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Ezekiel 4:9

King James Version (KJV)

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Ezekiel 4:9

Verse 9 of 17

Scripture focus

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

Ezekiel 4:9 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Ezekiel 4:9

Theological / Devotional

Wheat. The order in which the foodstuffs are listed doubtless indicates the scarcity of food in the straitness of the siege. The wheat and the barley would not be in sufficient supply to outlast the siege and would need to be mixed with the coarser foodstuffs.

Beans. See 2 Sam. 17:28.

Lentiles. See Gen. 25:29, 34; 2 Sam. 17:28.

Millet. Heb. dochan, a word occurring only here, and accurately translated “millet.”

Fitches. Heb. kussemim, the modern spelt, Triticum sativum. The bread containing a mixture of spelt would be of a rather unpalatable variety.

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