Ezekiel 4:4-8
1599 Geneva Bible
4 Sleep thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the [a]house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days, that thou shalt sleep upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity according to the number of the days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, sleep again upon thy [b]right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee a day for a year, even a day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt direct thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine [c]arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8 And behold, I will lay [d]bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
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- Ezekiel 4:4 Hereby he represented the idolatry and sin of the ten tribes (for Samaria was on his left hand from Babylon) and how they had remained therein three hundred and ninety years.
- Ezekiel 4:6 Which declared Judah, who had now from the time of Josiah slept in their sins forty years.
- Ezekiel 4:7 In token of a speedy vengeance.
- Ezekiel 4:8 The people should so straightly be besieged, that they should not be able, to turn them.
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