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Ezekiel 4:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around. "

Ezekiel 4:2

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1 “You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.

2 Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

3 Take for yourself an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 “Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

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Ezekiel 21:22

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Luke 19:43

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"For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,"

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Jeremiah 6:6

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"For the LORD of Armies said, “Cut down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be visited. She is filled with oppression within herself."

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Daniel 11:15

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"So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand."

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From This Chapter

Ezekiel 4:1

"“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem."

Ezekiel 4:3

"Take for yourself an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel."

Ezekiel 4:4

"“Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity."

Ezekiel 4:5

"For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel."

Ezekiel 4:6

"“Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you."

Ezekiel 4:7

"You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it."

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