EZEKIEL CHAPTER FOUR

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• EZEKIEL CHAPTER FOUR

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OUTLINE EZEKIEL CHAPTER FOUR

• CHALDEANS SURROUND JERUSALEM V. 1-3
• EZEKIEL LIES ON HIS LEFT SIDE 390 DAYS
• AND ON HIS RIGHT SIDE 40 DAYS V. 4-8
• SIEGE OF JERUSALEM DESCRIBED V. 9-17

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READ EZEKIEL 41-3

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 1 "You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and
  lay it before you, and portray on it a city,
  Jerusalem.
• 2 Lay siege against it, build a siege wall
  against it, and heap up a mound against it set
  camps against it also, and place battering rams
  against it all around.
• 3 Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and
  set it as an iron wall between you and the city.
  Set your face against it, and it shall be
  besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.
  This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 41-3

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 1 "You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and
  lay it before you, and portray on it a city,
  Jerusalem.
• 2 Lay siege against it, build a siege wall
  against it, and heap up a mound against it set
  camps against it also, and place battering rams
  against it all around.
• 3 Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and
  set it as an iron wall between you and the city.
  Set your face against it, and it shall be
  besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.
  This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
• WHAT WAS EZEKIEL TO PORTRAY ON THE TABLET?
• JERUSALEM? A FORT? A MOUNT?
• ENEMY ENCAMPMENT? BATTERING RAMS?
• A WALL ROUND ABOUT THE CITY?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 41-3

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 1 "You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and
  lay it before you, and portray on it a city,
  Jerusalem.
• 2 Lay siege against it, build a siege wall
  against it, and heap up a mound against it set
  camps against it also, and place battering rams
  against it all around.
• 3 Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and
  set it as an iron wall between you and the city.
  Set your face against it, and it shall be
  besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.
  This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
• WHY IS THE LORD DOING THIS?
• WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUS?
• READ PSALMS 3416-17
• 16 The face of the LORD is against those who do
  evil,
• To cut off the remembrance of them from the
  earth.
• 17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears,
  And delivers them out of all their troubles. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 41-3

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• READ JEREMIAH 66
• 6 For thus has the LORD of hosts said "Cut down
  trees, And build a mound against Jerusalem. This
  is the city to be punished. She is full of
  oppression in her midst. NKJV
• WHEN DID THIS TO COME TO PASS?
• READ JEREMIAH 524-5
• 4 Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his
  reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of
  the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
  and all his army came against Jerusalem and
  encamped against it and they built a siege wall
  against it all around.
• 5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh
  year of King Zedekiah. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 44-6

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 4 "Lie also on your left side, and lay the
  iniquity of the house of Israel upon it.
  According to the number of the days that you lie
  on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
• 5 For I have laid on you the years of their
  iniquity, according to the number of the days,
  three hundred and ninety days so you shall bear
  the iniquity of the house of Israel.
• 6 And when you have completed them, lie again on
  your right side then you shall bear the iniquity
  of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on
  you a day for each year.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 44-6

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 4 "Lie also on your left side, and lay the
  iniquity of the house of Israel upon it.
  According to the number of the days that you lie
  on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
• 5 For I have laid on you the years of their
  iniquity, according to the number of the days,
  three hundred and ninety days so you shall bear
  the iniquity of the house of Israel.
• 6 And when you have completed them, lie again on
  your right side then you shall bear the iniquity
  of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on
  you a day for each year.
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND EZEKIEL TO DO?
• LIE ON HIS LEFT SIDE 390 DAYS?
• AND ON HIS RIGHT SIDE 40 DAYS?
• WHAT DID THIS REPRESENT?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 44-6

• WHAT DID LYING ON HIS SIDE REPRESENT?
• EZEKIEL REPRESENTS THE JEWS JERUSALEM?
• LYING DOWN REPRESENTS DEPRESSION?
• 390 DAYS 40 DAYS 430 DAYS LENGTH OF SIEGE?
• READ 2 KINGS 251-3 JEREMIAH 524-6

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 44-6

• WHAT DID LYING ON HIS SIDE REPRESENT?
• 390 DAYS 40 DAYS 430 DAYS LENGTH OF SIEGE?
• HOW LONG DID THE SIEGE LAST? 430 DAYS?
• READ 2 KINGS 251-3
• 1 Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his
  reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of
  the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
  and all his army came against Jerusalem and
  encamped against it and they built a siege wall
  against it all around.
• 2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh
  year of King Zedekiah.
• 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
  had become so severe in the city that there was
  no food for the people of the land. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 44-6

• HOW LONG DID THE SIEGE LAST? 430 DAYS?
• READ JEREMIAH 524-6
• 4 Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his
  reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of
  the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
  and all his army came against Jerusalem and
  encamped against it and they built a siege wall
  against it all around.
• 5 So the city was besieged until the eleventh
  year of King Zedekiah.
• 6 By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the
  month, the famine had become so severe in the
  city that there was no food for the people of the
  land.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 44-6

• HOW LONG DID THEY WANDER IN THE WILDERNESS?
• FORTY YEARS 1 YEAR FOR EACH DAY?
• READ NUMBERS 1433-35
• 33 And your sons shall be shepherds in the
  wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of
  your infidelity, until your carcasses are
  consumed in the wilderness.
• 34 According to the number of the days in which
  you spied out the land, forty days, for each day
  you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty
  years, and you shall know My rejection.
• 35 I the LORD have spoken this. I will surely do
  so to all this evil congregation who are gathered
  together against Me. In this wilderness they
  shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'"
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 44-6

• HOW LONG DID THE SIEGE LAST? 430 DAYS?
• HOW LONG DID THE JEWS SOJOURN IN EGYPT?
• 430 YEARS?
• READ EXODUS 1240-41
• 40 Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who
  lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
  
• 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four
  hundred and thirty years on that very same day
  it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD
  went out from the land of Egypt. NKJV
• READ GALATIANS 317
• 17 And this I say, that the law, which was four
  hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the
  covenant that was confirmed before by God in
  Christ, that it should make the promise of no
  effect. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 47-8

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 7 "Therefore you shall set your face toward the
  siege of Jerusalem your arm shall be uncovered,
  and you shall prophesy against it.
• 8 And surely I will restrain you so that you
  cannot turn from one side to another till you
  have ended the days of your siege.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 47-8

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 7 "Therefore you shall set your face toward the
  siege of Jerusalem your arm shall be uncovered,
  and you shall prophesy against it.
• 8 And surely I will restrain you so that you
  cannot turn from one side to another till you
  have ended the days of your siege.
• WHAT DID THE LORD WANT EZEKIEL TO DO?
• WHO WILL RESTRAIN EZEKIEL? HOW LONG?
• REMEMBER EZEKIEL 325
• 25 And you, O son of man, surely they will put
  ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you
  cannot go out among them. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 49-12

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 9 "Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans,
  lentils, millet, and spelt put them into one
  vessel, and make bread of them for yourself.
  During the number of days that you lie on your
  side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall
  eat it.
• 10 And your food which you eat shall be by
  weight, twenty shekels a day from time to time
  you shall eat it.
• 11 You shall also drink water by measure,
  one-sixth of a hin from time to time you shall
  drink.
• 12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes and bake
  it using fuel of human waste in their sight."

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 49-12

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 9 "Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans,
  lentils, millet, and spelt put them into one
  vessel, and make bread of them for yourself.
  During the number of days that you lie on your
  side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall
  eat it.
• 10 And your food which you eat shall be by
  weight, twenty shekels a day from time to time
  you shall eat it.
• 11 You shall also drink water by measure,
  one-sixth of a hin from time to time you shall
  drink.
• 12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes and bake
  it using fuel of human waste in their sight."
• HOW WOULD EZEKIEL SURVIVE 390 DAYS?
• WHAT WOULD HE EAT AND DRINK?
• HOW WOULD HE BAKE HIS BARLEY CAKES?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 49-12

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• HOW WOULD EZEKIEL SURVIVE 390 DAYS?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO JEREMIAH?
• READ JEREMIAH 3721
• 21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they
  should commit Jeremiah to the court of the
  prison, and that they should give him daily a
  piece of bread from the bakers' street, until all
  the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah
  remained in the court of the prison. NKJV
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILDREN?
• READ LAMENTATIONS 44
• 4 The tongue of the infant clings To the roof of
  its mouth for thirst The young children ask for
  bread, But no one breaks it for them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 49-12

• REMEMBER DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS?
• READ DANIEL 18-12
• 8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would
  not defile himself with the portion of the king's
  delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank
  therefore he requested of the chief of the
  eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
• 9 Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and
  goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.
• 11 So Daniel said to the steward whom the chief
  of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah,
  Mishael, and Azariah,
• 12 "Please test your servants for ten days, and
  let them give us vegetables to eat and water to
  drink. NKJV

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READ EZEKIEL 413-14

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of
  Israel eat their defiled bread among the
  Gentiles, where I will drive them."
• 14 So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never
  defiled myself from my youth till now I have
  never eaten what died of itself or was torn by
  beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into
  my mouth."

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 413-14

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of
  Israel eat their defiled bread among the
  Gentiles, where I will drive them."
• 14 So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never
  defiled myself from my youth till now I have
  never eaten what died of itself or was torn by
  beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into
  my mouth."
• WHAT WILL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL EAT?
• HOW DID EZEKIEL RESPOND?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 413

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of
  Israel eat their defiled bread among the
  Gentiles, where I will drive them."
• WHAT WILL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL EAT?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 143
• 3 You shall not eat any detestable thing.
  NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO HOSEA?
• READ HOSEA 93
• 3 They shall not dwell in the LORDS land, But
  Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat
  unclean things in Assyria. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 413

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of
  Israel eat their defiled bread among the
  Gentiles, where I will drive them."
• WHAT WILL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL EAT?
• DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL ABOUT THIS?
• READ LEVITICUS 2626
• 26 When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten
  women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they
  shall bring back your bread by weight, and you
  shall eat and not be satisfied. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 413

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of
  Israel eat their defiled bread among the
  Gentiles, where I will drive them."
• WHAT DID AHAB DO TO MICAIAH? WHY?
• READ 1 KINGS 2226-28
• 26 So the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah,
  and return him to Amon the governor of the city
  and to Joash the king's son
• 27 and say, 'Thus says the king "Put this
  fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of
  affliction and water of affliction, until I come
  in peace."'"
• 28 But Micaiah said, "If you ever return in
  peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he
  said, "Take heed, all you people!" NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 414

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 14 So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never
  defiled myself from my youth till now I have
  never eaten what died of itself or was torn by
  beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into
  my mouth."
• HOW DID EZEKIEL RESPOND?
• HOW DID PETER RESPOND TO THE LORD?
• READ ACTS 1011-16

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 414

• HOW DID PETER RESPOND TO THE LORD?
• READ ACTS 1011-15
• 11 and saw heaven opened and an object like a
  great sheet bound at the four corners, descending
  to him and let down to the earth.
• 12 In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of
  the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and
  birds of the air.
• 13 And a voice came to him, "Rise, Peter kill
  and eat."
• 14 But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have
  never eaten anything common or unclean."
• 15 And a voice spoke to him again the second
  time, "What God has cleansed you must not call
  common."

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READ EZEKIEL 415-17

• 15 Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow
  dung instead of human waste, and you shall
  prepare your bread over it."
• 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I
  will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem
  they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety,
  and shall drink water by measure and with dread,
• 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be
  dismayed with one another, and waste away because
  of their iniquity. NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 415-17

• 15 Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow
  dung instead of human waste, and you shall
  prepare your bread over it."
• 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I
  will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem
  they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety,
  and shall drink water by measure and with dread,
• 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be
  dismayed with one another, and waste away because
  of their iniquity. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD GIVE EZEKIEL? WHY?
• WOULD HIS BREAD STILL BE DEFILED?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY?

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 415-17

• 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I
  will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem
  they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety,
  and shall drink water by measure and with dread,
• 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be
  dismayed with one another, and waste away because
  of their iniquity. NKJV
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
• DID THE LORD WARN ISRAEL ABOUT THIS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2848
• 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom
  the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in
  thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything
  and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until
  He has destroyed you.

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 415-17

• 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I
  will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem
  they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety,
  and shall drink water by measure and with dread,
• 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be
  dismayed with one another, and waste away because
  of their iniquity. NKJV
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
• READ PSALMS 10516
• 16 Moreover He called for a famine in the land
  He destroyed all the provision of bread.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS EZEKIEL 417

• THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM PORTRAYED
• 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be
  dismayed with one another, and waste away because
  of their iniquity. NKJV
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JERUSALEM? WHY?
• READ 2 KINGS 253
• 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the
  famine had become so severe in the city that
  there was no food for the people of the land.
  NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 31
• 1 For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes
  away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and
  the store, The whole supply of bread and the
  whole supply of water NKJV

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