A Sign of Jerusalem’s Siege
“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem. Hos 1:2-91Ki 11:30-311Sa 15:27-28Amo 3:2Ezk 12:3-16Ezk 5:1-17Hos 12:10Hos 3:1-5 Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides. Ezk 21:22Jer 6:6Jer 39:1-2Jer 52:4Luk 19:42-44 Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. Ezk 12:6Isa 20:3Isa 8:18Ezk 12:11Ezk 24:24-27Heb 2:4Jer 39:1Lev 2:5
Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side. Lev 16:22Ezk 4:8Isa 53:11-12Lev 10:17Num 18:11Pe 2:242Ki 17:21-23Ezk 4:5 For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. Num 14:34Isa 53:6
When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year. Num 14:34Dan 12:11-12Dan 9:24-26Rev 11:2-3Rev 13:5Rev 12:14Rev 9:15 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it. Isa 52:10Ezk 21:2Ezk 4:3Ezk 6:2
Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege. Ezk 3:25
The Defiled Bread
But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side. Ezk 4:13Ezk 4:16Isa 28:25 You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food 1to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times. Lev 26:26Deu 28:51-68Ezk 14:13Ezk 4:16Ezk 45:12Isa 3:1
You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water 2to drink, and you are to drink it at set times. Ezk 4:16Isa 5:13Jhn 3:34 And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” Isa 36:12Gen 18:6
Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.” Dan 1:8Hos 9:3-4
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. 3 From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.” Act 10:14Deu 14:3Ezk 20:49Ezk 9:8Exo 22:31Isa 65:4Jer 1:6Lev 17:15
“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply 4of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. Ezk 5:16Isa 3:1Lev 26:26Ezk 12:18-19Ezk 4:10-11Psa 105:16Ezk 14:13Lam 1:11 So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity. Ezk 24:23Lev 26:39Ezk 33:10