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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Yehezkiel 4:15

Lalu firman-Nya kepadaku: "Lihat, kalau begitu Aku mengizinkan engkau memakai kotoran lembu ganti kotoran manusia dan bakarlah rotimu di atasnya."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bread;   Instruction;   Prayer;   Symbols and Similitudes;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Dung;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Bullock;   Dung;   Fuel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Agriculture;   Bread;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beyond the River;   Cooking and Heating;   Dung;   Ezekiel;   Gestures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fuel;   House;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bull, Bullock,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dung;   Fuel;   House;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Church Fathers;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu firman-Nya kepadaku: "Lihat, kalau begitu Aku mengizinkan engkau memakai kotoran lembu ganti kotoran manusia dan bakarlah rotimu di atasnya."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu firman-Nya kepadaku: Bahwasanya Aku memberikan dikau tahi lembu akan ganti tahi manusia, hendaklah engkau sediakan rotimu dengan dia.

Contextual Overview

9 Wherfore take vnto thee wheate, barlye, beanes, lintils, millot, and fetches, and put these together in a vessell, and make thee loaues of bread thereof, according to the number of the dayes that thou must lye vpon thy side, that thou mayest haue bread to eate for three hundred and ninetie dayes. 10 And thy meate that thou eatest shall haue a certaine wayght appointed, [namely] twentie sicles euery day: & from time to time shalt thou eate therof. 11 Thou shalt drinke also a certaine measure of water [namely] the sixt [part] of an Hin from tyme to tyme shalt thou drinke. 12 Barly cakes shalt thou eate, and them shalt thou bake in mans doung before their eyes. 13 And with that sayde the Lord, Euen thus shall the chyldren of Israel eate their defiled bread among the gentiles whyther I wyll cast them. 14 Then sayde I, Oh Lorde God: beholde, my soule was yet neuer stayned, for fro my youth vp vnto this houre, I did neuer eate of a dead carkase, or of that whiche was slayne of wylde beastes, neither came there euer any vncleane fleshe in my mouth. 15 Whervnto he aunswered me: Lo, I wyll graunt thee cowcasins in steede of mans doung, and thou shalt make thy bread with them. 16 And he saide vnto me, Beholde thou sonne of man, I wyll breake the staffe of bread in Hierusalem, and they shall eate their bread with waight and with care, and their water in measure and astonishment shall they drinke, 17 That they may cause a lacke of bread and water, and be astonied one at another, and be consumed in their iniquitie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cow's dung: Dried cow-dung is a common fuel in the East, as it is in many parts of England, to the present day; but the prophet was ordered to prepare his bread with human ordure, to shew the extreme degree of wretchedness to which the besieged should be exposed, as they would be obliged literally to use it, from not being able to leave the city to collect other fuel. Ezekiel 4:15

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:27 - eat Lamentations 1:11 - seek

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If Cain shalbe auenged seuen folde, truely Lamech seuentie tymes & seuen tymes.
Leviticus 26:18
And yf ye wyl not yet for all this hearken vnto me, then wyll I punishe you seuen tymes more for your sinnes:
Leviticus 26:21
And if ye walke contrarie vnto me, and wyll not hearken vnto me, I wyll bryng seuen tymes mo plagues vpon you, accordyng to your sinnes.
Leviticus 26:24
Then wyll I also walke contrarie vnto you, and wyl punishe you yet seuen tymes for your sinnes.
Leviticus 26:28
I wyll walke contrary vnto you also in indignation, and wyll chastise you seuen tymes more for your sinnes.
1 Kings 16:7
And by the hande of the prophet Iehu the sonne of Hanani, came the worde of the Lord against Baasa, and against his house, & against all the wickednesse that he did in the sight of the Lorde, in angryng him with the worke of his owne handes, that he should be like the house of Ieroboam, and because he killed him.
Psalms 59:11
Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but in thy stoutnes scatter them like vagaboundes, and put them downe O God our defence.
Psalms 79:12
And rewarde thou our neighbours seuen folde into their bosome: their blasphemie wherewith they haue blasphemed thee O God.
Proverbs 6:31
But if he may be gotten, he restoreth agayne seuen tymes as muche, or els he maketh recompence with all the good of his house.
Ezekiel 9:4
And the Lorde sayde vnto hym, Go through the citie, euen through Hierusalem, & set a marke vpon the foreheades of them that mourne, and are sory for all the abhominations that be done therin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then he said to me,.... The Lord hearkened to the prophet's prayer and argument, and makes some abatement and alteration in the charge he gave him:

lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung: that is, allowed him to make use of the one instead of the other, in baking his mingled bread:

thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith; having gathered cow's dung, and dried it, he was to burn it, and bake his bread with it, which is meant by preparing it. In some parts of our nation, where fuel is scarce, cow's dung is made use of; it is gathered and plastered on the walls of houses, and, being dried in clots, is taken and burnt.


 
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