Ezekiel 4:9

Ezekiel 4:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
• New International Version (NIV)“Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.

Context of Ezekiel 4:9

7Then you shall direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it. 8Now behold, I will put ropes around you so that you cannot turn from your one side to your other until you have completed the days of your siege. “But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, 390 days. 10Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. 11The water you drink shall be a sixth of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.

Ezekiel 4:9 word by word

וְאַתָּ֣ה קַח־לְךָ֡ חִטִּ֡ין וּ֠שְׂעֹרִים וּפ֨וֹל וַעֲדָשִׁ֜ים וְדֹ֣חַן וְכֻסְּמִ֗ים וְנָתַתָּ֤ה אוֹתָם֙ בִּכְלִ֣י אֶחָ֔ד וְעָשִׂ֧יתָ אוֹתָ֛ם לְךָ֖ לְלָ֑חֶם מִסְפַּ֨ר הַיָּמִ֜ים אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֣ה׀ שׁוֹכֵ֣ב עַֽל־צִדְּךָ֗ שְׁלֹשׁ־מֵא֧וֹת וְתִשְׁעִ֛ים י֖וֹם תֹּאכֲלֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear

• But as for you, takeלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• wheatחִטָּהchiţţâh · wheatH2406
• barleyשְׂעֹרָהώe‛ôrâh ώe‛ôrâh ώe‛ôr ώe‛ôr · barleyH8184
• beansפּוֹלpôl · beanH6321
• lentilsעֲדָשָׁה‛âdâsh · lentilH5742
• milletדֹּ֫חַןdôchan · milletH1764
• speltכֻּסֶּ֫מֶתkûssemeth · speltH3698
• and putנָתַןnâthan · to give: putH5414
• them in oneאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• vesselכְּלִיkelîy · article/utensilH3627
• and makeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• them into breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• for yourself; you shall eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• it according to the numberמִסְפָּרmispâr · numberH4557
• of the daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• that you lieשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: lay downH7901
• on your sideצַדtsad · sideH6654
• 390שָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
• 390מֵאָהmê'âh mê'yâh · hundredH3967
• 390תִּשְׁעִיםtish‛îym · ninetyH8673

Cross-references for Ezekiel 4:9

• Ezekiel 4:13Then the Lord said, “In this way the sons of Israel will eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will scatter them.”
• Ezekiel 4:5For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their wrongdoing, 390 days; so you shall bear the wrongdoing of the house of Israel.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 4:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Take thou also unto thee wheat - In times of scarcity, it is customary in all countries to mix several kinds of coarser grain with the finer, to make it last the longer. This mashlin, which the prophet is commanded to take, of wheat, barley, beans, lentiles, millet, and fitches, was intended to show how scarce the necessaries of life should be during the siege.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Two things are prefigured in the remainder of this chapter, (1) the hardships of exile, (2) the straitness of a siege. To the people of Israel, separated from the rest of the nations as holy, it was a leading feature in the calamities of their exile that they must be mixed up with other nations, and eat of their food, which to the Jews was a defilement (compare Ezekiel 4:13; Amos 7:17; Daniel 1:8.) Fitches - A species of wheat with shorn ears. In one…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity. Thus was figured the extremity to which the Jews were to be reduced during the siege and captivity. Ezekiel does not plead, Lord, from my youth I have been brought up delicately, and never used to any thing like this; but that he had been brought up…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-17The near-starvation diet of eight ounces of food and a jar of water each day represents siege rations. This reflects a desperate situation where there was not enough of any one type of grain to make a whole loaf.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. wheat ... barley, &c.--Instead of simple flour used for delicate cakes (Ge 18:6), the Jews should have a coarse mixture of six different kinds of grain, such as the poorest alone would eat. fitches--spelt or dhourra. three hundred and ninety--The forty days are omitted, since these latter typify the wilderness period when Israel stood separate from the Gentiles and their pollution, though partially chastened by stint of bread and water (Eze 4:16)…Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 4:9

• Bean
• Fitch
• Instruction
• Lentiles
• Millet
• Rye (Spelt, Rsv)
• Symbols and Similitudes

In the dictionaries

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• Fitches
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• Millet
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• Agabus
• Barley
• Beans
• Food

Commentaries on Ezekiel 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings