Ezekiel 4-6

Ezekiel Bears Israel’s Iniquity

Eze 4:5-6 LSB - 

[5] "Now I have set a number of days for you corresponding to the years of their iniquity, 390 days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 

[6] "And you shall complete these, and you shall lie down a second time, [but] on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have set it for you for forty days, a day for each year.

Making Unclean Bread

Eze 4:14 LSB - [14] But I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any offensive meat ever entered my mouth."

Act 10:14 LSB - [14] But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and unclean."

 Eze 4:16 LSB - [16] Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in desolation

Psa 105:16 LSB - [16] And He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

 

The Siege of Jerusalem

Eze 5:10 LSB - [10] 'Therefore, fathers will eat [their] sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.

Deu 28:53 LSB - [53] "Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom Yahweh your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.

 

Yahweh Will Destroy Israel’s Pagan Altars

Eze 6:8-10 LSB - 

[8] "However, I will leave a remnant, for you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the lands. 

[9] "Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been broken over their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves to their own faces for the evils which they have done, for all their abominations. 

[10] "Then they will know that I am Yahweh; I have not said in vain that I would do this [calamitous] evil against them."'