Eze 4:1

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Eze 4:1 Under the type of a siege is shewn the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity.

Eze 4:9 By the provision of the siege, is shewn the hardness of the famine.

take.

Ezek 5:1-17; Ezek 12:3-16; 1Sam 15:27; 1Sam 15:28; 1Kgs 11:30; 1Kgs 11:31; Isa 20:2-4

Jer 13:1-14; Jer 18:2-12; Jer 19:1-15; Jer 25:15-38; Jer 27:2-22; Hos 1:2-9; Hos 3:1-5 Ho 12:10

a tile.

[Leb�n� ,] {levainah,} generally denotes a brick, and Palladius informs us that the bricks in common use among the ancients were "two feet long, one foot broad, and four inches thick;" and on such a surface the whole siege might be easily pourtrayed.

Perhaps, however, it may here denote a flat tile, like a Roman brick, which were commonly used for tablets, as we learn from Pliny, Hist. Nat. 1. vii. c. 57. even.

Jer 6:6; Jer 32:31; Amos 3:2