820] of this people [05971] turn again [07725] unto their lord [0113], even unto Rehoboam [07346] king [04428] of Judah [03063], and they shall kill [02026] me, and go again [07725] to Rehoboam [07346] king [04428] of Judah [03063].
28 Whereupon the king [04428] took counsel [03289], and made [06213] two [08147] calves [05695] of gold [02091], and said [0559] unto them, It is too much [07227] for you to go up [05927] to Jerusalem [03389]: behold thy gods [0430], O Israel [03478], which brought thee up [05927] out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
29 And he set [07760] the one [0259] in Bethel [01008], and the other [0259] put [05414] he in Dan [01835].
30 And this thing [01697] became a sin [02403]: for the people [05971] went [03212] to worship before [06440] the one [0259], even unto Dan [01835].
31 And he made [06213] an house [01004] of high places [01116], and made [06213] priests [03548] of the lowest [07098] of the people [05971], which were not of the sons [01121] of Levi [03878].
32 And Jeroboam [03379] ordained [06213] a feast [02282] in the eighth [08066] month [02320], on the fifteenth [02568] [06240] day [03117] of the month [02320], like unto the feast [02282] that is in Judah [03063], and he offered [05927] upon the altar [04196]. So did [06213] he in Bethel [01008], sacrificing [02076] unto the calves [05695] that he had made [06213]: and he placed [05975] in Bethel [01008] the priests [03548] of the high places [01116] which he had made [06213].
33 So he offered [05927] upon the altar [04196] which he had made [06213] in Bethel [01008] the fifteenth [02568] [06240] day [03117] of the eighth [08066] month [02320], even in the month [02320] which he had devised [0908] of his own heart [03820]; and ordained [06213] a feast [02282] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478]: and he offered [05927] upon the altar [04196], and burnt incense [06999].
35 And I will bring [0935] you into the wilderness [04057] of the people [05971], and there will I plead [08199] with you face [06440] to face [06440].
36 Like as I pleaded [08199] with your fathers [01] in the wilderness [04057] of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], so will I plead [08199] with you, saith [05002] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].
37 And I will cause you to pass [05674] under the rod [07626], and I will bring [0935] you into the bond [04562] of the covenant [01285]:
38 And I will purge out [01305] from among you the rebels [04775], and them that transgress [06586] against me: I will bring them forth [03318] out of the country [0776] where they sojourn [04033], and they shall not enter [0935] into the land [0127] of Israel [03478]: and ye shall know [03045] that I am the LORD [03068].
3 They shall not dwell [03427] in the LORD'S [03068] land [0776]; but Ephraim [0669] shall return [07725] to Egypt [04714], and they shall eat [0398] unclean [02931] things in Assyria [0804].
68 And the LORD [03068] shall bring [07725] thee into Egypt [04714] again [07725] with ships [0591], by the way [01870] whereof I spake [0559] unto thee, Thou shalt see [07200] it no more again [03254]: and there ye shall be sold [04376] unto your enemies [0341] for bondmen [05650] and bondwomen [08198], and no man shall buy [07069] you.
17 And [1161] this [5124] I say [3004], that the covenant [1242], that was confirmed before [4300] of [5259] God [2316] in [1519] Christ [5547], the law [3551], which was [1096] four hundred [5071] and [2532] thirty [5144] years [2094] after [3326], cannot [3756] disannul [208], that [1519] it should make [2673] the promise [1860] of none effect [2673].
40 Now the sojourning [04186] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], who dwelt [03427] in Egypt [04714], was four [0702] hundred [03967] [08141] and thirty [07970] years [08141].
41 And it came to pass at the end [07093] of the four [0702] hundred [03967] [08141] and thirty [07970] years [08141], even the selfsame [06106] day [03117] it came to pass, that all the hosts [06635] of the LORD [03068] went out [03318] from the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
1 Thou also, son [01121] of man [0120], take [03947] thee a tile [03843], and lay [05414] it before [06440] thee, and pourtray [02710] upon it the city [05892], even Jerusalem [03389]:
2 And lay [05414] siege [04692] against it, and build [01129] a fort [01785] against it, and cast [08210] a mount [05550] against it; set [05414] the camp [04264] also against it, and set [07760] battering rams [03733] against it round about [05439].
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].
6 And when thou hast accomplished [03615] them [0428], lie [07901] again [08145] on thy right [03233] [03227] side [06654], and thou shalt bear [05375] the iniquity [05771] of the house [01004] of Judah [03063] forty [0705] days [03117]: I have appointed [05414] thee each day [03117] [03117] for a year [08141] [08141].
40 Now the sojourning [04186] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478], who dwelt [03427] in Egypt [04714], was four [0702] hundred [03967] [08141] and thirty [07970] years [08141].
13 And he said [0559] unto Abram [087], Know [03045] of a surety [03045] that thy seed [02233] shall be a stranger [01616] in a land [0776] that is not theirs, and shall serve [05647] them; and they shall afflict [06031] them four [0702] hundred [03967] years [08141];
5 For I have laid [05414] upon thee the years [08141] of their iniquity [05771], according to the number [04557] of the days [03117], three [07969] hundred [03967] and ninety [08673] days [03117]: so shalt thou bear [05375] the iniquity [05771] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478].
6 And when thou hast accomplished [03615] them [0428], lie [07901] again [08145] on thy right [03233] [03227] side [06654], and thou shalt bear [05375] the iniquity [05771] of the house [01004] of Judah [03063] forty [0705] days [03117]: I have appointed [05414] thee each day [03117] [03117] for a year [08141] [08141].