Ezekiel 4:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

Ezekiel 4:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 26:39
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
Ezekiel 24:23
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel 33:10
Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

Topics

Canaan Drought Famine Hunger

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-17)

The best exposition of this part of Ezekiel’s prediction of Jerusalem’s desolation is Jeremiah’s lamentation of it, Lam. 4:3, 4; 5:10; where he pathetically describes the terrible famine that was in Jerusalem during the siege and the sad effects of it. I. The prophet here, to affect the people with the foresight of it, must confine himself for 390 days to coarse fare and short commons, and that il…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. astonied one with another--mutually regard one another with astonishment: the stupefied look of despairing want.