Lectionary Calendar
Friday, August 1st, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Lamentationes 4:13

MEM. Propter peccata prophetarum ejus, et iniquitates sacerdotum ejus, qui effuderunt in medio ejus sanguinem justorum.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Prayer;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dung;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fuel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Meshach;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beyond the River;   Dung;   Ezekiel;   Gestures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Fuel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Synagogue;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bread;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dispersion, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Banishment;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et dixit Dominus: Sic comedent filii Israël panem suum pollutum inter gentes ad quas ejiciam eos. Et dixi:
Nova Vulgata (1979)
Et dixit Dominus: "Sic comedent filii Israel panem suum pollutum inter gentes, ad quas eiciam eos".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Daniel 1:8, Hosea 9:3, Hosea 9:4

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:25 - an ass's head 2 Kings 18:27 - eat Isaiah 30:20 - the bread Ezekiel 4:9 - wheat Amos 7:17 - die

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said, even thus shall the children of Israel,.... Not the ten tribes only, or those who were among the other two, but all the Jews in captivity:

eat the defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them; so called, not because mixed, but baked in the above manner; which was a symbol of the defilements which they should contract upon various accounts, by dwelling among the Gentiles; so that this foretells their captivity; their pollution among the nations of the world; and that they should not be the holy people to the Lord they had been, and had boasted of. The Jews k cite this passage to prove that he that eats bread without drying his hands is as if he ate defiled bread.

k T. Bab. Sota, fol, 4. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The ceremonial ordinances in relation to food were intended to keep the nation free from idolatrous usages; everywhere among the pagan idol feasts formed a leading part in their religious services, and idol meats were partaken of in common life. Dispersion among the Gentiles must have exposed the Jews to much which they regarded as common and unclean. In Ezekiel’s case there was a mitigation Ezekiel 4:15 of the defilement, but still legal defilement remained, and the chosen people in exile were subjected to it as to a degradation.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile