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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 4:16 — Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
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Eze 5:16; Eze 14:13; Lev 26:26; Psa 105:16; Isa 3:1 |
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The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure. Eze 4:10,11; Eze 12:18,19; Psa 60:3; Lam 1:11; Lam 4:9,10; Lam 5:9 |
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Eze 5:16 |
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: |
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Eze 14:13 |
Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: |
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Lev 26:26 |
[And] when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver [you] your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. |
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Psa 105:16 |
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread. |
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Isa 3:1 |
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, |
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Eze 4:10 |
And thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. |
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Eze 4:11 |
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. |
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Eze 12:18 |
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; |
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Eze 12:19 |
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [and] of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. |
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Psa 60:3 |
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. |
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Lam 1:11 |
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. |
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Lam 4:9 |
[They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field. |
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Lam 4:10 |
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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Lam 5:9 |
We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Ezekiel 4:16," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Eze/4/16.html>.
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